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Via Santiago (Again)
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My Easter Island adventure is over too soon. But there is one last hurrah... My phome alarm is set for 6am but I am eager and awake 10 minutes beforehand. Five of scurry around the hostel with torches and make for Mahina´s rented 4x4. We are drivinbg to Tongariki, the 15 moai, to watch the sunrise.
40 minutes later we are waiting in anticipation, along with a scattering of other tourists. The sunrise isn´t the best, the aspect and orientation is not generous with the sun actually rising behind a nearby headland. But nonetheless to see those 15 giant figures gradually rendered as silhouettes is not something I´ll forget anytime soon. This is one rude awakening that I suspect Andrew, Kati, Kay, Mahina and myself will never rergret. Fantastic apart from the German guy who broke rank, went too forward and became the 16th moai. Still I managed to use his figure to comic effect in one of my photos.
Back at the hostel I said my goodbyes after breakfast (pancakes again today - result). And it was soon 9.15am and time for the transfer. Colin and I queued for some time as the cases were searched by hand, the airport scanner had broken down. Colin and I spoke with Australian David, from my half day tour and also met numerous times when my full day tour converged on the same site as his. I figured the law must have been closing in on serial killer man, as he was also lurking at the airport with his mother in tow.
The flight was delayed, a first for LAN Chile (and I´m not being fecicious) but we were back in Santiago, and the Holiday Inn by 8.30pm. Colin and I ate at a place called Gatsbys in the airport terminal and then returned to the hotel bar for a couple of beers to mark the end of his holiday. In bed by half twelve. I had a train to ctach in the morning, another early start, just what I needed, lovely.
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