Our flight last night started at 10:00pm. After arriving at the airport in Quito a few hours early to check in, we waited for our flight to depart. Our flight left on time and we arrived in Santiago in the morning, waited a couple of hours for our connecting flight to Easter Island, and landed at around noon.
Arriving in Easter Island was a little culture shock, as it wasn't already in the previous cities we visited. However, everyone there was extremely nice and although some only knew how to speak Spanish, we got around pretty well. We arrived at our hotel and had some minor miscommunication with the tours we had booked but it all eventually got sorted out.
We settled in and since we didn't have any tours planned for today, we decided to head out to town to roam around. As you'll see in the pictures, the area is pretty rural, with chickens running around and wild horses too! The Island's only town, Hanga Roa, has a population of 5,000 people...and there's an estimate of 4,000 wild horses! The Island has so much history and facts that 1) I can't even remember and 2) whatever I do remember there's just too much to talk about.
After 10 minutes of walking, we were in town. Again, everyone there is really nice, so some locals from the shops we went into helped us get around. We had a map in hand so it made it easy to get around the little town. After having lunch, we popped in a few stores to do some window shopping, and also grabbed some groceries like cookies and bread because for some reason we thought we'd be starving later on that night. Also, we have a thing about going into grocery stores in other countries just to see what type of products they have. We took our time in the town to just relax and take in the fresh air and ocean views from the harbour. At around 500pm, we made our way back and just got ready for the next day. I wasn't feeling that well, actually, so I was in bed by 7ish.
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| Landing in Easter Island. |
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| Walking into down; it would often rain for a few minutes and then the sun would be out, and repeat |
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| The famous statues here in Easter Island, called Moai, aren't protected that well. You can simply walk up to it and give it a hug if you wanted to because it's in its natural state and no walls or barriers surround it, other than some signs and rocks. It's actually against the law to go past a certain point; we witnessed a couple who were obviously tourists walk up right beside the Moai and were stopped by the police. They were actually taken into the police car and they drove away! |
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| The harbour at the town; we sat here and just watched people boogie board, learn how to surf, and workers coming in and out of land on those boats to a much bigger fishing boat to gather fresh fish. |
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