FUN:travel – Easter Island, Chile – Day 4
March 5, 2013 by Susan Clarke
The ABC’s of Chile
A = Awesome
B = Bummer
C = Celebration
Ahu Tehai
Day 29 – Wednesday, February 27 – Easter Island, Chile – sunny, clouds, cooler, rain
- 10:45 – walk to town – see church & mercado artisanal (local handicrafts)
- B – really expensive
- 12:50 – downpour, only lasts 10 mins
- A – stop @ post office for stamps & stay dry – young lady helping us speaks such good
- English – ask her where she learned it & responded “Rancho Cucamonga, CA” – she moved here to live w/her father and really likes it
- A – ice cream cone break before lunch
- 1:30 – picnic on waterfront (skies still look threatening)
- 1:45 – back to Ahu Tehai for more pictures w/different light perspectives
- 3:15 – arrive back to Puku Vai hotel
- A – open front door & slider for wonderful breeze – only use AC @ night
- A – there are no bugs!
- 7:45 – dinner – Kotara again – garlic beef, stir fry vegetables & rice (same appetizer of raw fish salad, cucumber, carrot, sweet vinegar dressing – miso soup) – Carménère is house wine $5 a glass – the food & service is great & half the price of other restaurants in town! (couple we’d seen on Monday is there for the 3rd time too)
FF – (FUN-fact) – It’s one of the most remote inhabited islands in the world and a long way to the middle of nowhere. It’s 2200 miles from Chile, takes 5 hours by plane, and 5 days by ship.
More FF – It’s 15 miles long by 7.5 miles at the widest and a total of 63 square miles.
Rano Raraku Volcano