January 5, 2011 We had seen all the most important archeological sites on the island and gotten an excellent explanation of it all from Christophe, Wikipedia and Steven Fischer (author of the book I read about the island´s history). We had therefore decided to use our last day here on read more…

January 4, 2011 After a brakfast with baguette, ham, cheese and jam we started our day at 9am again with Cristophe taking us to Orongo. Orongo was the venue of the tangata-manu, the annual birdman competition. From about 1760 to 1878 Easter Island´s ruler for the next year would be read more…

January 3, 2011 After a great breakfast Christophe was ready to give us a full day tour of the island at 9 am. I had chosen Cabanas Christophe because Christophe had a very god reputation on TripAdvisor and because he gave private guided tours in French at an unbeatable price. read more…

January 2, 2011 I woke up at 07:44am when Helene shouted to me that we had overslept. I had been updating the blog until 4:30 in the morning, so it took quite a while to boot my brain. I could not understand how it was possible. The last thing I read more…