Renate and Mirko halfway through their journey on the Easter Island!
Not too early and not too late we had some very quiet and relaxing time on the easter island, before we start with the second half of our journey... and we have a busy time-table and thousands of plans....
Although the weather was not too good and our time lying at the beach sunbathing reduced itself to about 73 minutes, there were other things to enjoy here: green landscape, scenic vulcano craters and last but not least the "moai" - the standing and lying stone men/-sculptures on the island.
But I would like to correct some of the prejudices and images one has from the easter islands when being in Europe (at home):
things that came to our mind when hearing "easter islands":
- sun, heat, beaches, flowers, cocktails, stone-men, short trousers and hawaii-shirts, caribian music and well formed male bodies surfing on the waves of the sea, beautiful sundowns, good and cheap fish to eat , bikini
ok and now what we can confirm and what comes to our minds now when hearing "easter islands":
-unsteady weater (which means: clouds, rainfall like the world will end now, wind and sun), winter clothes, rain in the face riding a motorbike, marvelling at the scenery on top of vulanic crater, smelling the unbelievable scent of colorful flowers opening their gigantic blossoms after the rain, hiding unter trees from the rain which caught us - again unawares -, Mirkos first open water dives in the sea, wonderful tasty fruit juices made by friendly local women, soaked clothes which dry in about 15 minutes after the rain in the strong wind, reading a book in bed while it rains outside, putting on jackes (because of the cold), putting of jackets (because of the heat) and putting on jackets again (because of the rain) within the time frame of 5 minutes, sitting on the back of pick-up-jeep happy to be taken back to the city by locals instead of walking, sitting in front of gigantic moais waiting for the sun to set and contemplating about what has happened here in former times ....
a bit different from what we have expected... but a nice, wonderful island with a great athmosphere and very friendly people and wonderful nature and culture.... in one word.. we enjoyed it very much!
Kisses, Renate & Mirko
1 comment:
All I can say is WOW!!! What a journey and the pics are incredible! That Glacier was awesome (proper use of word - not American use). Makes me wanna pack my bag and hit the road - only I have 2 hours left in 'work' ....remember that?!? or does that term hold no meaning anymore. I always wanted to see Easter Island - more stoned heads than Amsterdam! Well good luck with the rest of your adventure and I hope you used those Ginger nuts Sparingly - me thinks that that could have been why your backpack was so heavy on your 8 day trek :o) Slan, Mark
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