Sunday 31 December 2006

RAPA NUI (CHILE)







Going to one of the most isolated places in the world we had to put up with the ordinary you even get at home. Drunkenness. The owner of our campsite "Jimmy" ( because he looked like Hendrix) was really nice and chatty at first, then he had a few to much from time to time and at the end you never saw him sober again. One evening we even had to carry him back home from town. But not like everyone else he was thinking of going to bed, he took all his clothes off and jumped in the swimming pool. It looked like he was drowning so we run after him to pull him out. To our surprise he was pissed off with us interfering him in his breathing exercise.

Rapa Nui is of cause famous for his moais. Laying or standing, broken or fixed, we saw many of them. We also finally went for our first swim in the ocean. Going around the island is pretty cheap because all locals give you lifts in their pick-ups. We even got driven once by someone from the municipal and got offered beer in the car too.

All in all people from Easter Island are the most friendliest we met so far on our trip and it was worth the money.

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