Easter Island

Chile, Argentina & Uruguay: Day 4 (Part 4)

January 6, 2011
In case you missed my first, second, and third stops on the island, click here, here, and here.  Around the next corner of our walk I am certain you can guess what lay ahead, more Moai! Alicia talked in great detail about the history of the statues and the different...

Chile, Argentina & Uruguay: Day 4 (Part 3)

January 4, 2011
In case you missed my first and second stops on the island, click here and here.  Alicia, my tour guide/soul sister, and I continued on our drive.  In the distance, I spotted some mountains and was surprised to see them, since the scenery had been quite flat thus far. As...

Chile, Argentina & Uruguay: Day 4 (Part 2)

December 28, 2010
In case you missed my first stop on the island, click here.  The next stop on Alicia's tour was of course more Moai and more views of the ocean.  I have never in all of my travels seen waves as big as I saw that day.  I did not know...

Chile, Argentina & Uruguay: Day 4 (Part 1)

December 23, 2010
Oh, to be back in the South Pacific again and swaddled in nostalgia’s rosy glow! It had been three years since I had been in this part of the world and I definitely felt like I had left a little piece of my heart there on my last trip.  What...

Chile, Argentina & Uruguay: Day 3

December 22, 2010
Before my evening flight to Easter Island, Kyle and Emily took me on a quick tour of downtown Santiago.  After brunch, we set off to visit most of the major sites and at some of them I was able to witness the recent earthquake damage.  Emily wrote an in depth...