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Sixteen hours of flying we finally touched down in a new continent.....knackered and very confused after living the whole day again in proper sliding doors style and going from being 11 hours ahead of home to being 4 hours behind!!
Everyone is super friendly and helpful....at least we think so as we cannot speak a word of Spanish and our attempts to learn it up to now has proved to rather feeble!
Celebrated our arrival with a cheeky traditional Pisco sour, a little like tequila and just as lethal, and a taster of local brew Kunstmann beer.......great name, rubbish beer.
Had an amazing result on our flight to Easter Island.....free upgrade to first class, not business, but full-on first class!! Just five seats! We got lie flat beds, remote controlled lumbar massage, our own personal steward and free socks. Needless to say, we took full advantage much to the disgust of the bone fide couple across the aisle who would not even meet our eye!!! Ha Ha Ha.
Easter Island is amazing.....it really is in the middle of the ocean and looks like a total desert island, all very green with volanoes and hills and huge waves! And the airport is the smallest we have ever landed at, just one runway where the plane lands, then turns round and taxis back to the 'terminal'! It was great when we walked through because everyone was met with people hanging flower garlands round our necks!!
Spent a wonderful week celebrating with all the locals at their annual festival and hired a jeep to visit all the weird stone statues dotted all over the island. All very surreal!! Watched a traditional dance festival of locals in grass skirts and playing drums and went to the strangest race we have ever witnessed....
The race was held inside a dormant volcano and involved rowing reed boats and lots of swimming but also a sprint round the edge by fit young men wearing nothing more than teeny tiny loin clothes and bizarrely carrying bunches of bananas!
Went to an free island community BBQ feast where we were given a plastic bag full of random bits of cooked bits of cow, sweet potatoes and whole halves of melon....well tasty! Also tried the local delicacy of cerviche...raw tuna marinated in lemon.....our first time for uncooked fish since massively over indulging in Japan!
Spent the last few days chilling out at the beach and managed to squeeze in yet another dive! This was our deepest so far....22 metres.....and the clearest and most bluest yet....we could see up to 35 metres which was pretty frightening seeing that far below us!
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