Now back to our regularly scheduled travel posts! The next two will be fairly brief in comparison. Aren’t you pleased?! The afternoon of January 27 we left Easter Island for the 9 hour flight to Samoa, crossing the International Date line along the way. As we noted earlier, the flights don’t seem as long asRead more
We are just over halfway through this trip, even though my posts are not caught up yet. We just left Myanmar (Burma) after three fabulous days and are en route to Agra, India and the Taj Mahal. We’ve had almost no WiFi while there, so I haven’t been able to post Easter Island, Samoa, andRead more
That evening we had a cocktail party with the crew, a lecture from our island experts, and then a presentation of traditional Rapa Nui Islander dances. It wasn’t easy to capture the movement. The following morning there was a sunrise photo shoot at Tongariki, which I thought about doing but opted to pass because itRead more
After Ahu Tahai we visited my favorite site, Ranu Raraku, the quarry where all Moai were carved. It was beyond incredible to see some of the 359 Moai that never left the hillside where they were created. Some were so large and heavy that they never made it out of the quarry! This is theRead more
Welcome to Easter Island, the world’s most isolated inhabited island. The island received its name from the Dutch East India Company explorers, the first European visitors, who arrived on Easter Sunday in 1722. It is believed that Tahitian sailors gave the island the name Rapa Nui in the 1860s. Today the island is settled byRead more