We have set up two days of touring. As everyone on the island - tourists that is - all go to the same place, we've joined a group to tour the Moais. So we are the second pickup the first day and then drive around to many other hotels picking up one or two people or small groups. Shows us there are a lot of hotels around and a lot looking far more interesting than ours and in better locations although ours isn't terrible. Finally we are ...

How cool is that! Not something that I had planned but it just worked out that way. We had been driving back to Santiago for our flight, which is about 6 hours long, and gotten into Easter Island yesterday. Our guide took us for a short drive through Hanga Roa before taking us to our hotel which was one block up and across the street from the airport. Not the best of locations because it was a little over a mile into town - not that it was a large t...

An actual day all to ourselves with no tour and no schedule. Can't complain since I set up this whole trip but we have been getting tours almost every day so this is a nice one to have a "do whatever we want day". We attempt to eat breakfast out on the deck but the breeze whipping up from the sea is a bit too chilly so we move inside. Some others are much braver or thicker skinned than us and do eat outside. Wonderful hotel, wonderful breakfast. ...

Our guide and driver fetched us this morning for a drive around Santiago and dropping off downtown to wander the streets and look at the buildings and such. Santiago is another capital city and we enjoyed being there but one day was enough for us. Our guide pointed out various parks and restaurants to us, as if we could remember them or how to get to them later. We walked through the main parts of the city, saw the Cathedral, map of the early city in bronze, ...

This particular blog is for Sci Fi fans / perhaps Sci Reality fans. Flying into Buenos Aires, we were picked up by our guide and taken to our hotel. As it was fairly early in the morning, they had thought perhaps we'd take a nap or something before going out for a tour of the city in the afternoon. no,no,no. Can't do that if you want to avoid jet lag. We'd made sure we had our room available in the morning so we could take a shower. Not happy to arrive so...