19:30 - The flight left on time from Santiago this morning. As there are only 2 flights a day operated by LAN to Easter Island, the plane was full and I hadn't managed to secure a window seat the night before, so ended up on a corridor. The flight itself is just over 5 hours, unfortunately for me, for 5 of those hours, the three babies sitting 2 rows away, cried...without ever stopping... (or so it seemed). So sleeping was not as restful as it might have been! We...

00:00 - I spent this morning on Copacabana beach relaxing and people watching. At around 12 I went back to the hotel to shower and check out. Pick up for the airport was not until 3.30 so I did some last minute shopping (I am keeping the shopping to a minimum due to a space and weight if luggage situation :-) ) and spent an hour in a cyber cafè filling out an online form for background checks for my new employer (not really fun but had to be done). The driver an...

23:30 - After choosing not to go walking today, the options were clear: do nothing all day or attempt to go horseriding. After breakfast, David, Linda and older Peter went off with Isabel and Toby to the harder walk to the base of the towers. 2 other couples went on an easier walk and were eventually joined and overtaken by Tina and her brother Peter. Me and Lisa wondered over to the hotel 15 minutes away from our lodge to ask about horseriding. When we got there...

22:20 - Crisp and sunny weather today. We all met after breakfast with our guide Isabel for our walk to the Cuernas. A rock formation supposedly looking like horns. Sunitta came along and we thought she wouldn't make it but she did, even if slowly. She kept up a long way behind us with Toby helping her out. It was 16km in total in mixed terrain...a bit up and a bit down, with a steep final hill to the place where we had lunch before coming back. The scenery is ob...

22:00 - Not really sure what to say about today...we met at 9am to go to the supermarket and get some food for lunch and snacks for our 3 nights in Torres del Paine. Of course Toby hadn't checked and as it was Sunday the supermarket was still closed, so we trotted back and moved our departure by a half hour and tried again at 10. We all got some food and went back to load the minibus. The minibus was a little too tight for such a large group. The luggage just abo...