The current 2023 trip, has been a long time in the planning. Myself and 3 mates are heading for Antarctica and South America.
Posts in reverse order below.
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Sunrise tour to the 15 Moai at Toŋariki. Picked up at 6am. The tsunami of 1960 here knocked over the Moai – previously there were 21 evidently and some were broken too badly for repair. Yesterday on our tour we learnt that the restoration at Toŋariki was funded by the Japanese. They had been loaned
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Mary’s birthday. We surprised her with gifts and the staff arranged a candle in a breaky mousse and sang Happy Birthday and something in Rapa Nui. A full bus load this morning for our full day tour of Rapa Nui. Half Spanish speakers half English. Luis our bus drivers is taking care of the former
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Breakfast with views over the bay. Lots of sweet pies and mousse type options. The pancakes were just like Mum used to make. Poached egg was good too. Today our paperwork says a full day tour but Isabelle, our guide. tells us it’s two half day tours today and a full day tomorrow. As always
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A late arrival into Santiago last night, into Central CBD with driver Juvenal and guide Carolina. We were a bit dismayed at the state of the city, there was graffiti everywhere and the place looked depressing. Our hotel Fundador is quite old and we have a large room with a king and single – very
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Early start with another missed hotel breaky. 6:30am pick up by Juvenal and Carolina. To the airport for our 9:05 five hour flight to Easter Island. Carolina came in and assisted us to print our own bag tags. We had to complete a registration online and then have all details ready for the PDI (immigration
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Transfer to airport due at 8am, so breaky (quite nice at this is hotel) and into our bus to the nearby Domestic Airport for our international flight to Santiago, Chile. We rocked up to check in (as we’d once again had trouble with Aerolineas Argentina site) only to learn that our flight number didn’t exist
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A veritably late start to our day this morning with our half day city tour and Tigre Delta cruise not kicking off till 10. Our guide Claudia and driver, Pablo arrived close to our scheduled 10am pick up. We had a small 20 seater Mercedes bus just for us. Claudia was an absolute font of
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Pick up 6:30am for 10:05am flight. Said our goodbyes to Steve at the hotel. Check in with two paying overweight baggage! (None of which are me!) Then breaky and some tech time at the airport. Actually boarded and took off early and landed 20 minute early. A good flight, sat next to a Dad and
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Last night we decided to ditch the Macuco cruise we had planned as we think it’s similar to the boat ride we did yesterday. We swapped it for the Parque de Aves. This was easily arranged by Mary, via What’s App at drinks with Iemanja, the tour co, with confirmation from Ripioturismo. We were ready
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Beto (Elvis) was our guide. With a 6:15 pick up which was a little late as he slept in and car wouldn’t start. Man, what a way to spend a birthday! We were in a Ford Ranger Ute today and started with a coffee and pastry at a local servo. Nice as we were too
Travel adventures with Nicola & co. 