Second trip for me to Easter Island. We are dead because the flight is leaving at 00h30 and lasts 5 hours, you get to Hanga Roa at 10h30 not at all ready to start visiting the island. At the airport, the security team is checking whether the newcomers have the swine influenza, if one would get it on this island of 4000 souls it could get pretty ugly very fast. You get picked up at the airport and you have a few hours to rest before going sight seeing, if not for this we would probably be sleeping non-stop the whole afternoon.
Today we visit the Rano Kau volcano, a long time ago its crater used to be the main source of drinkable water of the island, women would climb down the slopes with small buckets and bring the water back to their villages (it would mean many many return trips). They would also use the water in the crater to clean the clothes, would you see yourself climbing up and going down a 50 or 60 degrees slope while carrying some things.
When you find yourself on that side of the volcano and and you face the bird island, you really get the feeling that earth is a disc and not a globe. I wonder if the Rapa Nui were thinking the same thing when then were climbing down the cliff and swimming to get the bird egg on the bird island or if the only thing interesting for them was their island.
On Saturday, i will see the bird island closer as i will be diving along its shores; here you can see as far as 60 meters underwater, it should be very interesting.
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