Easter Island, day 2May 2, 2010
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| We slept in until 8:30 and after a nice, leisurely breakfast we went to see for the first time the famed Moai, the stone heads that make the island such a tourist attraction. Our tour guide was a native Rapanuian and had a distinctive way of speaking. He had a very good accent, but stressed the wrong syllables or unimportant words sometimes. As we visited different sites looking at the Moai we came across several signs that just said "NO↑". I thought they were funny, but apparently the laws are pretty strict about touching the Moai. You can be fined several thousand dollars and spend some time in jail. We visted the dormant volcano Rano Raraku from which the Moai were carved, saw one of the oldest Moai which "looks like a monkey, no?", and climbed a very muddy slope to the crater of the volcano. We had the rest of the afternoon free. Hope and I had a craving for chocolate, so we walked to a corner store and paid $4 for a bar of milk chocolate with almonds. |
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