Easter Island Day 4

Our day started with an early wake up for sunrise at Ahu Tongariki. We got there with plenty of time (one might say a bit too much). We waited an hour and watched the sky gradually change until the time we knew the sun would pop over the horizon. Unfortunately there were some low clouds, so we waited a bit longer and saw the sun briefly peak out from behind the clouds. After a few more pictures, we got back in the van and made our way back to the hostel.

Being Sunday, our hostel owner recommended we visit the church to see the service so we walked over to the church and made it just in time for the mass to start. It was a very interesting hybrid: the prayers, readings, and homily were all in Spanish, but the songs were all in the native island language, rapa nui. After we left the church we popped next door to the artisan market. Not many stalls were open so we decided to come back later.

Once we got back to the hostel, we had some breakfast and decided to take a nap after getting up pretty early for sunrise. Unfortunately our nap turned into a sleep because neither of us remembered to set an alarm 🙈. I woke up first and made some quick (late) lunch and got Allan up. We did some admin with the rest of the afternoon because we missed the open times for the market.

We took a longer walk after dinner to Mirador Hanga Kioe to see the sunset. We picked up a couple of cheap beers on the way. At the lookout spot, there was one moai, it also wasn't far from Tahai where we went last night. It was a pretty disappointing sunset with lots of clouds covering the sun and pretty much no color either, but at least it was a unique location and we had alright beer. We walked past Tahai moai and past the twinkling cemetery again on our way back.Read more