Tahiti from Peru

We had a night in Lima - the capital of Peru and with 9m people. We had dinner overlooking the pacific coast looking towards where we were headed the next day. We got up early and headed for the airport. Again we had a problem with our RTW ticket but luckily Pedro from LAN was there to help us and sort it out. We flew from Lima to Santiago in Chile - as we flew into Santiago we saw the huge range of snowy mountains - the Andes - which looked amazing - another visit another day. We had a 4 hour wait for the the next plane to Easter island and then onto Tahiti - both 6 hour flights!! We landed in Easter Island - where the Dumdum statue is from if you have seen "A night in the museum". Easter Island is part of Chile and it was the first ever island to be abandoned years ago as the tribes spent all their time building people statues to the gods to be better than the next tribe that they used all the wood/trees to do this and thus all the animals disappeared and they had nothing to eat so they had to abandon the island!! We arrived in Tahiti at 11.30pm (4.30pm our real time) and so we had been travelling all day - 23 hours! And now 11 hours behind the UK.

We arrived at the hotel and slept late in our hut rooms built on stilts over the sea - we had always wanted to try them and we would highly recommend them. We were in Tahiti for 3 days and with very poor internet access (will catch up with the photos when we next get good internet access as each one takes an hour to load!!).

The hotel was just what we needed after a very busy 3 and a bit weeks touring in South America. We just chilled, swam in the pool and snorkelled with amazing fish and slept and prepared ourselves mentally to be in one place and school for 6 weeks in Rarotonga. I hope that life is this enjoyable in the South pacific all over!! And off we went to Rarotonga and to visit the Cook islands........