Day 60 - Dealing with dodgy taxi drivers

Easter Island to Santiago

This morning at breakfast we met a couple who were staying 8 days on the island - that's what you call relaxing especially as they had already been there two days and were yet to see a Moai! How that could be possible we weren't sure as they are everywhere, especially around the town.

Come get your leis here...

We were driven to the airport to wait for our plane, the airport was tiny so we sat outside watching the woman lei sellers doing a huge trade with all the hotel cars arriving to collect new tourists. Our plane arrived and we watched as the arriving tourists were greeted with their leis - another plane load in, another plane load out. Many people posed for photos in front of the fake airport statutes - now that we are Easter Island experts we can differentiate between the real ones and the copies - plus you would be in big trouble if you sat on the edge of one like us and lots of others were doing!

Get off that statue now!

We'd been to Santiago so many times now that we were old hands at getting the shuttle bus from the airport, then the taxi from the bus station. We did have some trouble with the taxis though this time - the first one decided he didn't know where we were headed and made us get out of the cab, the second one decided he'd try to take us for a bit of ride. Fortunately the combination of Google maps and having been here before foiled his evil plan, we were able to direct him to the precise spot he needed to drop us at, back at the same apartment complex we'd stayed at just before going to Easter Island.

The apartment was right in the centre of the Lastarria district, which is a great location as we had plenty of restaurants to chose from for dinner just a minute or so from our apartment, even at 11pm.