So we leave the Island for the continent we arrived from 10 days before. Early in the morning we head to the airport which is just few hundreds meters away from the guesthouse, but Oscar is driving us there since he has to pick up some new lucky people.
A new day of exploration in front of us, since it was coldish yesterday I felt like putting on long pants today…turned out: hot like hell hiking up the volcano! First a few km to get around the airport, then we start a path up the Rano Kau crater and the Orongo national park. The path to the top is kind of steep, but the view of the island from the top of the volcano is pretty nice! The crater is now full of different floating plants and will remain like that until the ocean digs through its edge, turning it into a lagoon. The national park is a conservation of old stone houses the native population used during the final period before colonization, and look quite advanced for that time!
Today we need to get up relatively early in order to make it to our full-day tour of the island. It helps a lot with the great breakfast that Oscar prepares: fresh tropical fruits, avocado, toast, marmalade and, juice blended on the spot. Prepared for a warm and sunny day we instead get a pretty windy and cold one, but the temperature here doesn’t get so extreme and it’s impossible to feel uncomfortable.