Chile

November 19, 2008

Chile & family

23:52 ByMiek InAround the world 2008-2009
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A big advantage of traveling around the world for a year is that you miss all the new movies, which makes the inflight entertainment system on a long flight suddenly immensely interesting. Thanks to LAN (Tahiti – Easter Island and Easter Island – Santiago), we now at least have seen Wall-e, Erwin has seen the […]

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November 9, 2008

Rapa Nui, Ile de Pâques, Isla de Pascua or Easter Island

22:25 ByErwin InAround the world 2008-2009
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What’s in a name? Dutch VOC admiral Jacob Roggeveen arrived on Easter Sunday in 1722 at the tiny remote piece of land in the South Pacific that we now commonly know as Easter Island. In his journal he recorded that lands were neatly cultivated, there were whole tracts of woodland, the population was as large […]

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