Ia ora na and a booty call

Okay so we are now a third of the way towards new Zealand on Easter Island, Rapa Nui or Isla de Pascua whichever you want to call it.

Plane was delayed a bit so plans for museum had to be put off but never mind it doesn't seem that long since we did a museum anyway.

We were met at the airport by our campsite staff and presented with our garland of flowers. All very Polynesian and then taken to our Hostal/campsite which is right on the coast we found the tourist info office, bought a map and went off in search of dinner.
Ia ora na means hello in Rapa Nui by the way. The ancient language is actually Rongo Rongo but that is all heiroglyphs and no-one knows what they say anymore.

So why the "booty call" part of the title? Well the guide book said that one thing you had to do while here was see a traditional dance show so we found one. Beyonce would be proud of the bum wiggling that these girls can do. not sure they knew how zoomed in the little Japanese mans camera in front of us was though!

The men were actually wearing less than the women (who were basically in bikini tops and grass skirts of various designs. All the men had on was a kind of g string with a sporran on the front (well one shy bloke had a flap at the back as well). This was especially interesting when some bloke handed one of the men some money Martyn said "oh no...." I said "hmmmm, where is he going to put that?" and the lady next to me (who I had no idea spoke English) just guffawed. Watched what I said for the rest of the evening I can tell you!

Anyway it was very interesting with a little display at the start showing how they uses to make all their clothes etc and in terms of lack of clothing it definitely had something for all the over 18s in the family!

And a big plus - we managed to stay awake for the whole thing.

Honestly though as is always the way I think the best thing was on the way to the dance show when we heard some music, saw a crowd, wandered in and met up with what must have been half of Hanga Roa doing some kind of polynesian line dancing. Great fun.