We arrived looking for sun and relaxation, but that was stronger than our desire to understand the intriguing past of this enigmatic island. And Anakena was where this story began with the arrival of the first thousand years ago Ariki
The view of the city surrounded by impressive and covered by dense jungle hills slopes can not be described with simple words. Before trying to do it, I prefer to incite the reader to visit this magical place.
One thing caught my attention: English naturalist claimed to have slept in a large house that was about a hundred years old when he passed by the place. Rare, because for the early eighteenth century had hardly Uruguay population and ranches of the time were of adobe.
I stood in the center of the square, interested in how the place had changed little over those 400 years. I smiled when I remembered the newsprint happened José Moreno Carbonero, the painter's famous painting.
It is close to Buenos Aires, has nice restaurants and lots of history to see and feel, ideal for a getaway. It is a place that reflects very well what happened in the pampas of Argentina.
Was using a very short trip to Rio de Janeiro to follow one of my favorite pastimes: compare an old drawing with the current reality. In my hands was a copy of the engraving artist Beagle, Augustus Earle, performed in 1833.
"Rain in the desert? It can not be much ", thought. We travel. Maybe I should have worried when we passed a place where the water had been part of the way. We travel.