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So we arrived to this tiny Easter Island (around 160 sq km) at Midday and we had exactly 24 hours before our flight back to Chile. Sun was working for us with late sunset and early sunrise, which means more daylight for pictures, less time for sleep. We rented a motorbike, got the map and went exploring.
In couple of next hours we were driving around the island and stopping by every statue of Moai. We got wet during short thunderstorm, we got dry at Anakena beach, swam in Pacific ocean and then got flat tire! Right couple of minutes before our final stop of the day - at Ahu Tahai, where we were told is the best sunset view (and the only Moai statue with eyes)!
With the help of very nice local people we still were able to watch beautiful sunset over the ocean but guess what - at wrong place! This fake statue (on pic) made for tourists (the real ones are massive and you can’t touch them) confused us and the real Ahu Tahai was standing just couple of minutes walking from us! When we realised our mistake, sun was already below the horizon.
Even though at that time we were really upset (and flat tire on the remote island is really an expensive thing!), now we are laughing. Because even the worst experience become a funny story with time. And so we travel to turn to storytellers, don’t we?
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Easter Island
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Did you know? There are many Moai statues hidden under the oceans surrounding Easter Island.
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The Moai are monolithic human figures carved by the Rapa Nui people on Easter Island in eastern Polynesia between the years 1250 and 1500. Nearly half are still at Rano Raraku, the main moai quarry, but hundreds were transported from there and set on stone platforms called ahu around the island's perimeter. Almost all moai have overly large heads three-eighths the size of the whole statue.
The moai are chiefly the living faces (aringa ora) of deified ancestors (aringa ora ata tepuna). The statues still gazed inland across their clan lands when Europeans first visited the island in 1722, but all of them had fallen by the latter part of the 19th century. The production and transportation of the more than 900 statues are considered remarkable creative and physical feats.
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The tallest moai erected, called Paro, was almost 10 metres (33 ft) high and weighed 82 tonnes (90.4 short tons). The heaviest moai erected was a shorter but squatter moai at Ahu Tongariki, weighing 86 tonnes.
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La isla de Rapa Nui es más famosa por tener casi 1.000 estatuas monumentales, llamadas moai, creadas por los primeros habitantes de Rapa Nui. En 1995, la UNESCO nombró a la Isla de Pascua Patrimonio de la Humanidad, con gran parte de la isla protegida dentro del Parque Nacional Rapa Nui.
Aunque el significado sea incierto todavía, una teoría muy popular dice los moai fueron tallados como representes de los ancestros muertos para dejarles proyectar su poder sobrenatural sobre los descendientes
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Easter Island is most famous for its nearly 1,000 monumental statues, called moai, created by the early Rapa Nui people. In 1995, UNESCO named Easter Island a World Heritage Site, with much of the island protected within Rapa Nui National Park.
Although the meaning is still unconfirmed, a very popular theory says that the moai were crafted as representatives of the dead ancestors to allow them to project their supernatural power over their descendants
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Using basalt stone picks, the Easter Island Moai were carved from the solidified volcanic ash of Rano Raraku volcano.
They are all monolithic, the carvings are created in one piece of an average weight of 20 tons! Once completed, the statues were then moved from the quarry to their intended site and erected on an ‘ahu’ platform.
Many Moai are still standing on the slopes of Rano Raraku volcano. These statues were still under construction... waiting to be finished... But what stopped the process all of sudden?
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