Rano Kau Easter Island

A five hour flight sepparates Chile from this mythical land. Easter Island is one of the most isolated places on Earth and probably the most remote inhabited island. Their closest neighbours live on the Pitcairn Islands, about 1900 km away. The island has only 3000 people and there are more wild horses than people on this island.

Lying …

... to the sound of the waves crashing against rocks not 10m from our tent. Andrew Edit - It had been a great day and a great introduction to Easter Island, our Polynesian stop, the sunset was just as amazing as the sunrise however Erica, was fast ...

... the US and Canada over the next few months. You can follow his travels here, as well as watch some of his videos from Easter Island: Drew's Walkabout Drew and I rented push-bikes (one day we biked around the entire island in eight hours, it's that ...

... be Atlantis!) and the short ears from the Marquesas islands. It`s also thought that the Maoris from New Zealand are descendents from Easter Island. The early settlers called the island "Te Pito O Te Henua" (Navel of The World). And Patricio took us to ...

... left a bit of a bitter taste in our mouth so we were really looking forward to experience the mysteries of the statues at Easter Island. Flying across the Pacific we had a fair bit of turbulence, with the Captain flicking on the seatbelt sign a number ...

... of the Rano Kau Crater and  Orongo ceremonial village.  The tour first took us to the Rano Kau volcanic crater. This crater is simply beautiful with green and blue color water filled with marsh. The is an extinct volcano ...

... . He met his girlfriend on the Island and she has finally moved in with him from their long distance relationship between Easter Island and Santiago. He speaks fluent French, English and Spanish and undertakes our guide in English and Spanish. His ...

... return to this tropical island 4000 km from anywhere else.    So far we had flown from Santiago de Chile to Rapa Nui (Easter Island), 3600 km from the South American continent.  Now we were flying from Rapa Nui to Tahiti, which ...

... the cows and horses here are so bad that the meat tastes just a dry and hard and milk is not really produced. So Easter Island still depends on Chile for its supplies. That is why everything is so pricy on the island. As I reached Rano Raraku, the taxi ...

After reading and seeing so many stories, I visit Easter Island was a long-cherished dream. Finally came the moment when, under our feet was over the Pacific Ocean water of infinite and appeared green a territory full of cones (70 say) and surrounded by ...

Iorana from Easter Island. It's been a busy and fascinating few days here. We've walked up the volcano of Rano Kau to visit the ancient ceremonial village of the Birdman cult and seen its petroglyphs, then we've travelled around the island seeing ...