Rano Raraku 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.

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Greetings from the town of Hanga Roa, Rapa Nui (aka Easter Island) Well, this certainly wasn't part of the plan! In fact I'm now on about plan J I reckon, plans A to I having fallen by the wayside, but this is one big vote for maintaining ...

... .  At Orongo village we had to pay the national park fee which gets you in two the two main sites on the island – here and Rano Raraku the moai quarry.  Andrew was going to try the old I’m a Chilean national trick but the ranger was ...

... camp where we ended up having the same chorizo and red wine pasta as last night, we also drank a mammoth amount of red wine, Easter Island has a reputation for being scandalously expensive, at £2 for a litre and a half of red wine (that is a real ...

... 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 ...

... rugged coastline, the statues with their backs to the crashing waves standing watch over a village that had long since disappeared. Easter Island is a unique place and it was a priviledge to visit an island with such a mysterious and often unexplained ...

I don't think I've ever been to a place that's so isolated than Easter Island, or Rapa Nui as it's called by the locals. It was quite amusing seeing our flight path from Tahiti - it was literally from one dot to another and the rest of the screen was ...

... 1992 after a tidal wave knocked them far in land in 1960. Check out the shots...absolute gold. After this we walked around Rano Raraku where the moai where carved from the volcanic rock. Here are hundred of moai, some still in the process of being ...

... . 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 ...

... to me and sat right next to me to keep me company. I am surprised at how many stray dogs there are here on Easter Island. They are quite friendly though, following the toruists everywhere they go.        At 5:35 am ...