I spent almost a week on Easter Island. The island is one of the most remote places in the world. A journey to Easter Island is no joke. Take a geographic map and observe its position you will see that the nearest inhabited lands are thousands of kilometers away. The closest inhabited place, which is […]
Easter Island is famous for its mysterious civilization, the one that built the huge volcanic stone statues called “moai”. The island is located in the so-called southern seas, in the waters of the southern Pacific ocean and is part of the islands of Polynesia. Its original inhabitants are also Polynesian and speak a language similar […]
Easter Island immediately connects to one word: MOAI. The Moai are human figures carved in volcanic rock, unique works of Easter Island. According to the most recent studies, the Rapa Nui people sculpted these statues between the years 1250 and 1500. In this short period of time the Rapa Nui civilization sculpted about 900 huge […]
Lost in the South Pacific Ocean, Easter Island is a fascinating place from all points of view. Easter Island is one of the most isolated inhabited islands in the world. Its isolation makes it difficult to reach. In fact, it takes almost 6 hours of flight from Santiago de Chile or from Tahiti. The island […]
Easter Island is dotted with volcanic cones. Three are the most important Easter Island volcanoes: Terevaka volcano (altitude 507 meters, the highest point on the island), Poike volcano (altitude 370 meters) and Rano Kau volcano (altitude 324 meters). The fascinating and mysterious civilization of the island make it a unique destination on our planet. The […]
Every place on Easter Island has something to discover if you look carefully. Because here the story speaks of an ancient civilization of which we know very little. This island gives the feeling of a place with infinite spaces, but the island is very small. Easter Island is small, dry and desolate, but has infinite […]
Located just under 6 hours flight from Santiago de Chile and at more or less the same flight hours from Tahiti in French Polynesia, Easter Island is one of the most isolated places in the world. To get an idea of the isolation of this island take a map and observe the distances: The nearest […]
Easter Island is located in the South-Eastern Pacific Ocean at about 27 degrees latitude south, its latitude and its location in the middle of the larger ocean of the earth means that the island is affected by a semi-tropical climate, characterized by low daily temperature fluctuations and annual rainfall distributed throughout the year. The wind blowing quite often is one […]
Easter Island (Isla de Pascua) also known by the indigenous name of Rapa Nui is one of the most isolated islands in the Pacific ocean. This island is in fact located over 3,500 km from the Chilean coast and about 4,000 km from the island of Tahiti in French Polynesia. The only inhabited village on […]