Easter Island, Tailor-made Luxury Chile Holidays
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The moai are the huge stone statues, up to 9 metres high, created by the Rapa nui people. They are scattered over the whole island and over 800 moai have been catalogued.
No one really knows why the moai, pronounced ‘mow-eye’, are there and what they represent but theories abound. It is almost permanently windy here. Winds tend to be strongest during the summer when city officials put up ropes in the downtown area to assist with unique wind currents created by the buildings?!
The Rapa Nui were Polynesians, known for their sophisticated architecture and complex hierarchical society. Between the 10th and 16th centuries they cut the moai out of flanks of the island’s Eastern volcano, Rano Raraku, where a particular type of dark compressed ash is found.
Today, half-carved moai are still visible in the rock. Once finished it is thought that the figures were transported in the same way as the monoliths of Stonehenge, using log rollers and traction.
Five reasons why to visit Chilean Patagonia:
1- Incredible history: find out all about the 900 long-faced statues, called moais, which represented the Easter Island ancestors.
2 - Photography: this place is without a doubt one of South America’s most photogenic destination.
3 - The weather: It's summer in the Southern Hemisphere when it’s winter in the northern.
4 - The language: Rapa Nui, the island's Polynesian language, is undergoing a renaissance.
5 - Walking, biking, sailing, fishing, surfing and mountain biking are great activities on the island
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