I arrived in Santiago, Chile early in the morning on 6 Feb and had the day to walk around the city. I was very impressed at how clean and metropolitan the city was and how beautiful the women are. On 7 Feb I was off to Easter Island.

Note: You gotta love plagiarizing – To save time and to insure my spelling was right - I did copy some of the info from the internet about the history of Easter Island.

Easter Island (known in the native language as Rapa Nui or Isla de Pascua in Spanish) is an island in the South Pacific Ocean belonging to Chile. Located 2,300 west of …

I had no idea what to expect during my time on Easter Island but a few pleasant surprises told me that this was going to be a good visit. The first surprise was that I got upgraded to business class for the 5-hour flight to Easter Island. The second surprise was that, unknown to me when I arranged this part of my trip to Easter Island, I would be …

The Tapati (a festival and competition) is one of the most significant cultural commemorations of Polynesia. Each year (for two weeks) the entire island community revives centuries of culture and tradition by dividing into two teams in order to compete to elect a queen. During the two-week festival the competing teams will participate in a variety …

There has been a long debate about when the moais where built and why they were built. Moai’s are statues carved from volcanic stone from the Rano Raraku and are all monolithic, (carved in one piece). The largest moai erected is “Paro,” about 33 feet high and weighing about 83 tons. One unfinished sculpture has been found that …

When I got home my roommates were watching show TV special about Easter Island. Now what is putting me on my soap box was the left leaning dodo incorporated into this TV special. It was an amazing feat when the first people reach Easter Island and when thy got to the island it was a lush Topical Island. Over the years, instead of developing the …