Easter Island Santiago Do tres dias a bit Santiago, we try to leave for Isla de Pascua Giampa and to the amazement of us immediately confirm the shipment, the heel elevator of 6 brought us luck!
After a journey of 5 hours (nearly 4000 km from the coast of Chile) and get you really feel the smell of the sea, although here is not 'the protagonist.
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| just landed ... |
sounds strange but this beautiful island only has a beach that you can 'define this, the rest are all reefs with high waves, and then en nada ..
decided to spend three nights, rent a scooter there and enjoys it rose slowly.
The Moai are spectacular, they are almost all along the road back to the sea, some are face down 'and would like to raise them because it' s really a shame that such a legacy is left like that, but you can not 'then we accept to enjoy it, and let those that have been raised and put back in their place.
visit, at great cost, the "factory" of the Moai: we are on the side of a hill that was used as a quarry, where there are statues of all sizes and at all stages of processing. Through studies have found that to make one (and all are about 300 ..) needed to be the work of thirty men for a year, and at least another two months to bring it to the final destination.
This place 'magic, there are MOAI standing, others lying down, sitting on one heel, and a 21-meter, the more' greatest of all, yet built at the quarry.
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| me know that the wasp 50 .... |
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| tete-a-tete |
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| our jeep |
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| Moai & Cute |
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| the only one with eyes |
Before visiting the other side of the park which is located on the opposite side of the island, we decided to walk up to the point more 'top of the island and after 2 hours of walking in the middle of some field grown cows and horses, the show does not disappoint: there is' a 360 degree that leaves you breathless, the colors are amazing, you sees the entire perimeter of the island, we regret not to have synonyms to describe everything ', I hope the photos speak for us.
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| summit |
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| laugh and it will pass ... |
The next day we go to the other side of the park where there are houses of the inhabitants of the time, are about 50 and are all in the shape of the boat, they have also restored after especially after the earthquake and tsunami that had killed: in this beautiful place, overlooking the sea, there were rites to propitiate the advent of spring until the end of '800. Also next door is 'the huge crater of a volcano through which you and' the island formed by more than 1 km in diameter and 200 feet high, which now houses a swamp.  |
| notice the dust ...... |
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| too good! |
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| one of the houses |
After all this culture, and two days of scooter that we have filled with dust, passing through the country and witness the evidence of the festival which will take place 'next week with about 50 guys who dance a ritual dance and sensual .... we were the only 'foreign' and e 'is very beautiful ..
The day ends riposaci going to sit for a few hours back and legs in the beautiful and unique beach, which is also dominated by five Moai with mega bath and sun, and then setting "kitty-cat" (Rosario docet ...).
This concludes our visit to this unique place, tomorrow we expected the plane to Santiago, Sergio still sleep and wake up start to the sea, Valparaiso awaits us ...
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| ready for take-off .. |
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