Daily Travel Photo – Easter Island, Chile
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Daily Travel Photo – Easter Island, Chile
Easter Island (Rapa Nui) is the most isolated island on Earth. It is 2,000km from the nearest spec of land. Famed for its stone heads, or maoi, it is one of the wonders of the world. This photo is of the only maoi on Easter Island to be restored with the white coral eyes. The [...]
Daily Travel Photo – Easter Island
Broken maoi (statues) and a ahu (platform) on Easter Island.
Daily Travel Photo – Easter Island
This is Ahu Tongariki on Easter Island. This ahu (the name of the platform of the maoi, or statues) was rebuilt by a Japanese television crew in 1992. All of the ahu on Easter Island had been toppled by the start of the 20th Century. All the photos you see of standing maoi were either [...]
