My Travels - Easter Island

Talking about Easter, I would like to share with you some info about the EASTER ISLAND, which is situated on the Pacific Island. I was fortunate to visit it in 2002 and found it amazing, fascinating and beautiful.

I loved the landscape formed of pure nature which still remains there. It was on the Island, where I first saw wild horses. It was really interesting experience to see them running, in such big amount. They were free and beautiful.

That would do about my impression. Below I'm posting more facts about the Island itself.

 

Easter Island is over 2,000 miles from the nearest population center, (Tahiti and Chile), making  it one of the most isolated places on the Earth. A triangle of volcanic rock in the South Pacific- it is best known for the giant stone monoliths, known as Moai, that dot the coastline.

The early settlers called the island "Te Pito O Te Henua" (Navel of The World). Admiral Roggeveen, who came upon the island on Easter Day in 1722, named it Easter Island. Today, the land, people and language are all referred to locally as Rapa Nui.

There has been much controversy and confusion concerning the origins of the Easter Islanders. Thor Heyerdahl proposed that the people who built the statues were of Peruvian descent, due to a similarity between Rapa Nui and Incan stonework. Some have suggested that Easter Island is the remnant of a lost continent, or the result of an extra-terrestrial influence . Archaeological evidence, however, indicates discovery of the island by Polynesians at about 400 AD - led, according to legend, by Hotu Matua. Upon their arrival, an impressive and enigmatic culture began to develop. In addition to the statues, the islanders possessed the Rongorongo script; the only written language in Oceania. The island is also home to many petroglyphs (rock carvings), as well as traditional wood carvings, tapa (barkcloth) crafts, tattooing, string figures, dance and  music. 

  This is the picture of me on Easter Island

 

Behind the Moai, there is the ship I was working and traveling on, around the World

 

And here are the horses I was writing about