The Eastern Island is one of the world’s most remoted and isolated places. It is a Pacific Island, also named Rapa Nui by its polynezian aborigines. It is 3600 km away from Santiago de Chile and stays under chilean jurisdiction under the name Isla de Pascua.

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Today the population island counts 1500 people. In the past, in the XVIth century, before the europeans discovered the island, the local population was of 15000 people. The first question about the Easter Island is who were its aborigines and where did they from? A posibility is that they have come from the other Pacific  islands during a more generations process. The other possible answer was that the locals came from the continental South America. This posibility was suported and proofed as posible by the notorious Thor Heyerdahl through a temerary expedition from Ecuador to Easter Island. The expedition was held exclusively with very rudimentary means, accesible to the people of precolonial times.

If you wanna reach easter Island, it is not so complicated nowadays, but still difficult: you must go to Santiago de Chile, where a jet can bring you safe on the island within a few hours. From Santiago you have also the posibility of taking a ship cruise up to the Easter Island . Once on the island, you can start your relaxing holidays so far from civilization in the town of Hanga Roa. You can bath in the Pacific and walk through this interesting island, which was in the past covered with some trees like toromiro. Why has toromiro extincted, through what ecological catastrophe or climate changes, is another unsolved questions about Eastern island.

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During your little walk on the island you will see a few unbelievable huge  stone statues, called maui. You are not drunk, they are real. Noone can explain up to now why are these stone giants there, and how have them been build. The statue are grouped in an Ahu. There are 3 Ahu available: Ahu Akivi, Aku Tungariki, Aku Nau Nau. You need at least 5 days to walk all the island trying to answer  all these challenging questions.

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