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Secrets of Easter Island

The Easter Island is full of secrets, from its famous huge stone sculptures to a good, inexpensive city. Old issues are how the sculptures were moved and why the island was losing its saplings. There are also riddles such as what $1,600 a day you get in a motel and why streets are not better signposted for tourists to the island.

It is perhaps appropriate that there are still mysteries on the most distant populated island on earth: a Chilenean area in the Southern Pacific, 3,700 kilometres westwards of the Latin America mainland. I read my plane in a current edition of National Geographic which outlines six different hypotheses about how a race without wheels or draught beasts could move solid sculptures up to 100 tonnes (90 tonnes) up to 18 kilometres across the island.

In Polynesia, we were welcomed with floral decorations and received a short walk through the city of Hanga Roa, where most of the island's 5,500 inhabitants live. The island hosts a number of eateries, rent a vehicle, market, souvenir shop, water sports shop and small hotel with more than 50,000 each year. The island's price is high because everything is import.

Not much information is available on-line, and Easter Island, or Rafa Nui as the natives call it, is just a few pages in most travel guides. He took us around the 63 sq. km island (163 sq. km) and led us to the Moais. Though often called heads, they are full-body woodcarvings of offspring of the first Polynesians centuries ago.

Less than 50 of the sculptures have been rebuilt by archeologists, and the most striking of them is a place where 15 giant mai are standing on a 213 metre long ceremony deck with their backs to the stomping sands. At the end of the street is the Rano Raraku National Park, the stone pit where the wood carvings were made.

There is a winding trail between the 400 sculptures, which have been finished to different extents. No matter what their cause, there is no question that the workmen halted prematurely and left a stone burial ground of a once highly developed civilisation. Many of the moais have been bury up to their necks, giving the appearance that they are nothing more than heads.

The only thing you know to have feet is the mai. After seeing volcano crater, we discovered a 4 mile long cave and floated from a sand shaded by mai. It was one of the few places with tree life and these palm tree were brought from Tahiti.

Anyone who is behind the logging of this once-threatened island is another question. Other accuse the mai because they believe that the tree was trimmed to build sledges to move them. Another small wonder is the island's small and somewhat disordered little wonder. Here, almost alone under the mai, I said good-bye to a place that fascinated me and its people.

I' d be willing to admit that the stone lip would never reveal its mysteries. The Easter Island: easterislandspirit.com and easterislandtourism.com. $50 at the non-Chilean airfield for a Rana Nui National Park passport, $60 elsewhere. What is written in a name: The island loses its name. The island is named Easter Island because the first discoverer from Holland discovered it at Easter 1721.

Natives call the island and its tongue Rapanui and call themselves Rapanui. The name probably comes from the nineteenth centuary and means verbatim "Big Rapa", which can mean the island of Rape in France.