As one of the most isolated islands on the earth, you can only travel from Santiago to Easter Island. The route is completely monopolized by Chile. There are only two round trips per day, with five hours a day.

The time for release of tickets is not determined, the price of tickets is not determined, and you willful if you like to sit or not!

But every time the Boeing 787 is almost full, and I have no choice but to go and see the aliens.

I got off the plane, arranged a tour guide and off-road vehicle, and found that the automatic transmission car was actually a rare variety?

Even though I found the largest car rental store, I only rented a manual off-road vehicle, 450 RMB a day. There is only a small gas station on the island located on the avenue outside the airport, and I am very willful again.

The tour guide drove. Except for those well-conditioned avenues on the island, there were countless dirt roads, and some were even rugged and difficult to walk. After walking, it suddenly disappeared, leaving you on an awkward slope. The slope was very steep, making novices not know where to go, and it was very difficult.

The island is very small, and it takes at most half a tank of oil to run for a lap. When I came to the quarry, there were many stone statues that I had not had time to transport away. The number of stone statues on the island was finally frozen after repeated investigations. The most concentrated area must be this quarry.

It is like the hometown of all the stone statues. You can even see the stone statues that are about to be formed, but for some reason they have stopped abruptly. They are buried on the hillside and stare at the island for hundreds of years.

I heard that the beach in front of me has the most complete red hat moai statue on the island. The change of faith conflict has made people push the stone statues they originally rely on without hesitation. It is the soft fine sand and the fragile red hat that can be preserved.

There are only dozens of stone statues on the island with hats. Tribal nobles cannot cut their hair casually, but instead put their hair on the top of their heads as a symbol of their identity. This hairstyle evolves into hats, which the islanders call pukao.

A hat can only be moved by 3 meters in diameter and 2.5 meters in height. A round hat can be easily transported by the sea by rolling on the ground.

Not far from the right is the holy land of Orango Birdman Village. Easter Island is like a triangle floating in the Pacific Ocean. There will be an extinct volcano on each corner. It is the volcano that erupted for hundreds of years before such a small island in the Pacific Ocean.

Standing at a high place and looking into the distance, besides the distant sky and the blue ocean, what remains are nearly a thousand stone statues as tight as guards, which are spread all over the island. When you approach, you find that they all have big heads, long ears, and tight mouths...

But the size is different, and some even wear huge red hats. For thousands of years, the plants and trees on the island have grown and flourished, and countless archaeologists have excavated and studied them, but what has not changed is the solemn expression revealed between the cold faces and eyebrows of the stone statues.

The mountains are undulating and the mountains are stacked. The figure of Ranololaco volcano looks majestic and upright on the blue sky. There are a huge stone wall in the south, and several stone statues stand behind them. The huge stone statues are arranged on the coast, with patterns of figures and birds engraved on them.

Standing on the huge stone platform, the facial expressions were vivid, some were peaceful and dignified, some were glaring, some seemed to be meditating, some were full of flesh and murderous aura...

The immersive scene is much more shocking than the photos. A stone statue that is eight or nine meters high can be carved with an original axe. Even with the cooperation of many stonemasons, it will take at least one year.

With the transportation, it will take about 3,000 working days to erect a stone statue. The largest one on the island is as high as 22 meters and weighs about 400 tons.

How did the islanders thousands of years ago do it?

Countless scientists tried to unveil the veil of mysterious stone statues. Some people believed that the indigenous people cut down forests for the construction of stone statues. The subsequent decline in resources led to the escalation of conflicts on the island. Finally, when the first Europeans arrived in 1722, the entire society and economy on Easter Island were on the verge of collapse.

Anthropological experts believe that the ancient civilization of Easter Island was not only not destroyed by war, but also continued until the arrival of Europeans. The diseases brought by Europeans and the enslavement of the Rapanui people killed most of the island's population in a short period of time.

For archaeologists, mysterious stone statues may be the biggest attraction, but for those who are exploring and traveling, everything on the island is so charming. The mysterious stone statues sit steadily on the island with their backs facing the blue sea, with a cold and serious expression, which makes people wonder.

Next to it is the Tahai Sea, three large platforms built with large stones. Islanders call this kind of stone platform Ahu, and the stone statues placed on the platform are called Moe. Five stone statues are placed on the largest stone platform, of varying sizes, and some are incomplete. One stone statue is placed on the other two stone platforms.

Compared with Hawaii, the worship of ancestors on Easter Island is much more important. They cut the mountains and carved stones, logged and transported them, and they were forced to carve out huge stone statues from the mountains that were hard to believe were done by manpower, and used whole wood to transport them to the beach.

Then he used a rope to hold it up, push and pull it up, and then put it up on the tall stone platform. Then he worked from sunrise and rested at sunset, and was idle and made villains. As a result, the population grew rapidly, and the island with only 165 square kilometers had 15,000 people.

The eleven tribes were polite on the surface, but secretly tried their best to build stone statues. Whoever built the tall stone statues would be awesome. There were more and more stone statues, fewer and fewer trees, and fewer food, so they decided to go out to sea to fish. They wanted to cut wood and make boats, but found that there was no big tree on the island.

I could only look at the sea in despair, but the stone statues that were regarded as ancestors were indifferent to the fear of the residents. In order to fight for food, the war broke out, and the tribes started frequently. In addition to snatching food, the one who declared victory was to push down the stone statues of the other tribe and dig out the eyes of the stone statues. All the stone statues on the island were pushed to the ground, and their hats were rolled everywhere.

There are many secret caves on the island, which belong to specific families. Only the most important people among family members know the entrance to the secret cave. These secret caves are used to hide valuables and are also used to hide during wars.

In addition to the big stone people, there is also a bird people culture. Due to its geographical location, every year when seabird breeding season, each tribe on the island will select a contestant to gather in the village of Aurango, and then temporarily live in the stone house, waiting for the seagulls to build nests on the island to lay eggs.

The contestant climbed down a cliff a few hundred meters, then swam through nearly 2 kilometers of sea where sharks frequently appear, and swam to the island. He had to find the first egg laid by the tern on the island, and then swam back to the cliff with this egg, then climbed up the cliff, and returned to the village of Aurango.

Giving the intact egg to the leader of the tribe, he is the king of the new generation. This is a competition full of challenges, dangers, and death. Every year, players are unable to return to the village of Aurango. They either fall off a cliff and die or are buried in the belly of a shark.

There is no limit to life!
Chapter completed!