As one of the most isolated islands on earth, Easter Island can only be reached from Santiago, and the route is completely monopolized by Chile, with only two round-trips a day, five hours each way.

There is no spectrum of ticket time, there is no spectrum of ticket prices, love to sit or not, just so capricious!

But every Boeing 787 is almost full, and there is no way, I want to see aliens.

After getting off the plane, arranging a tour guide and an off-road vehicle, only to find out that the automatic transmission car is actually a rare breed?

Even if I found the largest car rental agency, I only rented a manual transmission off-road, which cost 450 RMB a day. There is only one small gas station on the island, located on the avenue just outside the airport, which is again capricious.

The tour guide drives, in addition to those roads in good condition on the island, there are countless dirt roads, and even some are rugged and difficult to walk, walking for a while and suddenly disappearing, leaving you on the awkward slope, the slope is very steep, so that novices do not know where to go, very difficult.

The island is very small, and it takes up to half a tank of fuel for a lap. When I came to the quarry, there were many stone statues that had not had time to be transported, and the number of stone statues on the island was finally fixed at about 900 after repeated surveys, and the most concentrated area must be this quarry.

It's like the home of all the stone statues, and you can even see the stone statues that are about to take shape, but for some reason they come to an abrupt end. They are buried on the hillside, gazing 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, and the change of the conflict of beliefs makes people push the stone statue they originally relied on without hesitation, and it is the soft fine sand that preserves the fragile red hat.

There are only a few dozen stone statues on the island with hats, and the tribal nobles could not cut their hair casually, but had to coil their hair on top of their heads as a status symbol. This hairstyle evolved into a hat, which the islanders called Pukao.

A hat is 3 meters in diameter and 2.5 meters high, and it takes seven or eight people to carry it, and the round hat can be easily transported to the beach by rolling on the ground.

Not far on the right is the sacred O Birdman Village, Easter Island is like a triangle floating in the Pacific Ocean, and there will be an extinct volcano on each corner, and it is the eruption of the volcano that has formed such a small island in the Pacific Ocean for hundreds of years.

Standing on a high place and looking into the distance, except for the distant sky and the blue ocean, all that remains are nearly a thousand stone statues that are as tightly guarded as they are all over the island. When I got closer, I found that they all had big heads, long ears, and closed mouths......

But they vary in size, and some even wear huge red hats. For thousands of years, the vegetation on the island has grown and withered, and countless archaeologists have excavated and studied, but what has not changed is the solemn expression revealed between the eyebrows on the cold face of a stone statue.

The mountains are undulating and mountainous, and the figure of the Lano Lolaco volcano stands majestically against the blue sky, and the remnants of a huge stone wall to the south stand several stone statues behind it. Huge stone statues line the shore, and there are also carved patterns of people and birds.

Standing on a huge stone platform, his facial expressions are vivid, some are serene and dignified, some are glaring angrily, some seem to be contemplative, and some are full of flesh and murderous ......

The immersive scene is far more shocking than the photo, and it takes at least a year to carve a stone statue eight or nine meters high with primitive axes and stone chisels, even with the cooperation of many stonemasons.

Including transportation, it takes about 3,000 labor days to erect a stone statue. The largest one on the island is 22 meters tall and weighs about 400 tons.

How did the islanders do it thousands of years ago?

Numerous scientists have tried to unravel the mystery of the statues, some believe that the aborigines had cut down forests to build them, and then the dwindling resources led to escalating conflicts on the island, culminating in the collapse of the entire society and economy on Easter Island by the time the first Europeans arrived in 1722.

Anthropologists believe that the ancient civilization of Easter Island was not only not destroyed by war, but also continued until the arrival of Europeans. And the diseases brought by the Europeans and the enslavement of the Rapa Nui killed most of the island's population in a short time.

For archaeologists, the mystical stone statues may be the biggest attraction, but for adventure travelers, the island has so much to offer. The mysterious stone statue sits firmly on the island with its back to the blue sea, and its expression is cold and serious, which makes people think a lot.

Next to it is Tahai, with three large platforms built with large stones, the islanders call this kind of stone platform Ahu, the stone statue placed on the platform is called Moai, the largest stone platform is placed on 5 stone statues, different sizes, individual has been incomplete, the other two stone platforms are placed on each stone statue of a stone statue.

Compared to Hawaii, the ancestor worship movement on Easter Island is much larger, digging rocks, cutting and transporting trees, and digging huge stone statues from the mountains that are hard to believe that they were made by man, and transporting them to the sea with whole logs underneath.

Then it is lassoed with ropes, pushed and pulled to make it erect on a tall stone platform. Then the sun rises and the sun sets, and the idle eggs hurt to make villains, and as a result, the population grew rapidly, and the island of only 165 square kilometers actually had 15,000 people.

The eleven tribes, who were polite on the surface, secretly worked hard to build stone statues, and whoever built the stone statues was tall. As the statues grew, there were fewer and fewer trees, and there was less and less food, so they decided to go out to sea to fish, and wanted to cut down wood and make boats, but found that there was no longer a big tree on the island.

One can only look at the sea in despair, and the stone statue that is worshipped as an ancestor is indifferent to the fear of the inhabitants. In addition to stealing food, the victory was declared by toppling the stone statues of the other tribe and gouging out the eyes of the stone statues. The stone statues on the island were all knocked to the ground, and the hats were rolled everywhere.

There are also many secret caves on the island, all of which belong to a particular family, and only the most important of the family members know the entrance to the secret caves. These secret caves were used to hide valuables, as well as in times of war.

In addition to the big stone people, there is also a birdman culture. Due to the geographical location, every year during the breeding season of seabirds, each tribe on the island will send a contestant to gather in the village of Orango, and then temporarily live in a stone house, waiting for the seagulls to nest and lay eggs on the island.

Competitors climb down a cliff of several hundred meters and swim nearly 2 kilometers through the shark-infested sea to the island. The first egg laid by the black tern must be found on the island, and then it must be taken back to the bottom of the cliff, and then climbed up the cliff to return to the village of Orango.

Give the undamaged egg to the tribal leader, and he will be the king of the new generation. It's a race full of challenges, dangers, and death. Every year, there are players who are unable to return to the village of Orango. They either fell off a cliff and died, or they were buried in the belly of a shark.

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