Chapter 755: This is the taste
It took Bi Fang more than two days, nearly three days, to rush from the Ugly Country to the Easter Islands.
From such a long distance, it is clear that Easter Island is completely an isolated island with "no village in front and no store behind"!
The island is 3,500 kilometers east to Chile, 7,500 kilometers west to Australia, 5,000 kilometers north to Chou, and 4,500 kilometers south to Antarctica.
It's outrageous.
This island and the nearest inhabited island are 2,000 kilometers away, and it is almost remote from the Nui Atoll that Bi Fang was supposed to go to.
Bi Fang introduces the history and information of Easter Island as he walks, and it is common to see some giant figures carved out of stone that are several meters tall along the way.
Occasionally, Bi Fang would stop and take a closer look at a few stone statues to show some details.
Many people have seen and understood these huge stone statues from the perspective of pictures, but from the perspective of an onlooker, the shape of these stone statues seems to be a little silly.
Modern people have experienced the bombardment of hundreds of meters of tall buildings, and many sculptures are even ten meters or tens of meters high, so from the photos, you may not think that these four or five meters high stone statues are so amazing.
But from the ancients and even modern people looking up from the bottom up, these portraits are still mysterious and hideous, making people daunting.
There are hundreds of such sculptures on Easter Island.
"The explorer Rogwen was shocked by the number of huge stone statues, but Lojevin made only a brief record of them in his nautical diary before leaving Easter Island in a hurry."
"It wasn't until 50 years later that another famous explorer of the central country, Captain Cook, also came to Easter Island and measured the stone statues here for the first time."
"In the end, it was found that there are more than 800 stone colossias called 'Moai' by the locals on Easter Island, with an average height of about 4 meters and a weight of more than a dozen tons, and the largest one is 21.6 meters high and weighs more than 100 tons."
"Most of these stone statues are carved according to the same pattern, and some of them have red hats made of rock on their heads. All the statues have long faces, long ears, and bodies up to the crotch, while the eyes of the statues are made of coral and dark stone."
Bi Fang stretched out his hand to touch the rough stone statue, even if he didn't exert force, he could feel its heaviness.
Stones also have their own life history, although this life history is significantly different from the life history of animals and plants.
Whether it is a stone on the road or a stone in the field, they are subjected to the sun and rain all year round, the trampling of cars and horses, and the action of microorganisms, which change all the time and become new things.
Humans can't see their changes because they change very little.
We can't see it with our naked eyes, but we know how it changes.
"If we could change the speed of time and film millions of years of history like a movie, and then show it at a rapid pace, we would see a huge change in nature in a matter of hours."
"Mountains appear in the depths of the ocean, and when the mountains rise to the ground they become depressions, and minerals appear in the hot melt, and then the minerals crumble into powder, and then into clay."
"Countless plants and animals have been turned into thick limestone in a matter of seconds, and in a matter of minutes, people have turned mines into flat land, ore into iron plates/rails, or all kinds of machines."
"In this throbbing picture, everything is changing at lightning speed, and finally ......" Bi Fang pointed to his nose, "I appeared in front of you."
[rough, goosebumps got up] [What's going on with this picture (hugging his head and crying)] [This is copywriting, it must be copywriting!]
[Has Lao Fang started to make drafts in the live broadcast now]
"Ahem, in fact, what I want to say is that even if you pick up a stone from the side of the road, it may be tens of thousands of years old, but millions of years, or even hundreds of millions of years old, but this kind of natural history has no value to us."
Bi Fang patted the stone statue and laughed.
"What is really valuable are the stones in front of us, which have the participation of real creatures and have a strong human history."
"They bear witness to a part of the time span, through endless time and space to dialogue with modern people, allowing us to peek into the corners of ancient human thought from certain details, proving that they have come, existed, and lived."
"But that's all there is to it, if you are really interested, if you have the opportunity to come to the island in the future, we will start today's main body."
After a brief introduction to the magical scenery of the island, Bi Fang felt that he was worthy of the official recommendation requirements of Chile.
After taking the certificate of others, it is natural to do a good job in tourism promotion.
"I'm here today with one purpose in mind, and that's to find the right wood, build a suitable wooden boat, and use it to cross the entire South Pacific Ocean across Nemo Point."
[Nemo point, what is Nemo point] [So what does this have to do with the desert?] [Is there a desert on the island?]
Not surprisingly, Nemo clicked on this word, and many viewers were confused. Don't say you understand, you haven't even heard of it.
"The so-called Nemo Point is the 'Extreme of the Ocean', and its geographical location is 48 degrees 52.6 minutes south latitude and 123 degrees 23.6 minutes west longitude."
Bi Fang explains what Nemo Point is, the three closest islands to it, and why he came to Easter Island.
Only then did everyone vaguely understand that this was a popular tourist island, and it really didn't seem like a place worth adventuring.
It's not necessarily possible that after three months, there will be another central country paddling, right? I'm so sorry for the audience.
"In various travel and adventure texts, people often refer to the end of the world, such as the North and South Pole \ Mount Everest \ Sahara Desert \ Siberia and so on."
"In fact, these places are much more popular than Nemo Point."
"Even if you don't take into account the annual climbers on Mount Everest, there are tens of thousands of Sherpas living at the foot of the mountain."
"The edge of the Sahara Desert and Siberia, although the population density is small, there are also inhabitants who live."
"It's true that no one lives at the South Pole and the North Pole, but there are still research stations in Antarctica, and there are many cities in the Arctic Circle."
"But with Nemo Point as the center, there are no human settlements within a radius of 3,000 kilometers."
"The closest to the Nemo pole are humans, probably not on land, but in space. If I had passed Nemo Point at the right time, the closest human to me would have been an astronaut on the space station at an altitude of more than 300 kilometers."
Bi Fang pointed to the clear blue sky overhead.
Many people couldn't help but follow Bi Fang's movements and looked up, until they saw their own ceiling and realized that they were just watching the live broadcast.
Nemo Point, a place that will make one enjoy solitude in the absolute sense of the word.
"The first half of this livestream is to make a qualified ship in fifteen days, and then I will ride it through the loneliest ocean spot on the planet."
Bi Fang's words were loud. [What a cowhide, that's what it smells like!]