Eduardo Edwards was our guide for four days. He picked us up at the...
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The first statues - or morai - we saw were at a place called Tahaa,...
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Eduardo has lived on Easter Island for more than 40 years, and has been quite...
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Many visitors come equipped to see the island with a rental car and a...
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In front of these statues is a platform of stones covering a sacred burial...
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The centuries have taken their toll on these mysterious moai. Seabirds...
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The gleaming white eyes are thought to activate some power that will bring...
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We would walk uphill a lot during the next three days. Easter Island...
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He saw something I must have missed.
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Very early the next morning,some of us drove across the island and waited for...
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These fifteen statues are the Moai of Ahu Tongariki . They were hit by an...
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Thirty years later, in 1992, the broken moai were restored by a group...
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A closer look at the moai.
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Three others.
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A nearby sign includes a picture of the restoration .
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Later that day, our entire group returned to Ahu Tongariki to take a...
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A bird is dwarfed by the giant head of this weather beaten moai.
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Down we went for a closer look.
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Eduardo told the story of these moai, and the problems involved in...
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Experts are still trying to figure out how the moai were moved here.
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The reddish hats on some statues were carved from a particular type of stone...
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Another moai seems to stand guard over the others down below.
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No, Pat didn't find those red flowers here. They'd traveled...
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The fifteen statues stand silently over some untamed horses grazing...
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A half hour drive away are the seven statues of Ahu Akivi, the only moai on...
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Two of the group known as the Seven Explorers. It is believed they were...
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These too were broken and scattered by an earthquake. Funds were...
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It took three weeks to raise the first moai, but only three days to raise the...
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What a legacy Eduardo and his fellow restorers have left Easter...
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On another side of the island we found the seven moai of Ahu Nau Nau. Many...
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After an energetic morning, it was time for lunch in Hanga Roa, the...
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And then, up on the hill above the fifteen moai we found a totally different...
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South America
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