Easter Island boasts the largest and most awesome collection of prehistoric monuments in the entire Pacific.

Most of the strange formations we'd seen during our first few days on Easter Island were the moai, those gigantic and very mysterious statues standing still and upright like chess pieces all in a row. (My first story about these statues can be found at http://worldisround.com/articles/342296/?e )

But then we came upon a very different kind of carving, many heads scattered to and fro on a hillside. This was the place ... (more)