#Raraku

[eminjbrylv]

#Malazan #deadhouse gates #duiker #coltaine #chain of dogs #Malazan 2 #steven erikson #wickan #Bult #Aren #seven cities #Genabackis #Korbolo Dom #felisin paran #Felisin #Heboric #Raraku

[iwillberunningfromdemons]

He saw her at the edge of the glade, small, bedraggled, pulling herself forward in torturous increments.

L'oric reached her side, a hand reaching to settle at the back of her head, onto sweat-snarled hair. She flinched away with a squeal, fingers clawing against his arm. "Felisin! He's gone! It is L'oric. You are safe with me. Safe, now-"

But still she sought to escape.

"I shall call upon Sha'ik-"

"No!" she shrieked, curling tight on the sand. "No! She needs him! She needs him still!" Her words were blunted by broken lips but understandable none the less.

L'oric sank back, struck mute by the horror. Not simply a wounded creature, then. A mind clear enough to weigh, to calculate, to put itself aside... "She will know, lass - she can't help but know."

"No! Not if you help me. Help me, L'oric. Just you - not even Heboric! He would seek to kill Bidithal, and that cannot be."

"Heboric? I want to kill Bidithal!"

"You musn't. You can't. He has power-"

He saw the shudder run through her at that.

L'oric hesitated, then said, "I have healing salves, elixirs... but you will need to stay hidden for a time."

"Here, in Toblakai's temple. Here, L'oric."

"I will bring water. A tent."

"Yes!"

The rage that burned in him had contracted down to a white-hot core. He struggled to control it, his resolve sporadically weakened by doubts that he was doing the right thing. This was... monstrous. There would be an answer to it. There would have to be an answer to it.

Even more monstrous, he realized with a chill, they had all known the risk. We knew he wanted her. Yet we did nothing.

House of Chains, by Steven Erikson (Malazan Book of the Fallen #4)

#😭😭 #okay i love l'oric for this #malazan #books #malazan book of the fallen #the malazan book of the fallen #steven erikson #house of chains #book quotes #fantasy books #books and reading #fantasy literature #fantasy #books and quotes #l'oric #felisin younger #sha'ik #bidithal #raraku #dark fantasy #high fantasy #epic fantasy

[ausetkmt]

Easter Island blaze chars famous moai head statues  | Daily Mail Online

A forest fire that tore through part of Easter Island has charred some of its fabled monumental carved stone figures, known as moai, authorities said Thursday.

'Nearly 60 hectares (148 acres) were affected, including some moai,' Carolina Perez, cultural heritage undersecretary, said in a Twitter post.

On Easter Island, which lies some 3,500 kilometers (2,175 miles) off the west coast of Chile, 100 hectares have been razed by flames since Monday, Perez said. The area around the Rano Raraku volcano, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, was the most affected.

An estimated several hundred moai are in that area, as well as in the quarry where the stone used to carve the sculptures is extracted.

View of a fire at the Rapa Nui National Park in Easter Island, Chile, on October 6, 2022

Easter Island mayor Pedro Edmunds Paoa told local broadcaster Radio Pauta that he believed the fires were "not an accident"

Fire burns in the area of Rano Raraku volcano on Easter Island after forest fires broke out in the region on October 6, 2022

'The damage caused by the fire can't be undone,' Pedro Edmunds, mayor of Easter Island, told local media.

There is still no report on the total damage.

But the fire comes just three months after the island was reopened to tourism on August 5, after two years of closure due to Covid-19.

Before the pandemic, Easter Island - whose main livelihood is tourism - received some 160,000 visitors a year, on two daily flights.

The island is also, less commonly, accessible by boat. 

With the arrival of Covid-19 in Chile, tourist activity was completely suspended.

The island was long inhabited by Polynesian people, before Chile annexed it in 1888. 

The first European visitors arrived on Easter Sunday 1722, giving it its English language name.

The island's official Spanish name is Isla de Pascua - literally 'Easter Island'.

Local Polynesians call the island 'Rapa Nui', 'Big Rapa', referring to the resemblance to Rapa Island in the Bass Islands. 

The famous head statues were carved centuries earlier by the Rapa Nui people in honour of fallen leaders and moved by hand around the island by small groups.

The island remains one of the world's most isolated inhabited islands, 1,150 miles (1,850 km) from the Juan Fernandez Islands.

Easter Island is today home to approximately 7,750 people. 

In 2020, a Chilean man was arrested after crashing his truck into one of the sacred Easter Island heads, leading to vehicle restrictions on the island.

The destruction of one spurred Mayor Pedro Edmund Paoa into action, advocating stricter traffic controls on Easter Island.

El Mercurio reported that the mayor had previously called for better controls as the island faces rising population levels and rates of tourism.

Where did the moai come from? 

While there is no consensus on when Easter Island was first inhabited, it is thought Polynesians settled the island around the 12th century.

The 887 known statues, measuring up to 32ft (10m) tall, were carved by the Rapa Nui people between 1450 and 1650 AD from local stone.

The heads may be the most famous parts, but all the statues also have bodies.

95% of the figures were carved from compressed volcanic ash found on the side of the extinct Rano Raraku volcano.

The native islanders carved the statues by hand and moved them around the island by tying ropes around them and rocking them into place. 

The statues were built to honour chieftain or other important people who had died. 

They were placed on rectangular tombs for the people they represented. 

Smoke rises from a fire burning in the area of Rano Raraku volcano on Easter Island,itself a UNESCO World Heritage Site

#Easter Island's famous statues suffer 'irreparable' damage after huge blaze sweeps the historic site #maori #maoi #africans #rano raraku volcano

[thepastisalreadywritten]

#Easter Island #Rapa Nui #moai #Rapa Nui-Easter Island #monolithic sculptures #Rano Raraku Lake #UNESCO World Heritage Site #Chile #monolithic human figures

[adastra-sf]

The Maoi of Rapa Nui

Moai chieftain statues are the famous massive megaliths of Rapa Nui (aka Easter Island) in eastern Polynesia, carved about 1250-1650 CE by the original Polynesian colonizers of the island.

Many know them as "Easter Island heads," a misconception from having seen photos of statues in the volcano Rano Raraku partitially covered with soil. They all have full bodies with over-large heads - a 3:5 ratio between head and trunk, a sculptural trait consistent with the Polynesian belief in the sanctity of the chiefly head.

The island holds nearly 1000 statues, each weighing as much as 90 tons and standing up to 10 meters tall, though they average around half that. One unfinished sculpture would have stood 21 meters (69 feet!) tall and weighed 180 tons. More statues are still being discovered.

Almost all (95%) of the moais were carved from the volcano's stone tuff - compressed volcanic ash that's relatively easy to carve using only stone tools (toki).

Probably the biggest mystery is how tribes using Stone-Age tech could succeed in transporting 50-ton moai statues across kilometers of hilly terrain. Because the island was largely treeless by the time Europeans first arrived (by which time local culture and history had largely collapsed), the movement of the statues was a mystery for a long time.

Some transportation theories are more accepted than others:

The earliest accounts say a king named Tuu Ku Ihu moved them with the help of the god Makemake, while later stories tell of a woman who lived alone on the mountain ordering them about at her will. 

The longest-held European hypothesis was that the moai statues were dragged from the volcano to their destinations along log rollers, which also explained how the island became deforested. Pollen analysis has established that the island was almost totally forested until 1200 CE, and tree pollen disappears from the record by 1650.

However, Iceland demonstrates how simply using wood for construction and fire can quickly deforest an island.

According to oral tradition, the moai statues walked to their destination. A literal interpretation is that the statues were rocked from side to side while pulling them forward to "walk" them to their final sites, as demonstrated in this recent experiment. This theory holds the most scholarly support today.

A not-uncommon but highly unlikely (and, y'know, disrespectful) claim is that aliens placed the moai statues for the locals. Occam's razor suggests this probably isn't the answer. But everyone loves aliens. The debate continues.

The ancient period ended when the Rapa Nui people were devastated by Peruvian slave-raiding expeditions that reached the island in 1862. Within a year, the individuals who remained on the island were sick, injured, and lacking leadership. Survivors of the slave raids had to deal with Christian missionaries. By the time Europeans arrived in 1722, the island's population was estimated at less than 3,000. Foreign diseases and emigration to other islands such as Tahiti further depleted the population, reducing it to a low of 111 native inhabitants in 1877.

Chile annexed the island in 1888, but it wasn't until 1966 that the Rapa Nui were granted Chilean citizenship. The 2017 census registered 7750 people on the island, of whom 3512 (45%) consider themselves Rapa Nui.

The original inhabitants live on among their famous megaliths.

#rapa nui #moai #archaeology #easter island #history

[museum-of-artifacts]

"El Gigante", located at Rano Raraku quarry, is the largest Easter Island statue ever carved. If finished, it would have stood 21.6 m (71 feet) tall, almost twice that of any moai ever completed, and would have weighed an estimated 270 tons, many times the weight of any transported

[equatorjournal]

Some of the colossal stone images of Easter Island on the slope of Rano Raraku. From "Oceanic Mythology: The Myths of Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia, Australia" by Roslyn Poignant, 1967. https://www.instagram.com/p/CnumZNtNnxA/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[ae-neon]

Attempting to sum up my feelings and thoughts on Deadhouse Gates

4.5/5

Non-Spoilers.

What a sequel. I thought Gardens of the Moon was probably the best thing I'd ever read but somehow Deadhouse Gates was better?? Like objectively speaking the writing leveled up but also the feel of the novel was more cohesive too.

I never quite understood what people meant when they said "the setting was its own character" but from Hissar to Raraku, Seven Cities feels so real and is ever relevant to the story. It colours the pages and actions and plot in its own hue. And Erikson's layers of history and culture add a visceral and powerful weight that deepens the stories set there.

I honestly don't think I can say I read this book. I experienced it, and what an experience it was. As the fans say, I have walked the Chain of Dogs.

Once again, there is no shortage of wonder (from a ghost ship operated by the dead to a city of people turned to stone) the fantasy is as high as ever - but Erikson forced me, again and again, down to earth with the best parts of this story being the study of humanity.

Any book this grim and especially in the current political climate could come off as unpleasant or flimsy if not downright distasteful, but Erikson has left me in awe, heartbroken and shaking my head at futility but somehow never feeling hopeless. He is not trying to be dark for the sake of being dark. He is showing you humanity in all its shades.

It is not lightly that I say this book shows the actual nuance of conflict, the only way it can be: through the individual human lens. It confronts these characters with their own bias, with hypocrisy, with betrayal, with being wrong and with the humanity of their enemies and the futility of their actions.

And the characters?? Good lord, I don't understand how Erikson can have such huge but distinct characters. Even the animals have personality! Moby, Apt, the Ghral horse and of course the Wickan dogs! Felisin, Coltaine and Icarium were the standouts for me though it would be unfair not to give Erikson props for the insanity that is Iskaral Pust.

Once again, my biggest gripe boil to Erikson not being good at developing romance.

All in all, Deadhouse Gates - from it's insane prologue to the very end is a once in a lifetime experience and even if I never picked up another Malazan book (literally reading MoI rn) I would still be happy I got this far. If GoTM were not needed for context and a general understanding of Erikson's style, I would recommend Deadhouse Gates even to those who have no interest in Malazan.

Spoilers

Coltaine, Kulp and Lorn. Erikson has me 3 for 3 on killing my favourite characters. At least my Coastal Marines seem to be fine.

How so many can read this book and hate Felisin has me disappointed but not surprised. Not only was she completely valid in her feelings, but she was also hilarious in her jabs. It's so sad that one of the first memories transmitted to Felisin from Sha'ik is the implied sexual assualt at the hands of the man who raised her. And there's something so bittersweet about Sha'ik Reborn giving the name Felisin to her daughter in hopes that the girl she was and the girl she has will fair better than Felisin Paran did.

The Chain of Dogs will stay with me always. As a person who lives in the Global South/Third World and was born only 3 years into my country's independence, fear of civil unrest, war and general collapse of law and order have been very real fears in my life. I tend to stray away from documentaries and movies centered around these topics because of the anxiety it creates in me.

But Erikson never took things too far, he was blunt and honest in his portrayals - though I will say I wish we had seen more of Seven Cities natives who objected to violence and sexual assault especially as tools of war. I know that these things often happen but the same is true of objection, of restraint, of a want to see justice play out in a more lawful way.

Again, I am saying this as someone who was born into a newly independent country, so much of the immediate aftermath was trials in which families got lawful justice and acknowledgement of the wrong done to them and their loved ones under the former regime.

I am glad we got the nuance of Duiker and Kalam being natives who align more with the Empire - their reasoning is well done, nuanced and even more amazing when, in Kalam's case, he must face the possibility of viewing the Empire in a gold haze or rose-tinted glasses.

On the topic of Kalam, I will be honest and say my like of Kalam and Ben as a duo might have skewed my initial reading of Kalam and Minala's interactions, but I have never and will never be the type of person who villainizes or dislikes a female character for "coming in between" the relationship of two male characters.

I want to make it clear that I don't dislike Minala at all. However, Erikson has failed, once again, to make me believe in this romance. I don't buy Minala leaving her sister in the middle of life-changing rebellion to follow a man she barely communicated and connected with. Especially so soon after escaping her abusive husband's grasp which she only endured because it benefitted her sister.

Pearl had better chemistry with Lostara, hell, he had better chemistry with Kalam as Salk Elan than Kalam and Minala had. It would have been more believable to have Kalam stay and raise Shadowthrone's child army as a sort of repayment to Apt and Panek.

Speaking of, I always knew Kellanved/Shadowthrone was a bit...off...just from the stories he's heard but it's another thing entire to see Cotillion have doubts. VERY INTERESTING.

The Wickans piqued my interest from the moment they stopped the Red Blades at the docks but Coltaine and Bult speaking up in favour of Laseen had me instantly on their side as I never appreciated the nostalgic, boys club view that so many of our veterans had of the Laseen v Kellanved story. I always believed she would at least be fleshed out. And when Erikson had Chalice dash Crokus' idealised dreams and Murillio see the hollowness in his victory and the humanity in Simtal at the end of GotM, I knew he wasn't going to be the type of author to give us hollow, one note female characters.

Fid, Crokus and Apsalar - my darling family, also verrrry interesting that Fiddler returned to Seven Cities instead of Genabackis

Seeing as the title of the next book is Memories of Ice, I was immediately entrigued by the glimpses of Jaghut and Imass history we got. I LOVED Lorn and Tool in GotM so getting more on the T'lan Imass but especially on otataral was such a treat.

I was, in some ways, mentally prepared for Coltaine to die as part of him being this larger-than-life figure and inevitable tragic hero BUT I will never forgive Erikson for Kulp WHYYY

I cried through Mappo's confession to Icarium but I was already bawling at Duiker leaving the remains of the 7th behind to see the refugees to Aren. I took a ten minute break from reading after the gates closed, thinking that was the end of it. But Erikson had more in store for me and I was almost as wrecked by grief as Nil and Nether at end of chapter 21 and I set the book down for a day and half, once again foolishly thinking that was the end.

Malazan fans say "you walked the Chain of Dogs" but, tbh, it dog-walked me, I was wrecked.

PS

I love how everyone in the book and even me in this rambling review, completely brush past Heboric pulling Fener onto the mortal plain. I found otataral interesting just from Lorn's sword but this has brought me a million questions

#malazan #deadhouse gates #malazan book of the fallen

[archivist-crow]

On this day:

EASTER ISLAND MOAI

On March 25, 1722, Easter Sunday, while sailing in isolation in the South Pacific over 2,000 miles from the nearest population, Admiral Jacob Roggeveen noticed an uncharted island in the distance. To those on the approaching boat, the island appeared to be inhabited by giants. Upon landing, they discovered the giants to be colossal stone statues. The statues had been carved from yellow-gray volcanic rock and had red rock topknots; they were called Moai by the native Islanders. Roggeveen christened the isle Easter Island. The origin of its people and their statues is unknown.

The statues purpose is uncertain. They may be monolithic monuments to dead rulers, or they may be ritualistic, as they have been rumored to possess benevolent supernatural power. Geomagnetic irregularities have been recorded from Easter Island, suggesting these statues act as antennae for healing earth energy. Early versions of the heads varied in appearance, but later editions depicted the same face— one with heavy brows, sunken eye sockets, a jutting chin, and very long ear lobes. Initially, the eyes were designed from coral.

The rock for the carvings came from the dormant volcanic crater of Rano Raraku. Inside the crater, in various stages of completion, were 400 statues. One unfinished giant was seventy feet tall and weighed 270 tons. Obsidian tools had been left there, as though the sculptors intended to continue carving, but never did.

Down the road leading from the crater were dozens of completed statues, scattered every fifty yards or so as far as the eye could see. Some were as far as ten miles away. Over 300 of the icons were transported and placed on bases. Several weighed up to thirty tons and stood twelve feet high. Experts have not worked out how they would have been transported or erected. The islanders say that the statues walked to their platforms.

Text from: Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible, and the Ignored by Juanita Rose Violins, published by Weiser Books, 2009

#moai #easter island #on this day #march

[secondblooms]

Infuse your life with some wonder, this universe is an incredibly magical experience.

Easter Island is a small island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean that belongs to Chile. The island is one of the most isolated places in the world, at the southeastern most point of the Polynesian Triangle in Oceania. The island is world famous for its enigmatic stone statues of volcanic nature called Moai. About 100 statues still stand on the island; they vary in height from 3 to 12 m. Carved from tuff, a soft volcanic rock, they consist of huge heads with elongated ears and noses. Material for the statues was quarried from the Rano Raraku crater, where modern explorers found an immense unfinished statue, 21 m (68 ft) long. Many of the statues on the burial platforms bore cylindrical, brimmed crowns of red tuff; the largest crown weighs approximately 27 tonnes.

https://www.instagram.com/grafixart_photo/

#Grafixart_photo

[seismicsilence]

view of the back of a moai (figure carving) with petroglyph carvings including a double loop and several canoe shapes; Rano Raraku, Easter Island.

[eminjbrylv]

Forged in the blazing heart of Raraku... On the trail of 12 high mages... An assassin leading the way... But who's side is he on??? Finding the corpses of the mages as they're drawn ever further... 11 corpses in all at the end... Only one mage left.. But he's different.. He has use of many warrens... 12 warrens... Assassin pleads with commander.... For the mages life... For his friends life... Thus Quick Ben is conscripted.... Into the unit that was forged in his hunting... Never were any of them the same again... First in... Last out...

Bridgeburners

#malazan #steven erikson #malazan book of the fallen #bridgeburners #raraku #kalam mekhar #quick ben #eminjbrylv

[iwillberunningfromdemons]

"As I said, Felisin, it does not matter."

"Not to you, perhaps. No, you don't understand. I saw Sha'ik Elder up close, once. Her glance swept past me, and that glance saw no-one, and at that moment, child though I was, I knew the truth of her. Of her, and of her goddess."

L'oric unstoppered the jug that had followed the food and raised it to wet a mouth that had suddenly gone dry. "And what truth was that?" he whispered, unable to meet her eyes. Instead, he drank down a deep draught of the unwatered wine.

"Oh, that we are, one and all, nothing but slaves. We are the tools she will use to achieve her desires. Beyond that, our lives mean nothing to the goddess. But with Sha'ik Reborn, I thought I saw... something different."

His peripheral vision caught her shrug.

"But," she continued, "the goddess is too strong. Her will too absolute. The poison that is indifference... and I well know that taste, L'oric. Ask any orphan, no matter how old they are now, and they will tell you the same. We all sucked at that same bitter tit."

He knew his tears had broken from his eyes, were running down his cheeks, yet could do nothing to stem them.

"And now, L'oric," she went on after a moment, "we are all revealed. Every one of us here. We are all orphans. Think on it. Bidithal, who lost his temple, his entire cult. The same for Heboric. Korbolo Dom, who once stood as an equal in rank with great soldiers, like Whiskeyjack, and Coltaine. Febryl - did you know he murdered his own father and mother? Toblakai, who has lost his own people. And all the rest of us here, L'oric - we were children of the Malazan Empire, once. And what have we done? We cast off the Empress, in exchange for an insane goddess who dreams only of destruction, who seeks to feed on a sea of blood..."

House of Chains, by Steven Erikson (Malazan Book of the Fallen #4)

#malazan #malazan book of the fallen #the malazan book of the fallen #steven erikson #fantasy #house of chains #books #fantasy literature #fantasy books #dark fantasy #epic fantasy #high fantasy #books and reading #books and quotes #book quotes #felisin younger #l'oric #whirlwind #whirlwind goddess #raraku #sha'ik

[mytherbalegwladys]

The Book of Chel (updated) - The Volcano Riddle (L’Énigme du Volcan en VF)

Le jour venu, les Black Clouds apparaissent de partout. Fify s'enfuit de l'île sans attendre Chel et les tirs des pirates la pourchassent. Elle plonge dans l'eau, et elle voyait Stuart se faire avaler par une baleine. Chel était effrayée, elle nage jusqu'à qu'un orque lui sauve la vie. Une fois arrivé sur l'île de Pâques au Chili, elle trouve les traces de Fify, mais aussi des traces de bottes. Des braconniers, elle savait qu'ils l'ont capturés. En allant dans un village, elle change de vêtements, et elle suis allé en direction du Rano Raraku. En traversant la jungle, elle est tombé sur un camp de braconniers où parmi eux se trouve l'ancien colonel, celui qui lui a crevé l’œil. Ils ont les aras de Spix et même Fify. Avec une lance à pointe, un arc et des flèches, elle neutralise les braconniers, puis elle s'approche de son ancien agresseur qui l'a reconnu. D'un coup, elle lui crevé les yeux avec son propre poignard. Après avoir libéré Fify et les aras de Spix de leurs cages, Chel appelé la police pour arrêter les braconniers. Ensuite, elle reprend la route pour Rano Raraku. En arrivant là-bas, elle trouve un énigme au sol, et elle doit résoudre cinq casse-têtes qui sont devant les statues: le Rubik's cube, le tangram, le jeu à dénouer, les nombres d’Aristote et le puzzle en Tetris. Une fois les épreuves résolu, les aras de Spix s'envolent vers leur pays natal, tandis que Chel et Fify prennent le bateau pour retourner au Royaume-Uni. Enfin arrivé au port de Milford Haven, c'était un très long voyage pour la musicienne, même Fify a eu un mal de mer. Elle croise aussi Karen qui l'offre une nouvelle moto pour qu'elle puisse aller à West London. Une fois à la maison, Chel retrouve les Gorillaz sur les lieux. Elle serre Russel et Noodle dans ses bras, puis elle embrasse 2-D. Sacré retrouvaille! En voyant Murdoc, elle lui frappe à l'endroit où ça fait mal pour le punir de les avoir mis dans pétrin. Gorillaz are back!

#Plastic Beach #Gorillaz Phase 3 #gorillaz phase 4 #humanz #île-de-pâques #chili #emo girl #gorillaz #gorillaz ocs #the book of gorillaz #spix macaw #gorillaz chel

[estilosviajespickycova]

Pascua: El misterio de los Moai

Había escuchado nombrar a la Isla de Pascua infinidad de veces, pero fue viviendo en Chile que supimos que forma parte de ella, desde 1888, cuando el marino Policarpo Toro tomó posesión y la anexó al territorio chileno. Y fue viviendo justamente en Santiago de Chile donde surgió la posibilidad de conocerla, ya que había una promoción para los residentes realmente interesante. Armamos entonces las valijas con lo necesario y hacia allí fuimos.

Ubicada en el Pacífico Sur a más de 3.200 kms. de la costa del Caribe chileno, su superficie total es apenas mayor a 160 kms. cuadrados. Su capital es Hanga Roa, donde viven la mayoría de sus habitantes, aunque la isla cuenta con 10.000 residentes aproximadamente. Fue declarada Patrimonio de la Humanidad desde 1995.

Luego de casi seis horas de viaje desde Santiago de Chile llegamos a la Isla de Rapa Nui, así es como se la conoce en su lengua nativa, y su significado es isla grande. Arribamos a un pequeño aeropuerto, donde al bajar del avión nos recibieron colocando un collar de flores en el cuello a cada uno.

Nuestro hotel estaba rodeado de naturaleza selvática, sin demasiado lujo, pero muy pintoresco y con guiños de la cultura del lugar en todos los ambientes. Al ser fanáticos de la gastronomía con productos del mar nos dimos todos los gustos en este viaje ya que es su comida típica.

La isla es maravillosa por su cultura, su historia y por la naturaleza que la rodea entre volcanes, acantilados y playas. Los misteriosos Moai dispersos en varios lugares de la isla te remontan a épocas ancestrales.

Los Moai son grandes esculturas de figuras humanas realizadas en roca volcánica. De más de 1.500 años de antigüedad, se cree que tan solo son cabezas de gran tamaño, pero la realidad es que 2 o 3 metros bajo tierra se esconden sus cuerpos.

La isla solo tiene dos playas, una de ellas es la de Anakena. Su arena es del tipo volcánica y sus aguas de temperatura perfecta, con un color turquesa impresionante, como no había visto antes. En nuestros 4 días en la isla planteamos nuestros días de tal manera que el paseo cultural fuera por la mañana y por la tarde pudiéramos venir a esta playa. Debo aclarar que viajé cursando un embarazo y con mi marido y mi hijo de 3 años por lo que la idea de estar relajados también en la playa resultaba tentadora.

Los paseos obligados son Ahu Tongariki, en el que podrás encontrar una hilera de cerca de 15 Moais de tamaño completo. Es el monumento megalítico más importante de toda la Polinesia. La sensación que se respira frente a este centro ceremonial es indescriptible, la paz y tranquilidad que te transmiten te envuelven. Se recomienda hacer este paseo en el amanecer ya que el sol comienza a salir por detrás de estas figuras. Su entorno es mágico también, con el mar detrás y el volcán al frente.

Otro de los lugares imperdibles si estás en la isla es la cantera Rano Raraku. En la ladera del volcán extinto podrás encontrar muchos de los Moai dispersos por el camino, ya que se supone que de allí se extrajo la piedra con la que fueron realizados. Es el lugar donde mayor número de esculturas podrás encontrar. El espectáculo de ver estos gigantes, algunos a medio hacer, y el contraste con el verde de la montaña hacen de este lugar único verdaderamente. Se debe llevar calzado cómodo ya que el paseo va serpenteando por la ladera y tiene momentos algo empinados.

Otro sitio de interés es la aldea ceremonial de Orongo, que está situada al borde del cráter del volcán Rano Kau. Fue construida en honor al Dios Make Make y una vez al año se realizaba la competencia del hombre pájaro en la que participaban todas las tribus de esta isla. Hoy en día es un yacimiento arqueológico muy importante. Más allá de que existen carteles en el centro de visitantes con la historia del lugar, se recomienda ir con un guía turístico ya que además de brindar espectaculares vistas por estar en la cima del volcán, la información que uno puede llevarse te acerca más a la cultura Rapa Nui.

Por último, se encuentra Ana Kakenga, la cueva de las dos ventanas, una de las más visitadas también. Su origen se debió a la salida del flujo de lava hacia el mar. El ingreso se encuentra al ras del suelo y no está correctamente señalizado, por lo que puede pasar desapercibido. Hacer este paseo con niños es posible. Al principio su recorrido es algo estrecho, no apto para claustrofóbicos, y también algo oscuro, por lo que una linterna para esta primera etapa es recomendable. Luego se llega a un amplio sector con luz natural que se divide en dos caminos, que terminan en estos dos grandes ventanales. Este paseo nos ofrece vistas increíbles de la isla por lo que es una experiencia para disfrutar.

El viaje a la Isla de Pascua es un paseo inolvidable que nos remonta a una cultura atrapante con sus enigmáticas figuras y paisajes imponentes.

Originally published at on https://estilosviajes.com/January 18, 2023.

#Isla De Pascua #Chile #Viajes #Moai

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