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Easter Island
Rapa Nui

Adventure Life, the South America specialist, operates a good-value 5 day Easter Island Tour

Rano Raraku volcano and stone quarry, Easter Island, Chile

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Tongariki by day, with one of many overturned moai.

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A little of of Rapa Nui's [Easter Island] history:

Pollen samples indicate the existence of forests of trees, including huge palms around 200 AD, and human habitation from somewhere between 300 AD and 800 AD depending on who you listen to. Large fishing canoes, palm shelters, edible nuts and wood fires would have comfortably supplied the people with the necessities of life. More...

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