Easter Island Travel Destination
Traveling to Easter Island, Chile the most isolated inhabited island in the world, and a fabulous Chile travel destination is getting easier and easier. With today’s advancing technology and a growing tourist industry in Latin America, you don’t need to wait any longer to travel to this culturally riveting and picturesque island paradise. With the majestic quality of being stranded on an island, now picture all the mysterious monolithic heads scattered all over the island. Here on an island 11 km wide and 23 km long you’ll find nearly a thousand ancient Polynesian statues strewn along a powerfully beautiful coastline or littering the slopes of an extinct volcano.
Easter Island became an annex of Chile in 1888. The official count of statues on the island is 887 and the island is a World Heritage site. The name Easter Island comes from the Dutch explorer, Jacob Roggeveen, who discovered the island on Easter Sunday in 1722. In Spanish, the official name is Isla de Pascua translated Easter Island in English.
Easter Island’s moderate climate and scant vegetation make for easy cross country hiking, and you won’t find yourself blocked by fences and private property signs very often. You could also tour the island by mountain bike, available from several locations at US$10 a day. If you surf or scuba dive, there are many opportunities here. A minimum of five days are needed to see the main sights of Easter Island, and two weeks would be far better. The variety of things to see and do will surprise you, and you’ll be blessed with some unforgettable memories.
