Easter Island – The Memorial of One Imposing Religious Culture

Eastern Island is often said to be the most magnificent museum outdoors. With its Polynesian cultural spirit, it is unusual destination because of their enigmatic giant sculptures – a real mystery for the science, ancient rituals of Oceania and more unique facts. Eastern Island offers charming shores, crystalline blue waters and mystical paths, which are perfect for riding. A big part of the island is covered with volcano cones and tuffs of wide streams of cooled down lava.
Eastern Island is located in the south-east part of the Pacific Ocean and it is famous with the hundreds ancient stone statues with human faces. The strange thing here is that all faces are looking at the land, but not at the ocean. Their bodies are presented only from the waist to the head so they do not have legs and their height varies form 1 to 12 meters. There are a few suggestions why these statues are built. Someone say that they are the face of heroes or chieftains of the tribe. Others claim that these are the faces of enslavers who conquered the island but nobody knows exactly why they have been built. Everything related to the past of the island is veiled in mystery.
It is known that the Dutch sailors, who saw the island first in the Sunday of Easter in 1772-th have stick of several races on Easter Island – there were living black, red-skinned and even white people! Their life together has been harmonious and complete. Were they the builders of the statues – that is a question whose answer coudn`t be found by the Dutch sailors.
The island is included in the UNESCO World Heritage Site. Sometimes the name is used in plural number because of the two coral riffs located near the island.