Sentences with phrase «island moai»

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From Miami, the jet will whisk you away, crisscrossing the globe, hitting five continents on a 25 - day voyage to places like Easter Island, with its mystical «moai» statues; Nicaragua, to tour a volcano by helicopter; Australia, where you'll taste wine in the Margaret River Valley; and Tbilisi, Georgia, for a private choral performance at a sixth - century church.

But over the course of several centuries it was totally destroyed, mainly through an ego - driven competition among neighboring clans to produce more and bigger moais, the giant statues for which the island is so famous.

Spinney says that the prevailing idea in 2001 was that the colossal statues or moai on Rapa Nui (Easter Island)...

Making moai — the haunting statues of Easter Island — involved carving a range of volcanic and sea - made materials, and then moving them into place.

Easter Island or rather Rapa Nui as the islanders themselves tend to call it, is home to some of the strangest and most remarkable monuments to be found Making moai — the haunting statues of Easter Island — involved carving a range of volcanic and sea - made materials, and then moving them into place.

Easter Island is famous for its 887 extant monumental statues, called moai, created by the early Rapa Nui people.

In March, we heard about the Finnish tourist who chipped an earlobe off one of Easter Island's moai.

Easter Island's most famous attraction is the moai statues, enormous head - and - torso blocks carved from the stone of the Rano Raraku volcano.

Thick - bodied moai towered over the bed of the Île de Pâques (Easter Island) room.

Thought to have been sculpted by early settlers between AD 700 and AD 1500, some 887 moai dot Easter Island, with the 15 giant heads of Ahu Tongariki the real stars of the show.

You'll marvel at the large statues in various stages of completion, enjoy the second - oldest volcano on the island, visit the topknot - quarry where all the pukaos that were placed on top of the moais were made, and much more.

The giant moai monoliths of Easter Island have beckoned to travellers for centuries.

Whats unique here are the hundreds of moai, massive stone statues that dot the island.

Large and awkward, it is painted to resemble stone, recalling the moai statues on Easter Island and perhaps suggesting the psychic stasis of objectification.

Easter Island, famous for its massive monumental statues called moai, is a special territory of Chile.