Sentences with word «moai»

Hundreds of iconic moai statues stand testament to the vibrant civilization that once inhabited Easter Island, but there are far fewer clues about why this civilization mysteriously vanished.

Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island (a name given to it by Europeans), is located in the southeast Pacific and is famous for its approximately 1,000 carvings of moai, human - faced statues.

There's Mekabon, the tiny robot who launches his head like a boomerang, and Tokotoko, a sunglasses - wearing moai head with arms that somehow moves at mach speed despite lacking legs.

The country's top executives, with MOAI Minister U Myint Hlaing and other government officials, recognized high - performing farmers and farmer groups, extraordinary farm products, and organizations — the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) included — that have supported the development of the country's agriculture sector.

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)...

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

I'm partnering with LATAM Airlines to bring you travel stories from Argentina, Brazil, and Chile — including the isle of the mysterious moai statues.

In May of this year, the Myanmar government is scheduled to launch its new rice sector development strategy, developed by MOAI with technical assistance from IRRI.

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

We will leave the bikes here and start trekking to the see some of the unfinished moais.

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

At least 288 moai once stood on massive stone platforms...

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.

The giant stone moai idols are its main sights.

Ahu Akahanga is between two other ahu (moai sites) that are hardly ever visited by tourists, Uru Uranga Te Mahina which is a little further west along the coast and Oroi to the east.

The statue is Hoa Hakananai'a, an Easter Island moai looted by the crew of the H.M.S. Topaze in 1868 and presented to Queen Victoria, who presented it in turn to the British Museum.

Takuro Kotaka & Haruka Iharada invited me to give a lecture about political art practices in Thailand and discuss on the future of art in the event «MOAI vol.

The country's top executives, with MOAI Minister U Myint Hlaing and other government officials, recognized high - performing farmers and farmer groups, extraordinary farm products, and organizations — the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) included — that have supported the development of the country's agriculture sector.

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.

Most visitors now make the 3,500 km trip from mainland Chile by plane, enticed by the mysterious moai (carved stone heads) that keep a watchful eye over the coastline.

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

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.

Combined with a particular diet and support network of friends or «moai,» ikigai is helping people live longer on Okinawa as it gives them purpose, he says, who provides a karate master, fisherman and great - great - great - grandmother, all of whom are more than 100 years old, as examples.

The largest ahu on the island, this magnificent platform holds fifteen moai.

Farmers from different regions of Myanmar took part in activities organized by the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation (MOAI).

Tour 2: (40 or 50 kms)- departure from Hanga Roa, visiting Vaihu, Akahanga where you will see Ahu and Moais, you also will visit the Rano Rararuko were the moais were made.

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

Later in the afternoon many tours have Anakena Beach as the last stop after a day of visiting all of the moai along the southern / eastern coast.

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

But that's not all... you'll travel to Easter Island, the most remote inhabited island on Earth and the largest open - air museum with 400 moais, ruins, and temples.

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 most familiar features of the island are the moai statues.

Important: Make sure you keep the entrance ticket you buy here because it will also give you 5 days to enter the Rano Raraku site (where the moais were made) for free.

Most tours leave Ahu Akahanga and head directly to Rano Raraku where almost all moai were carved out of the volcanic rock.

All you can see here now though is an ahu in ruins with all of its moai fallen face down or on their backs, most likely toppled after the clan wars (as were all others on the island).

The moai head in the bottom right corner of the gate.

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

A vertical slab rose from the grass directly in front of the Statoil building, imprinted with an image of one of Easter Island's moai — the haunting stone figures carved at the potent pinnacle of the great, but vanished, Rapa Nui civilization.

She wants you to defeat a moai minstrel with the Hot Lick ability to prove your worth.

She tells you to kill a moai minstrel with the hot lick ability.