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2014 South America
Iguazu Falls | Urubamba Valley | Machu Picchu/Cusco | Easter Island
 Sculpture and Modern Buildings, Vitacura District, Santiago, Chile |
 Meditation with Gong in Park, Vitacura District, Santiago, Chile |
 Landed at Mataveri Airport, Easter Island, Chile |
 wearing lei of welcome at Easter Island airport |
 Map of Easter Island |
 Introduction to Tahai site by our archeologist guide, Dr. Sergio Rapu Haoa (friend of Thor Heyerdahl, museum founder, governor, and hotelier on Easter Island |
 Stone foundation of house at Tahai, Easter Island |
 Reconstructed Rapa Nui thatch-roofed house at Tahai, Easter Island |
 Restored statue (moai, with coral eyes and red lava hat) at Tahai site, Easter Island my video
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 Boat harbor at Hanga Roa, principle town on Easter Island |
 Moai on platform (ahu) at Mata Ote Vaikava, near Hanga Roa, Easter Island |
 Dr. Sergio Rapu Haoa discussing fine stone work (similar to Incan) and old moai at Vinapu, Easter Island |
 Red lava pukao (topknot or hat for statue) at Vinapu, Easter Island |
 Buying a Chilean onyx moai carved by "Koro", Akahanga, Easter Island |
 On the "beach" at Akahanga with old moai, Easter Island |
 Moai statues remaining at Rano Raraku crater, the major stone quarry on Easter Island my video |
 Two moai at Rano Raraku quarry, Easter Island My painting
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 The visit of a lifetime, Rano Raraku quarry, Easter Island |
 The biggest moai (60 feet long), unfinished, at Rano Raraku quarry, Easter Island |
 Old-style kneeling moai at Rano Raraku with Ahu Tongariki along shoreline, Easter Island |
 Wild horses running by the Rano Raraku quarry, Easter Island my video |
 15 Moai at Ahu Tongariki (including one of 86 tons), Easter Island my video |
 "No Climbing" on Ahu (platform) or Moai at Ahu Tongariki, Easter Island |
 Anakena, the only sand beach on Easter Island |
 Moai with backs to the beach at Anakena, Easter Island |
 Sunset at Hanga Roa, Easter Island |
 Children's dance competition, Hanga Roa festival, Easter Island |
 Landing craft at Hanga Piko harbor, used to offload all cargo from the monthly supply ship to Easter Island |
 Boats at Hanga Piko harbor, near airport. Easter Island |
 Boat "San Francisco" with German guide touring Motu Nui (bird island), Easter Island |
 Cobalt-blue water (not much plankton) near Motu Nui (Bird Island), Easter Island |
 A masked booby (Sula dactylatra) on Motu Nui, Easter Island |
 Bird Islands (Motu Kao Kao, Motu Iti, and farthest out Motu Nui), from Orongo, Easter Island |
 Young ladies being filmed near Birdman cult houses at Orongo, Easter Island |
 Stone walled and roofed house for Birdmag cult at Orongo, Easter Island |
 Rano Kau (crater containing fresh rainwater and marshy vegetation) at Orongo, Easter Island my video |
 Seven equal-sized moai facing spring equinox sunset at Aku Akivi, Easter Island |
 Moai at Aku Akivi, the only inland platform for moai. Their villagers found water in nearby volcanic caves. Easter Island |
 Waiting for red snapper at traditional "umu" cookout, Hanga Roa, Easter Island |
 Evening clouds from Hanga Roa, Easter Island |
 Padre Sebastian Engelbert's church in Hanga Roa, Easter Island |
 Interior of Hanga Roa church, Easter Island |
 Wood carvings in Hanga Roa church, Easter Island |
 Farewell to moai at airport, Easter Island |
 Treasures from Peru and Easter Island |
