Easter Island or Rapa Nui (to its native Polynesian inhabitants) must be one of the most remote and isolated places in the world. The connection to Chile is hard to feel when the distance is 3700 km! The island is world famous for its tight-lipped statues that are spread across the island. These statues might be what most people associate with the island. Ever since its discovery Easter Island or Rapa Nui has most often been associated with the many imaginative theories about the origin of the people and the statues. In addition to the mysterious statues, we came across some mysterious graffiti.
I stayed in a bungalow just 10 minutes walk into town. One of the days we walked along the coast to find a restaurant by the sea where we could watch the sunset. Somewhere halfway to town, we passed some scary looking graffiti. Both the motifs themselves, but also the area with black, jagged flags. The stretch is deserted. The sea is on one side and on the other a campsite and a hotel set inside a garden. We tried to interprid the meaning.
Later we tried to ask around for the meaning. We were told that the hotel is probably built on a graveyard and the inhabitants had disagreed to that.. That did seem as an explanation. We didn't take this road back to our bungalow! At that time it was already dark!
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