The most REMOTE community on EARTH.... Part One.

Steemers.. let me share some pictures with a tale from our adventure to the most remote community on earth, Isla De Pascua AKA Rapa Nui AKA the earth's belly button....... AKA Easter Island !!

I have always been intrigued by Easter Island. You always see it in conspiracy videos these strange heads and sculptures on this remote island with all this speculation surrounding it all. I had to get there to see it with my own eyes and talk to the locals about it.

I was visiting friends in Santiago Chile with my girlfriend and we had the chance to visit Easter Island for 4 nights.
Now the flight from Santiago is about 6 hours. Basicly half way home back to Brisbane Australia, so we had to fly from Chile to Easter Island then back to chile then back to Australia. Def worth the mission though, just goes to show how isolated this island really is. A 6 hour plane ride or 7 days by boat, you choose :)

Arriving on the Island

Once we got onto the Island we were greeted by our legendary bungalow owner Christoff . He hooked us up with some lay's around our necks ( true Island style greeting ) then showed us quickly around the town on our way to our bungalow.
View from our bungalow, a wild horse just cruising past

Right across from where we were staying must have been the dead center of the island, because a old Rapa Nui burial site lays there. Now we were not allowed to be buried there... Why not you ask, well it's because we are not dead yet. ;)
Sorry enough of the shit dad jokes haha.
Not far from this was a awesome cave with some original hand paintings on the ceiling

Sweet cave discovery

Cave painting about the race for the bird egg

We walked into town to hire a motorbike for our stay so we could explore the island on our own. The dirt bike they gave me was pretty worn out and I got it started once then it just kept dying on me and the mechanics couldn't get it started and all the bikes where booked out. So we ended up with this sturdy steed for our island adventures

Our hi powered scooter that we explored the Island on and off road with, through puddles and pot holes, in the dark with no headlight using our phone as a headlight, chasing the sunrise through the pouring rain and reversing out of a bulls path.. this lil rig did it all!

Now the first thing you start to think when you begin to explore the island is " where are all the trees????" This was the first questions that lead to the story of the Rapa Nui demise.

Not to many trees as you can see

As we rode around the island we noticed that there is more wild horses and cows on the island them humans which was super cool !!

Wild horses blocking the road

As we rode around the island, and didn't see another human for over 1 hour it started to kick in how isolated we really were. Only 1 flight comes in and out every day.

Now we are on an island in the middle of the ocean.... the weather was very dramatic . It would be hot and sunny where we stayed then we would ride to the other side of the island and would go through a crazy storm then back into nice and sunny. We tried to get to the Moais of Ahu Tongariki for the sun rise every morning .

This is my favorite pic I got at Easter Island of the Moais of Ahu Tongariki

But we never made it there for sunrise, cause every morning we would get half way there in the pitch black with our phone as a headlight, dodging huge potholes, (and mind you the scooter has no suspension haha so was a super bumpy ride in the dark ) then we would get stuck in pouring rain. and have to turn back cause it was just too damn cold and wet to keep riding. But I did get to snap this pic of the sunrise with a moai overlooking the land.

Golden hour on the island

We learned that all the Moai on the island have their backs to the ocean, as the Rapa Nui tribes believed that they were the only people in the world, so anything bad that would happen must come from within the island so the Moai was there to scare of the evil and protect the community.

After the failed sunrise adventure, we came back to dry off and warm up. We went into town and seen a turtle swimming around in the bay. So I got the gopro out and waited till he swam up close to the steeps so I could put the cam in the water and get a pic of this legend.

Turtle life

I went to the local shop to grab some beers as it looked like the rain was going to set in for a hour or 2. I got the beers home (and now this was the first regret I have, from my entire South America adventure. ) I crack open the can and have a big skull and though this tastes a bit weird..... I have a closer inspection of the can and i bought non alcoholic beer..... hahahah shiiiiiiit full rookie mistake. So I left them in the fridge for the cleaners when we left. But I guess they would do what any normal human would do and pour it down the drain, but for some reason I just couldn't bring myself to wasting beer like that.... even though it was non alcoholic beer.

None the less We found out that not far from were we where there was a megalith wall. Now this megalith wall was made in the exact same way as the megalith walls we seen in Cusco Peru. These are the only 2 places on this entire dirt ball where people built megaliths like this. So crazy to think how is that even possible???? These 2 locations are so far away from each other.

Here is a image from google of the easter Island Megalith as we never made it to this spot stay tuned for the story

Megaliths of Cusco Peru

So we get on our trusty steed, our red scooter and headed of to find this megalith.

It has been raining all morning so there is a lot of water on the road. We get to the turn off for the site and its all dirt road...So we rip it up the road sliding everywhere in the mud and we come to a corner ( The only way to get to the site) and the entire dirt road is under water and standing right in the middle of the mini lake was standing a HUGE bull...
I ask Renee to get of the scooter quietly and not make any sudden movements as we are on a bright red scooter. I thought he would try and charge at us HAHAHA. I kill the motor and back the scooter up nearly slipping over in the mud. The bull does not break eye contact the entire time, now we have a good 5m distance between us, I turn the bike around and we get out of there with the quickness and head to Anakena Beach.

The walk to the beach