Can I travel on Easter Island?

Easter Island can be visited.

Every August and September, when seagulls come, islanders gather at the seaside of Orongo. Each tribe elects a player to swim down the cliff to the sea and find bird eggs on a big reef 2 kilometers away. The first player to get the bird's egg immediately swam back to the island and handed it to his chief, who became the "bird man" of that year.

throughout the year, he was worshipped as a god by islanders. Swimming for eggs has been stopped for more than 1 years because sharks often attack it. However, sacred ceremonies and colorful makeup performances are still preserved to this day, and "Bird Man" is still the worship god of islanders. In order to meet the needs of tourism, the activity time is changed to February every year so that more tourists can witness this strange custom.

Topographic features of Easter Island

The shape of Easter Island is an irregular triangle, which is 23km long from east to west, 11km wide from north to south and covers an area of 118km2. The whole island is composed of volcanic tuff, and there are still several volcanoes, with rugged ground and barren land.

this hilly island is not a part of the subsidence land mass, but a typical high island in the ocean formed by some volcanoes rising from the seabed. Three extinct volcanoes, mainly composed of tuff (a porous rock formed by solid volcanic fragments) and its lava flow, make the island a unique triangle.

There are some parasitic tuff craters and volcanic cones scattered in the territory, while there are many eroded lava areas in other areas, which are full of obsidian. The stone-free surface soil is barren; The places suitable for large-scale farming are mainly distributed in Garroa and Mataveri areas in the southwest, the plains in the southwest of Vaihu and Rano Raraku volcanoes, and the prehistoric Poike Peninsula in the eastern corner of the island.

above content reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Easter Island