Easter Island - Chile (TRAVELING 360)

Easter Island

Is an island of Chile located in Polynesia, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean 3700 km from Caldera.

The island is one of the main tourist destinations of the country due to its natural beauty and its mysterious ancestral culture of rapanui ethnicity, whose most notable vestige corresponds to huge statues known as Moai.

To preserve these characteristics, the government administers Conaf Rapa Nui National Park, while Unesco declared this park as a World Heritage Site in 1995.

The island has a cool tropical climate, this is a rare tropical climate typical of oceanic islands of intermediate latitudes (for example the Canaries), because it fuses mild temperatures throughout the year and very mild winters, lacking frost or extreme cold. Easter Island and Sala and Gomez Island are the only places in Chile where a tropical climate prevails.

At the end of January and beginning of February of each year the festival of Tapati is celebrated, the main artistic and cultural activity of Rapa Nui, which begins the first week of February and lasts approximately 2 weeks.

Definitely a place you should visit before you die.