Easter Island: Where Superstitions are Good Excuses

Anne Fairlie, Manager of travel sales for iExplore, is spending a week in Chile--including a trip to Easter Island. Check out her latest Easter Island blog post!

Touring today with Marcelo who is also the owner of the small inn where we are staying. I guess this is one way to supplement the family income: leave the wife to tend to the housework and he takes the tourists for a drive.

Photo taken by Ian Sewell, July, 2006. Ahu Ton...

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One of the many superstitions that we learned about is this: the MOAI have fallen down for a reason, so do not attempt to bring them back on their feet.

This seemed quite reasonable until we moved on to another part of the island where, we were told, the Japanese donated a huge pile of money to rebuild an AHU (platform) and place the MOAI upright again.

So I guess, in Easter Island like many places, superstitions are good excuses sometimes.