Anakena Beach
Easter Island

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A
little of of Rapa Nui's (Easter Island) history
Pollen
samples indicate the existence of forests of trees, including huge
palms around 200 AD, and human habitation from somewhere between 300
AD and 800 AD depending on who you listen to. Large fishing canoes,
palm shelters, edible nuts and wood fires would have comfortably supplied
the people with the necessities of life. More...

Anakena
beach. Photo by Jim.
Anakena
is the best beach on Rapa Nui, one of only two decent strands of sand
(Hanga Roa has a couple of very small rocky beaches) and the other
- neighbouring Ovahe - doesn't have any tree shade, a good road leading
to it, nor moai overseeing the marine action.

Palms give shade and locals sell drinks and barbied chicken. The beach
is hardly used by humans other than weekends and public holidays.

Anakena
beach's moai; note the funky hats and the fine un-eroded features thanks to a few hundred years buried
under sand - later revived and re-established by Thor Heyerdahl. They
also have the finest back carvings of all Rapa Nui moai.
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