Rapa Nui is in the Southern Pacific, to 3.700 km of the Chilienne coast. It is often indicated under the name of island of Easter, owing to the fact that the day when the first European visitors put the foot at it was the Easter Day 1722.
It was here the seat of an old civilization which had left there, and there, of the clusters of immense sculptures out of stones called moais. One counts more than 600 moais on the island, from which some reach 10m height.
The length of one stay in the Easter Island east sometimes dictated by the schedules of the airline companies, but even a visit of two or three jourspermet to take part in excursion a one day whole covering several of the principal archeological sites and offering a good outline of the island.

The Easter Island knows a semi-tropical climate characterized by an average annualtemperature of 20,3°C. The hottest months are December, January and February, while the freshest season extends from June to August and requires sometimes the port of a pullover or a light jacket. May is essential for its part like the most rainy month.

No one really does not know with certainty from where the first inhabitants of the Easter Island, why they decided to settle here, which could be the frequency of their relationship with the foreigners, nor what really justified them to carve and had suddenly set up their imposing stone monuments. One does not know oneself besides either how they managed to transport these enormous blocks of stone, of a considerable weight, sites from which they were extracted on their current sites.