Angkor Wat

---

name: Easter Island
country: Chile
Unesco World Heritage Site since 1995

Easter Island is one of the most remote islands in the world. It is famous for its stone figures called moai, where were called by a long-forgotten civilization. There are hundreds of these moais in Easter Island, with the largest ones standing to 10 meters tall. Most of these moais were quarried from a volcanic crater called Rano Raraku.

Today Easter Island is dependent on tourism as its main source of income. As a way to promote its culture to tourists, the island holds the annual Tapati Rapa Nui festival, which falls around late January and early February each year.

Read more about Easter Island in EarthDocumentary.



Aerial view of Angkor Wat
Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Ahu_Tongariki.jpg, used under GNU Free Documentation License



Moai at Rano Raraku
by Aurbina, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Moai_Rano_raraku.jpg, available in the public domain

Moais of Hangaroa
Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Hangaroa_Moais.jpg, used under GNU Free Documentation License