It’s more fun in The Philippines
The Philippines is an awesome place! Things really are “More fun in The Philippines”
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Why Travel Insurance is Important, a tour of Chartis’ Travel Guard center in Kuala Lumpur
I have been lucky so far that I have never been in any situation where travel insurance would have been handy. I have never lost a bag, I have never lost travel documents. I have never been hospitalized while on travel or in any serious accident. But as the most wise Ate Vi has once said “you can never can tell.”
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Easter Island – April 1-4, 2012
One of the “must-see” items on my bucket list has been to see Easter Island located 2,180 miles (3,510 kilometers) west of the coast of Chile in South America and is the south easternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle. Ever since I was a child, I was always fascinated by pictures of the “big heads” and the theories over who built them and why (of course, these included the “they were built by aliens” theory).
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Ana Te Pahu and Ana Te Pora, Easter Island – April 3, 2012
From Ahu Akiviki, a little of change of scene. This time it is all about caves.The caves are a series of tunnels formed by lava flows which were used during wartime to hide from the enemies or for ceremonies.
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Ahu Akivi, Easter Island – April 3, 2012
While not as grandiose as Ahu Tongariki with its 15 colossal moai… or as beufully set as those on Anakena Beach… my favorite set of moai would have to be at Ahu Akivi with its seven moai. The location is also popularly known as Siete Moai.
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Puna Pao, Easter Island – April 3, 2012
Puna Pau… the quarry for the “pukao” also known as the “red hats”. The pukao or topknots are not really “hats.” but rather, they are the hair of the statues,
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Anakena Beach, Easter Island – April 2, 2012
Anakena is a white coral sand beach within Rapa Nui National Park. There are two Ahus on Anakena. One with six moai… another with one.
According to island oral traditions, Anakena was the landing place of Hotu Matu’a, a Polynesian chief who led a two canoe settlement party here and founded the first settlement on Rapa Nui.
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Ahu Te Pito Kura, Easter Island – April 2, 2012
From the majestic Ahu Tongariki, we make our way to Ahu Te Pito Kura. While hardly as impressive as Tongariki, Te Pito Kura’s claim to fame is that it has the largest moai transported from Rano Raraku to an Ahu and erected called Paro, 10 meters high and weighing 92 tones.
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Ahu Tongariki, Easter Island – April 2, 2012
Ahu Tongariki was the main centre and capital of the Hotu Iti, the eastern confederation of the Rapanui.
Ahu Tongariki was substantially restored in the 1990s by a multidisciplinary team headed by archaeologists, in a five year project carried out under an official agreement of the Chilean Government, the University of Chile, and a group of Japanese.
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Rano Raraku, Easter Island – April 2, 2012
Rano Raraku is what I consider, the most awesome part of touring Easter Island… a visit to the Moai quarry… the volcano of Rano Raraku, where all the Moai on the island were carved from. Of the 887 Moai on the island, 397 of these are still at the quarry… still waiting to be transported to their Ahus all over the island.
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