I know some people who don't agree with me, but I think this land carries a deep sadness within itself. As a visitor, you are overwhelmed by this feeling, along with the perplexity generated by the sight of these monumental statues scattered all over the place. Most of the population has been sold into slavery in the seventeenth (eighteenth?) century to work in South American silver mines. Today, the people of the island are disconnected from their past and the energy that leaded them to carve these amazing structures. The movie 'Rapa Nui' gives a possible explanation about the conflicts that put an end to this story.
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