Some of the houses at Orongo, a village high on the south edge of the Rano Kau crater. The islanders lived in strange elongated oval houses. All about 1.5 meters deep by 10 meters long. They are dotted about all over the island. They had no windows, just a small entrance door, and were about 1.5m high inside. They tended to be grouped in clusters (villages) facing a moai statue or the sea.
Four more shots of the 2 km wide Rano Kau volcano crater. The edges were 460 meters high, and it was 250 meters down to the black lake with it's strangely shaped reed islands in the crater. If you click on the image to expand it you can see Lidy on the edge of one of the shots to give some scale to the image.
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