Rapa Nui - Easter Island

After some consultation with fellow travellers and some back-and-forth, we decided that we should back-track to Chile to visit Easter Island.  So leaving after leaving from Cusco, sleeping in the Santiago airport and travelling almost 7,000 kms one way, we arrived in Hanga Roa, the only town on this 164 sqkm island 3,700kms from the South American coast.  Wow...