Giant stone figures watch over Rapa Nui ... hiking on gently sloping green hills while being watched by huge stone heads - imposing relics of a mysterious past - visiting Rapa Nui is money ...

On average, they stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons, human heads-on-torsos carved in the ... and the significance of the nearly 900 giant moai that punctuate Easter Island's barren landscape.