CHILE: Empanadas on Easter Island
GUEST POST: Author Kyle G. Roesler describes his experiences eating empanada on Easter Island, the setting for his latest novel The Navel of the World.
When I travel, I’m seeking three things: moments of transcendent beauty, unique culinary experiences and inspiration for the short stories and novels I write. I found all three during a 2015 visit to Easter Island with my wife, Angela.
Transcendent beauty? Well, the volcanic, rain forest carpeted island surrounded by hundreds of miles of nothing but deep blue Pacific is a fantastic tableau. But, of course, that’s not why most people visit. The moai statues, created with hand tools hundreds of years ago, are the eternal draw to this isolated corner of the world, further from other civilians than any other (including astronauts on the International Space Station!). Getting a chance to see the moai, both the completed ones and the ones in-work in the original quarry, is an experience like no other.
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