Easter Island - Mysteries & Myths
joseph rosendo's travelscope

Joseph travels to the most remote inhabited place on earth during his Easter Island adventure. Located more than two thousand miles from the coast of Chile, Rapa Nui (the island's native name) offers a world of mysteries that have remained unanswered for centuries. Questions abound surrounding the origins of the Rapa Nui culture, their enormous carved stone moai and the cause of the Rapa Nui people's ecological and natural disasters. Although one question invariably leads to another, Joseph attempts to explain what often eludes explanation while he spotlights the amazing journey of the Rapa Nui people from the shores of Polynesia more than 1,500 years ago through their glory days and times of turmoil to the vibrant culture that flourishes today.

Episode Duration: 26 minutes and 46 seconds

Episode Number: 601

About Joseph Rosendo's Travelscope:

The Daytime Emmy-winning travel series Travelscope- now re-titled JOSEPH ROSENDO'S TRAVELSCOPE- scales new heights of adventure, natural splendor and cultural richness this season.

Host Joseph Rosendo journeys from the California coast to the islands of Hong Kong and to Chile's Tierra del Fuego.

Along the way, he encounters the heights of natural beauty in the Cariboo-Chilcotin Coast region of British Columbia, celebrates Christmas in Switzerland and circumnavigates the tip of South America.

The series' hallmark remains the rich cultural interchanges between Joseph and the local population.

He joins the parade of medieval guilds during Zurich's spring festival, shares devotions with a holy man in a rock-hewn church in Lalibela, Ethiopia and explores the mysteries behind the stone figures on Easter Island.


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Mon, Oct 7 7:00 A.M. Northwest Ontario - Lake Superior and Beyond     NH Explore (11.2)
Mon, Oct 7 7:00 P.M. Northern Ethiopia - Ancient History and Spiritual Present     NHPBS (11.1)
Tue, Oct 8 7:00 A.M. Thousand Islands - A Canadian Bi-National Adventure     NH Explore (11.2)
Tue, Oct 8 10:30 A.M. Mekong River Adventure - Part 2     NH Create (11.4)
Tue, Oct 8 5:30 P.M. Mekong River Adventure - Part 2     NH Create (11.4)
Tue, Oct 8 7:00 P.M. Land without Limits - The Cariboo-Chilcotin-Coast Region of British Columbia, Canada     NHPBS (11.1)
Tue, Oct 8 10:30 P.M. Mekong River Adventure - Part 2     NH Create (11.4)
Wed, Oct 9 7:00 A.M. Northeast Ontario - Canada's Canoe Culture and First Nations People     NH Explore (11.2)
Thu, Oct 10 7:00 A.M. San Antonio's Fiesta - Ole!     NH Explore (11.2)
Thu, Oct 10 10:30 A.M. Taiwan Matsu Festival & Islands     NH Create (11.4)
Thu, Oct 10 5:30 P.M. Taiwan Matsu Festival & Islands     NH Create (11.4)
Thu, Oct 10 7:00 P.M. Sechselauten - Switzerland's Spring Festival     NHPBS (11.1)
Thu, Oct 10 10:30 P.M. Taiwan Matsu Festival & Islands     NH Create (11.4)
Fri, Oct 11 7:00 A.M. Following the reformation Trail in Switzerland and Germany - Part 1     NH Explore (11.2)
Fri, Oct 11 7:00 P.M. Dreamin' California's Coast - Malibu to Big     NHPBS (11.1)
Mon, Oct 14 7:00 A.M. Following the reformation Trail in Switzerland and Germany - Part 2     NH Explore (11.2)


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