Isiqithi sase-Easter sijonge kuJulayi uzayo, xa ukusithwa kwelanga yinyanga kuya kuphosa ilitye eliqingqiweyo kwindawo ekude ebumnyameni - kunye nokuqaqamba kokukhanya kwehlabathi.
Kodwa sele iphosa isiqithi sasePolynesia esibharhileyo kwindlela yaso yesiphithiphithi, njengoko indawo yaseChile isokola ukumelana neqela elivuyisayo lababaleki be-eclipse abafuna ukubona umsitho kwelinye lawona mhlaba ungaqondakaliyo emhlabeni. .
“Akusekho gumbi, sibhukhwe ngokupheleleyo,” utshilo uSabrina Atamu, igosa lezolwazi kwi-Easter Island yeNational Tourist Service, uxelele i-AFP.
"Besithatha indawo yokubeka indawo kule minyaka mihlanu okanye mithandathu idlulileyo."
Ukusithwa kwelanga yinyanga ngokupheleleyo nge-11 kaJulayi 2010 kuya kushiya uninzi lwempuma yePolynesia - kuquka yonke i-Easter Island - kwi-umbra yenyanga, okanye ithunzi, imizuzu emine kunye nemizuzwana engama-45.
Oko kuphantse kube yimizuzu emibini mfutshane kunokusithwa kwelanga yinyanga kwangoLwesithathu, okuchaphazele ibhendi emxinwa enqumla phantse isiqingatha soMhlaba, ngokutsho kwe-US space agency NASA.
Kodwa ithemba lendalo emangalisayo eyenzeka kunyaka omnye kamva kwindawo yokomoya nekude njenge-Easter Island iye yathakazelisa ngokulinganayo izazinzulu zehlabathi kunye nabakhenkethi, abaye bakhubeka omnye komnye ukuze bagcine iibhedi eziyi-1,500 kuphela ezinikezelwayo iihotele ezimbalwa zesiqithi.
“Sele akunakwenzeka ukuba ufumane nantoni na ukubona ukusithwa kwelanga yinyanga,” utshilo uHector Garcia wearhente yokuhamba yaseGoChile. “Akusekho zihotele, akusekho ndawo yokuhlala, akusekho nto,” watsho, esongeza ukuba uninzi logcino lwenziwa kwangethuba “zizazinzulu ezivela kwihlabathi liphela.”
Amaxabiso, utshilo, anyuke kahlanu ukuya kwi-10 kwisiqithi sonke - kodwa loo nto ayikhange ibathintele abazinikeleyo.
“Sibhukelwe ngokupheleleyo kwezi nyanga zidlulileyo,” utshilo u-Maria Hortensia Jeria, ophethe ugcino-ndawo kwihotele ye-Explora Rapa Nui, apho amagumbi eendwendwe angama-30 aya kwiidola ezingama-3,040 lilinye ngephakheji yobusuku obune.
I-Easter Island—okanye iRapa Nui ngolwimi lwamandulo lwasePolynesia—itsala abakhenkethi abamalunga nama-50,000 XNUMX nyaka ngamnye, abathontelana ukuya kwindawo enentaba-mlilo ukuze banandiphe unxweme lwalo kunye “nemoai” yodumo, abantu abaninzi abami kufutshane nonxweme abacinga ngabemi bomthonyama besiqithi. abagcini babo.
Ikumgama weekhilomitha ezingama-3,500 (iikhilomitha ezingama-2,175) kwintshona yelizwe laseChile kunye neekhilomitha ezingama-4,050 (iikhilomitha ezingama-2,517) kumzantsi-mpuma weTahiti, iIsta Island inabemi abamalunga nama-4,000, uninzi lwabo ingamaRapa Nui.
Ukufika kwesi siqithi kwiintsuku ezingaphambi kokusithwa kwelanga yinyanga kunyaka ozayo akuyi kuba lula, njengoko ekuphela kwenqwelomoya eziya kwisikhululo seenqwelomoya saseMataveri zikwiLAN, inqwelomoya yaseChile enegunya lodwa endleleni.
Ngexesha eliphantsi, kwiinyanga zasebusika ezisemazantsi e-hemisphere, itikiti elisuka kwikomkhulu laseChile iSantiago ukuya kwiSiqithi se-Easter lixabisa malunga ne-360 yeedola, kodwa ixesha eliphakamileyo libona ixabiso eliphindwe kathathu ukuya ngaphezulu kwe-1,000 yeedola, abakhenkethi bathi.
Kwaye, njengeziqithi ezininzi zetropiki ezithembele kakhulu kukhenketho, amaxabiso aphezulu. Ngokomzekelo, inkonkxa yeCoca Cola isenokuxabisa iidola ezine, ngaphezu kwexabiso eliphindwe kane kunexabiso laseSantiago.
Ngoko ngoxa iinkwenkwezi zisenokulungelelana ukuze zibonelele ngemizuzu emine iindwendwe zase-Easter Island ngoJulayi ozayo, uninzi lwabemi besiqithi ngokwalo lufuna ukuxhamla koku kuthontelana.
"Abaninzi apha bacele imali-mboleko ukuze bakhe iihotele ezincinci okanye ii-bungalows, okanye bahlaziye amakhaya abo ukuze bafumane abakhenkethi," uMario Dinamarca, waseChile osele ehlala kwesi siqithi iminyaka engamashumi amabini, uxelele i-AFP.
Abemi besiqithi—abemi besiqithi esinesitampu seposi kwiPasifiki enkulu—abaqhelekanga ukuba bodwa, kodwa banethemba lokuba kangangemizuzu emine ngoJulayi ozayo, iIsta Island iya kuphila ngendlela abalichaza ngayo ikhaya labo ngolwimi lwaseRapa Nui: “ inkaba yehlabathi.”
