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Info Even in the 21st century, there are many unsolved mysteries. You're going to find out about some of the most unusual below.
Easter Island

Couples can get married anywhere in Hong Kong now. Few people have been to the remotest island in the world to get wed. Kevin and Charina Jones live on Hong Kong Island. They got married below the statues of Easter Island.

People landed on Easter Island about 1,200 years ago. It is approximately 1,000km from South America. For some unexplained reason, the people started making statues of people's heads all over the island. The statues are, on average, about 4m tall and weight 14,225kg. They were built from volcanic rock on the island. It must have taken months to make each one. Archeologists have found nearly 900 statues.

Kevin and Charina took two days to get there. They flew to New Zealand, Cook Islands, Tahiti and then the Easter Islands. Kevin's parents travelled for the wedding. Some tourists and locals joined the party too.

"We love travelling to unusual places and didn't want a big Hong Kong banquet. Going to Easter

Island was like having the wedding and honeymoon at the same time. Charina and I were dressed up for our wedding ceremony. Some tourists thought it was a fashion show!" said Kevin. "My wife and I ate lobster and drank champagne that evening, watching the sun set on these strange but beautiful statues. What could be more romantic than that!"

 

 

 

 

 

You can find out more about Easter Island here or here.

Hanging Coffins

Keen Hong Kong traveller, Hermia Ng, recently visited Wuyi Mountain in China, where she saw the hanging coffins.

"Wuyi Mountain is located in Fujian province and is famous for its winding river valleys and dome-shaped cliffs. As I was sailing along the Nine-bend River on a bamboo raft, the local tour guide urged us to look up. There, I saw the mysterious hanging coffins in some caves and cracks by the dangerous cliff-sides. No one knows for sure why coffins were put there. Some people suggested that the people in that era believed it could help the deceased rise to heaven easily. It is estimated that the coffins were at least 3,000 years old. However, it is still a mystery today

how people could put coffins on the cliff-sides such a long time ago as the coffins are dangerously located."

Find out more here here.
Stonehenge

The UK is full of standing stones. Stonehenge is the most famous. These stones were initially erected more than 5,000 years ago. Experts guess that they were constructed to worship the sun but how could people have put these heavy stones on top of each other. The stones weighed up to 4 tonnes and were at least 10m tall, 2m wide and 1m thick. Even today, this would be a difficult task.

Former St Catharine's School for Girls student, Grace Poon, took this great photo.
You can find out more here or check out the amazing photos here.
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Ivan Mackerle

There are many films about adventurers but few people really give up everything to explore the world. Ivan Mackerle, from the Czech Republic, is one such person. He has spent all his money trying to solve mysteries around the world, including looking for Count Dracula's castle, the Loch Ness Monster, blood-sucking killer worms in the Gobi Desert and exploring the Valley of Death in Siberia.

Something terrible happened in the Valley of Death about 800 years. All the trees were knocked over and stones were scattered hundreds of kilometers away. Some people think that aliens were responsible.

Mackerle has never proved anything but he keeps on searching. As he says, "Most people, when they're adults, they marry and their lives begin. They have children and make money, they have their careers. But I wanted to stay in my dreams, with these adventures."

Read an interview with him here.