Thor Heyerdahl

by BDK

The Kon Tiki Museum.

They have his original raft that was used in the 1947 adventure and the 1979 raft from that adventure.

The 47 raft was made from 9 very large balsa wood trees lashed together. A 5,000 mile trip.

The 79 raft was made from reeds.

The big guy himself and a bunch of ancient stone carvings he liberated from Easter Island:

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