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Easter Island - Hanga Roa
Reception at Mataveri airport and transfer to the hotel. Easter Island is the most remote insular territory in the continent. It is located at 3,700 km from Chile and 4,050 km from Tahiti. In the coastal strip of land are most of the Ahus (stone statue). Outlined by stones, cliffs and unprotected bays this island is formed by three white coral sand islands. |
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Easter Island - Vaihu, Akahanga and Rano Raraku - Anakena Beach
Breakfast at the hotel. We will visit Vaihu, Akahanga and Rano Raraku, a volcano found in the northeast of Hanga Roa, one of the most important archeological places of Easter Island, where there is an empty quarry where moai carving used to be done.
We will visit Ahu Tongariki and Te Pito Kura, two archeological monuments; heki'I is the biggest one, and Te Pito Kura (the center of the universe) has a perfect rounded stone and is the largest moai carried and placed on an ahu (stone platform) of the island. We will see Ahu Nau Nau and then have lunch in Anakena Beach known for its warm and transparent waters and coral sands.
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Orongo (Cultural Center of the Birdman) - Ana Kai Tangata
Breakfast at the hotel. We will go to the antique ceremonial center of Orongo, where the most important ceremony of the second period of the island is held. It is located near the crater of Rano Kau volcano. Orongo has 53 restored houses built of flagstones; and nowadays, they are used by the representatives of tribes during the ceremonies related to the birdman competence.
We will visit Vinapu, an archeological place formed by two Ahus (ceremonial platforms with moais) in ruins, as the moais forming this platform are fallen and one of them is almost buried. We will go to Ana Kai Tangata, located in the cliffs to the south of Hanga Roa in Mataveri, an amazing cavern with seabird paintings on roof tiles.
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Isla de Pascua
Breakfast at the hotel. Free Day. |
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Ahu Akiki
Breakfast at the hotel. We will visit the archeological center of the Roihi sector: Ahu Akivi (7 moais). It was the first group of moais restored in the sixties. They are the statues of the first seven explorers sent by its King Hotu Matua from Hiva with the aim of exploring the unknown land.
Then we will go towards Ana Te Pahu Caves (great lava tubes produced by volcanic activity), used as a tribal shelter during ancestral times; and we will also visit the Puna Pau quarry, east of Hanga Roa, in a small red crater which provided Pukaos (topknots) for crowning the moais.
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Isla de Pascua
Breakfast at the hotel. Transfer to Mataveri Airport. |