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4 Days Budget Easter Island Tour Package

Duration: 4 Days / 3 Nights
Priced From: $912 pp dbl. occ.
Departures: Daily

 



Easter Island is the most isolated place in all the planet, at a distance of 3.000 km from the nearest populated point and one of the most fascinating archaeological riddles of all time.

Its inhabitants, whose origin is still an enigma, developed the only script known to people of America and Polynesia at that time, carved enormous 100 tons basalt statues (called Moai) from a quarry in the side of a volcano, transported them many kilometers to the coast and erected them on giant stone altars. Easter Island, located in the exotic Polynesia, conserves the enchantment of warm beaches, agreeable climate, transparent oceans and remarkable volcanic remains.

Accommodations: Hotel

Day 1. Reception at Mataveri airport, where you are greeted by your local guide. Transfer to Hanga Roa, a small township where Easter Island's 2.500 people all live. Here you find Hotel O’Tai (D)

Day 2. Early in the morning you start your full day tour throughout the island taking you through hundreds of years of history. Your first sight today is the volcanic crater of Rano Raraku possibly the most impressive site on the Island. 70 standing sentinels, embedded up to their shoulders in grass on the south slope of the volcanic crater Rano Raraku, leading the way to the quarry or "nursery" inside of the impressive crater rim.

Here the Moai (enormous, 100 tons basalt statues) were cut from volcanic tuff, and some 150 figures, still left there, in all stages of completion, are mute witnesses of the mystery that suddenly stopped all work. You continue your tour and visit Ahu Tongariki recently restored after a tidal wave washed the statues dozens of meters away from their original setting in 1960. (B, L, D))

Day 3. Today your first stop is Rano Kau volcano, the biggest on the island, whose enormous crater is now a fresh water lake with floating green fields of totora reeds. This site offers an exceptional view of the three tiny and craggy islands Nui, Motu and Kao-Kao where the bizarre "bird man" ritual took place.

Here you also find the ruined village of Orongo, perched in this sublime location, which shows 48 oval buildings built out of overlapping stone slabs. Over the cliffs you see an amazing string of "bird man" petroglyphs. The tour continues to Vinapu, passing through Vai A Tare.

At Vinapu we find Ahu Tahira (Ahu = sacred place. This word describes the rectangular stone platform on which the Moai statues were erected). Ahu Tahira is a key element in Thor Heyerdahl's theory that the islanders came sailing from South America since it contains a wall of perfectly carved and fitted stone blocks that is strikingly similar to the work of the Tihuanaco culture (Bolivia) and the Inca walls in Cuzco (Peru). (B, L, D)

Day 4. Free morning to relax. Later take the flight back to Santiago. (B).

• All transportation throughout the island
• 3 nights accommodation in the selected hotel
• Meals as mentioned in the itinerary: B = breakfast L = lunch L- = Box Lunch D = dinner
• English speaking guide
• Orongo entrance fee (currently there are no other entrance fees to be paid on this trip, but this is subject to change)
• Full day excursion
• Half day excursion

• Flights to / from Easter Island
• Passport & Visa Costs
• Vaccination Costs
• Personal Spending Money
• Meals where not listed
• Drinks
• International Flights
• Travel Insurance
• Airport departure taxes (domestic & International)

• Santiago White Water Rafting
• Santiago Wine Tour
• Santiago Horse Riding

Lan Chile flies to Easter Island, with flights operating between Santiago, Chile and Papeete, Tahiti. Airfare from Santiago, Chile to Easter Island and back.

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