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6 Days Easter Island Tour Package

Duration: 6 Days / 5 Nights
Priced From: $2,130 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: 3 star 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 your family-style hotel (or up-graded hotel depending on your selected option), where you will stay for the next five nights. Welcome cocktail to meet your guides and discuss the itinerary and some other aspects about the trip.

Day 2. Early in the morning you start your tour throughout the island that during 6 days will lead you over hundreds of years of history. Your first sight today is the volcanic crater of Rano Raraku. This might be 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. We pass Ahu Akahanga where we find four similar statues until we finally reach Vaihu.

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). Later you drive to Tahai and the cave of the Petroglyphs.

Day 4. You begin your tour driving along the coast road to the largest Moai ever transported. It is named Ahu Te Pito Te Kura (navel of light) and boasts at some 9.8 m/ 32 ft. in length.

Next you reach Ovahe beach, a small bay nestled beneath a cliff of volcanic rock with pure and golden sands and magnificent clear water, a true South Pacific paradise. Spend some time there swimming and relaxing. Later you visit Anakena beach, the legendary landing place of Hota Matua, the founder of the island.

Day 5. This day you start with the ceremonial center of Ahu Akivi where you find seven standing Moais that represent the sons of a Maori sorcerer sent to search for Rapa Nui, the home for King Hotu Matua.

We continue to Puna Pau, a former Moai factory where Moais were once built and then transported to the platforms. All around the place you can explore attractive volcanic caves. The most impressive are the cave of the two windows and the cave of the banana

Day 6. Free morning to relax. Later take the flight back to Santiago.

• All transportation throughout the island
• 5 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)

• 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

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