The best of Easter Island - Express 4 days / 3 nights

We will pick you up at your accommodation at 9.00 am to take the route that will take us to know several moais and the famous Anakena beach.

We will start visiting the ahu Vaihu, located in the bay of Hanga Te'e, and then go through the ahu Akahanga, a place full of demolished moai. Later we will continue in the Tongariki ahu, one of the most important, because it will be our first approach with the mais erected standing in front of the Pacific Ocean; finally we will visit the ahu Nau Nau, located in Anakena beach, where we will have time to enjoy the sea.

In addition, we will take advantage of the day to know the Rano Raraku quarry, where the moais were formerly sculpted. As it is said on the island, in that area there are 400 moai among those found on the slopes of the quarry and buried underground.

At the end of the tour we will return to your hotel.

• Physical
  Medium
• Cultural
  Very high
• Nature
  Very high

At 9.00AM we will pass through you to your hotel to head towards the Ahu Vinapu sector. In him we will know the three ceremonial centers that at the moment count on demolished moai during the wars that occurred between the clans of the island between the XVIII and XIX centuries.

We will then continue towards the Rano Kau volcano, with the immense lagoon that keeps its crater, from where you will have spectacular landscapes to enjoy and photograph. Then you will pass through the southwestern part of the volcano, where the ceremonial village of Orongo is located, famous for being the scene of important ancestral celebrations, whose history you can hear during the tour.

At the end of the tour we will return to your hotel.

• Physical
  Very low
• Cultural
  Very high
• Nature
  Very high

We'll pick you up at your hotel at 15:00pm to head to the famous Akivi ahu, the most important ceremonial center on the island also known as a celestial observatory. Composed of seven moais, it is one of the few ceremonial centers that are located in the interior of the island and not on the coast. Of homogeneous design, the seven statues measure 4 meters high and have a particularity that can only be seen in this place on the island: they face exactly the sunset during the spring equinox and turn their backs at dawn during the autumn equinox. It is a place of enormous cultural interest and definitely a must of the island.

Then we will continue our journey towards Uri to Urenga, the four-handed moai restored by William Mulloy in 1976. Located on a platform 13 meters long by four meters wide, the moai looks towards where the sun rises during the winter solstice (June 21) and its platform is aligned with two neighboring hills, Maunga Mataengo and Maunga Traina, plus two smaller nearby ahu. For this reason, it is believed that it was an important solar observatory in the Rapa Nui calendar.

Our last destination will be the quarry of Puna Pau, an important source of red volcanic rock that was used to sculpt the headdresses of the moai. It is deduced that this material was used because it was easy to carve and because of its distinctive reddish color. 

Finally we will climb to the top of the quarry, from where we will see the small crater of Puna Pau and the splendid views of Hanga Roa and the west coast of the island.

After four hours of travel, we will drop you off at your hotel.

• Physical
  Very low
• Cultural
  Very high
• Nature
  Very high