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Easter Island / Rapa Nui / Isla De Pascua Tour

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Channel: travelshorts · 2014 · Travel & Events

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A tour around Easter Island / Rapa Nui / Isla De Pascua.

The first thing I do today is head over to the museum; it is a short drive out of town and contains artefacts from the islands past including the only Moai eye discovered. All the exhibits are in Spanish but they give you an English guide book as you enter and then you just use the description in the book with the corresponding number.

I drive out of town towards Rano Kau crater, I take some more pictures and video there before heading up to Orongo, where the Birdman Cult was centred. 

In Hanga Roa I went for lunch at Hakahonu, the same place I went for diner two nights ago, I had a fruti de mare salad that had a mix of prawns, calamari, scallops and local fish, it tasted great.

I then went exploring the North road as the rain had eased off a little, the first place I came to was Ahu Hanga Kio’e. There was a single Moai there as well as two Ahu’s, it is believed that these were the last built on the island, in the mid 17th century.

Then I carried on driving for a while down some sketchy dirt tracks until I came to Ana Kakenga otherwise known as the cave of two windows. The cave is a lave tube of around 50 metres long.  To enter the cave you need to squeeze through a rather narrow opening into the pitch darkness, it is quite tight for a while before it opens up, luckily I was prepared and had a torch, but it was so narrow I needed to take the pack off my back. The cave divides into two with two openings that overlook the ocean, which is where the cave gets its name from. I stay here for a while before moving on along the road.

Next I came across Ana Te Pora, another cave system and this one was huge inside with a big roomy arch, it was used as both a shelter and ceremonial place in ancient times. When I was exploring the outside of the cave system looking for more holes in the ground it began to rain heavily again so I went back to the car to take shelter.

I drove over to Ahu Tepeuto see if it would stop and it did for about two minutes so I drove on.

Then I arrived at Ana Te Pahu, the banana cave, but as I had been here previously and when I walked down to it was greeted by a man urinating directly towards me (not a pretty sight) I decided to keep going.

It was getting late now and I had to return the rental car so I went back to Hanga Roa. After a bit of a rest at the hotel I went into town for something to eat. 

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