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HORSEBACK RIDE EASTER ISLAND 6 DAY TOUR

1. – ITINERARY

B = Breakfast BL= Box Lunch L = Lunch D = Dinner

DAY 1: SANTIAGO – EASTER ISLAND

Reception at Mataveri airport, where you are greeted by our local guides. 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). Welcome cocktail to meet your guides and discuss the itinerary and some other aspects about the trip.

DAY 2: HANGA ROA – RANO KAU – ORONGO - VINAPU - VAIHU
(4 hrs riding)

Early in the morning start the horse riding throughout the island that during 6 days will lead you over hundreds of years of history.
Ride to 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 three tiny and craggy islands Nui, Motu and Kao-Kao where the bizarre "bird man" ritual took place. Here we also find the ruin 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 where we find Ahu Tahira Ahu, one of the first Ahus constructed. 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)
Camping near Vaihu.
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DAY 3: VAIHU – AKAHANGA – TONKARIKI – RANO RARAKU
(4 hrs riding)

Horseback to Aka Anga, settlement of the last clan, the clan of the Miru, direct descendants of king Hotu Matua, the legend says that the head of the king is buried there. Visit the houseboats where they used to live, some remains of their houses and nearby caves. Then continue southwards to visit Ahu Tongariki, recently restored after a tidal wave washed the statues dozens of meters away from their original setting in 1960.
Optional trekking to 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.
In Rano Raraku we set up camp.
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DAY 4: RANO RARAKU – POIKE – BAHIA DE PEROUSSE – TE PITO KURA – OVAHE - ANAKENA
(5 hrs riding)

We start riding towards Poike Peninsula where once a mystical war took place among the so called "long-Ears", who carved the Moai, and the newcomers known as “Short Ears", who were kept in an inferior class and helped in manual labor. Although there are many contradictory versions of the legend it is said that the Short Ears rebelled and slaughtered all the Long Ears. We follow the coast road along the Bahía de la Perousse onwards to the east of the island where we find the largest Moai ever transported. It is named Ahu Te Pito Te Kura (navel of light) and boasts of 9.8 m/ 32 ft in length. Ahu means sacred place and describes the rectangular stone platform on which the Moai statues were erected. Continue heading to the north to 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 reach Anakena beach, the legendary landing place of Hota Matua, the founder of the island. Overnight in camping.
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DAY 5: ANAKENA – HANGA O’TEO – OMIHI – TEREVAKE – AHU AKIVI – TAHAI – HANGA ROA
(4 hrs riding)

After breakfast star riding to Hanga O’Teo, a beautiful beach with an incredible sight to Maunga Tereva. We pass to the Omohi Geoglyphs and Terevake, the highest point on the island. Terevake lies 500 meters above sea level and it is the youngest of all the volcanoes on the island, dated at 240,000 years old, compare to the volcano Rano Kau, near Orongo, which is about one million years old.
Continue to the ceremonial center of Ahu Akivi where you find seven standing Moais that represents the sons of a Maori sorcerer sent to search for Rapa Nui, the home for King Hotu Matua. After lunch, ride back to Hanga Roa.
Overnight in hotel of your choice.
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DAY 6: EASTER ISLAND - SANTIAGO
Free morning to relax. Later transfer to the airport to take the flight back to Santiago.
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Free morning to relax. Later transfer to the airport to take the flight back to Santiago. / B /

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2. – INTRODUCTION
Easter Island is the most isolated place in the entire planet, at a distance of 3.000 km from the nearest populated point. The inhabitants carved 100 ton basalt statues (called Moai) from a quarry in the side of a volcano. The statues were then transported many kilometers to the coast and erected on giant stone altars. How and why the inhabitants of the island achieved this may always remains a mystery.

Easter Island, located in exotic Polynesia offers the enchantment of warm beaches and agreeable climate, transparent seas and remarkable volcanic geology.

3. - PROGRAM INCLUDES
•   Meals mentioned on itinerary
•   Hotels and site camps mentioned on the itinerary
•   Horses and equipment
•   Tents

4. – NOT INCLUDED
•   International and local flights
•   Insurance
•   Tips

Ecotours - CHILE
Ecotourism Tour Operator.
Hernando de Aguirre 128 OF 904, Providencia, Santiago,
Phone (56 - 2) 8236219
Phone (56 - 9) 84590631
E - mail: info@ecotours.cl

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