Santiago & Easter Island

Being picked up after breakfast for day one of a tour round the island to see the moai, can't wait, even though I've only had a couple of hours sleep this is it 😎

Well quite surprised really, we only went to the local sites today, and tomorrow is the far side of the island, started off by visiting ahu vinapu
Ahu a kivi, which was a really calming site with seven moai facing out to the sea, which are the only ones on the island that do that.
Ana te pahu is a cave, and if I'd have known what it was I probably wouldn't have gone, it's a large set of caves formed by molten magma that ran to the sea, and where it is said some rapa nui people lived. Little did I expect to be given a caving helmet let alone go in to the system, after all there's a difference between looking and doing, but hey I enjoyed it 😊
Capped today off with a trip to the Orongo ceremonial village and rano raku crater. The village was used for the birdman ceremony and has about 50 shelters the contestants used, there are petroglyphs carved in the rock of some of the winners. You can see the island of Moto nui where the birdman contestants raced to, from the top of the crater it's deceptive because it's about a mile out to sea!
The view down into the rano raku is stunning and again from the top of the crater it's hard to believe how far down it is.
Then, back to hotel, a little sleep and into the town to see what's on at the festival site, or just see the dogs 😊Les mer