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Ahu Tongariki
1,997 reviews
#1 of 25 Sights & Landmarks in Easter Island
"Standing 15 strong, this awesome monument symbolizes the Rapa Nui heritage and emphasizes the incredible efforts it took to erect these massive statues.""here you can see up to 15 MOAI .. 15!!! the lineup shows differences between each moai and the background is simple amazing, Poike volcano on the left and on the right the ocean !"
Rano Raraku
2,071 reviews
#2 of 25 Sights & Landmarks in Easter Island
"Lush green hills dotted with Moai, the magnificent stone mountain in the background, as well as incredible views of the coast from the site make this a sensory overload.""Rano Raraku is a volcanic crater formed of volcanic ash and is located on the slopes of Terevaka, which is the largest, tallest and youngest of three main extinct volcanoes."
Orongo
1,459 reviews
#3 of 25 Sights & Landmarks in Easter Island
"lovely place to visit, great history of the birdman but was blown away with the beauty of the wetland (the sunken volcano) with the backdrop into the pacific.""An ancient stone village and ceremonial centre for the ‘birdman’ competition, where a race was conducted annually to scale up and down the shear cliff face, swim to the nearby island and return with a birds egg in..."
Ahu Tahai
837 reviews
#4 of 25 Sights & Landmarks in Easter Island
"Also a nice time to visit is the sunset although there is another and likely the most spectacular moai sunset is Ahu Akivi, but still a great time after a tiring day to see the sun sets is a remarkable reward befo...""It's a short walk toward the northwestern part of Hanga Roa to the site, nestled north of the cemetery and south of the museum."
Ahu Nau Nau
259 reviews
#5 of 25 Sights & Landmarks in Easter Island
"The others are well-preserved, four of them even wear their red pukaos (a hat/hair made of red stone from Puna Pau quarry), which is quite rare (only two more statues with pukaos on the island).""The setting is different from other sites in that there is a beautiful beach with white sand and palm trees."
Ahu Akivi
549 reviews
#6 of 25 Sights & Landmarks in Easter Island
"It is a particularly sacred place which has seven moais, all of more or less equal shapes and sizes, and is also known as a celestial observatory that was set up around the 16th century.""A particular feature of the site, is that the statues exactly face the sunset during the Spring Equinox and their backs face the sunrise during the autumn Equinox; how impressive is that?"
Ahu Akahanga
551 reviews
#8 of 25 Sights & Landmarks in Easter Island
"At the entrance to this site one will see some well-preserved ruins of an ancient village with a number of earth ovens (umu pae), the boat-houses (hare vaka) as well as some paved areas which will show you a littl...""You can rent a car and see the island on your own, but having a guide gives you so much more information and sights you might otherwise miss."
Ahu Vaihu
187 reviews
#9 of 25 Sights & Landmarks in Easter Island
"This site is unique in that it has really good examples of the 'greenhouses' that the early cultures built (and some of the modern citizens still do) and how they used similar understanding to the Incas in their c...""We went with Papa Nui Travel and their amazing guide was full of information and anecdotes - such a surprise - those chickens!"
Cementerio de Isla de Pascua
390 reviews
#12 of 25 Sights & Landmarks in Easter Island
"This cemetery has a great position above the sea but the best thing is the unusual range of graves, including wood carvings of sea life, dramatic crosses, dolls, a lot of white stones and markings.""Several times I thought I would slip and fall down the side of the volcano and die, and I actually thought the island cemetery is so beautiful, it would be my perfect final resting place."
Ahu Te Pito Kura
372 reviews
#14 of 25 Sights & Landmarks in Easter Island
"See the largest mo’ai statue transported from the Rano Raraku volcano quarry and erected successfully on an ahu with is voluminous headdresses carved and transferred from the quarry of Puna Pau from the opposite e...""Its dimensions are spectacular: it’s ears measure 2 meters, its height reaches 10 meters and it is estimated that it’s weight must have exceeded 80 tons."
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