Easter Island, Part 4 - TONGARIKI

Arfur and Shelly Visit an island that they have been wanting to see for many years. An island shrouded in mystery. An island where great heads and bodies carved in volcanic rock stand guard along the coast. Easter Island - home of the Moai.

We walk around the base of the 15 Moai at Tongariki relatively quickly, as the island tour groups start to arrive after we parked up (added to the cruise ship passengers that might soon turn up!). The wind was again, quite strong and unfortunately, the sound has drowned out half the commantary....not a bad thing, some might say :)

Still at least it was warm.......

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Arfur
• Shelly
• Easter
• Island
• Moai
• Rapa
• Nui
• Isla
• de
• Pascua
• Chile
• Tongariki
• Top
• Knot
• Cruise
• Ship
• 15

[petroglyphsinthesky]

i think they are looking at the mountain. many petroglyphs i have studied show dear and dogs looking at the hot spot for ufos. do you see all the cracks down the side ?? the myth here in phx az is that spirits aka ufos live in the cracks of rocks. for i have filmed many ufos coming and going from within the mountains cracks in phx. grate post thank you :) i love this island :)

[arfur100]

No problem! Not sure what was going on there - even the experts seem to be making 'best guesses'. UFO's - why not? :)

[davelevin777]

I find your accent funny, ya enlish lad. Like it, "myte" (mate)...

There must have been a "bloody storm" coming, did you escape that? Strong winds can be heard...

Tongariki is beautiful, but so far far away from Hanga Roa... how to get there?

[arfur100]

I haven't got an accent! :)

Yep - we got caught in a terrific storm - the water was coming down in buckets!!! Very refreshing though......

We rented a small jeep-type thing from a local hire company (50 bucks a day) and drove there. Didn't take much more than an hour of sedate driving. Any longer than an hour and we'd have driven off the cliff on the other side of the island......

[futachee]

great place ..i wanna see this but i don't have enough money..i'm from romania very far

[wormsoup]

oh, ok. thanks.

[arfur100]

No - we rentel a little chalet on this guys land (I think his name was 'Pantu'). There are othjer tourist areas to stay in, but we wanted something a little more personal - out of the way. :)

[wormsoup]

ok. thanks. one more question, in part #1 where ya say thats ya's place as your backing down the drive-way, thats was not really ya's place ?

[arfur100]

Yep - we were just touring the island - no home. :)

[wormsoup]

so you was just visiting Easter Isaland? I thought ya had a home there?