Hanga Roa Guest Houses - Reviews and Rates

Easter Island: strange statues, wierd cults. Watch this space....

Paaseiland Op 4 maart was het dan eindelijk zover, ons lang verwachte vertrek naar het Paaseiland, oftewel naar Rapa Nui! ´Sochtends vroeg met de taxi vanuit ons hotel vertrokken naar de luchthaven van Santiago. We vlogen met LAN, en moesten echt wennen aan die krappe stoeltjes in vergelijking met de luxe busritstoelen die we nu gewend zijn. Wel...

I was met at the Mataveri airport by Lucia Riroroko and taken back to her B&B which has 4 rooms, adequate but not luxurious. Everyone that I meet on the island is friendly and having hired a car I see everything that is to be seen. The best time is spent at the quarry close to Rano Raraku volcano where all the Moai were carved from the rock. Man...

Easter Island is only 64 square miles, and is miles from everywhere. We landed on this tiny spot in the Pacific Ocean, 2,500 miles from Santiago in the late evening. We were met by Josie & Alex-our guides who both have personal connections to the island-who greeted us with pink leis and Pisco Sours. We are here on a National Geographic extension...

This is truly the middle of nowhere - a windswept island thousands of miles away from anywhere else. It is officially the most remote place in the world (as in furthest away from continental landmass). It's called Rapa Nui - for it is a Polynesian island. It's called Ile De Pascua - for it is a Chilean territory. It's called Easter Island - for ...

March 5th to 10th 2008 - Easter Islands/Isla De Pascua/Rapa Nui - Take your pick The big day finally arrived and after 6 months in South America I think we were both ready to get on the plane although we still had one last stop off on the beautiful Easter Islands. Remarkably it was a 5 hour plane ride to get there in which we indulged in some ni...

Amazing!!! the Rapa Nui people are freandly and cool, i realy loved the island and the Moais are incredible. Food is great if you like seafood, i had tuna ceviche every single day and even tried the Pisco sour (Grape wine a la margarita). I think my first tatto will include a Moai. Saludos desde Isla de Pascua.

The weather forecast was correct and the second full day I had on the island was very sunny. After breakfast and a stop at an internet cafe (expensive), Christina and I went on the hunt for a hire car. This isn't difficult to do as every man and his dog (of which there are plenty on the island) is quite happy to rent you a car for a few hours or...

With the anticipation of seeing "the statues that walked" that I had learnt about so long ago in school, I called that one last tour operator to see if we could do the full day tour of Easter Island today ... waking up early paid off, and the chilean anthropologist, Estaban, agreed to take me and Himari on a private tour, costing us no more than...

I left Rio at 7pm and got to Santiago at about midnight but all the information desk and hotel reps had left so I save some money and ended up sleeping on a bench for a few hours until I checked in for the connecting flight to Easter Island at 8am. Easter Island is almost 4,000k's from the Chilean coast so it was a long flight but the plane was ...