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Edit ThisRano Kao (Orongo) Crater
Mike Tossy
For a breathtaking view over the rim of a volcano who falls down directly to the sea, you should go to Orongo, an old cultural site. There is a road leading you up to the top. When you are there, you'll get the feeling of beeing alone on a planet, rough but warm wind in the hair, silence, silence and silence again. A stunning view over the crater and over the sea, always in mind, that if you are looking south, there is no land until antarctica in 10'000 km...Really beautiful, touching and worth the long trip.
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Rano Raraku
Edit ThisRanu Raraku is the quary where the Moai bodies were carved. Take the trail up the side of the volcano and on to the inside. You'll see Moai in many stages of carving. Some just started and some almost done. Here also you are allowed to stand close to the Moai and can get a true sense of their scale. If you are driving yourself try to come when the mini-buses are not here. You'll enjoy the experience more without the people.
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Tongariki
Edit ThisTongariki is so well placed with dramatic cliffs in the background and the statues are so huge and austere that the feeling of some extraterrestrial involvement relentlessly creeps in. Only the top sections of the statues (a hairdo or a hat is up to your imagination) are two meters high. The complex contains fifteen pieces – a record on the island. The story goes (or at least on version of the many story metamorphosis) that the locals fell into despair and initiated a civil war. As a result they started toppling the statues being representatives of the ancestors of the more..
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