SANTIAGO, VALPARAÍSO AND EASTER ISLAND

• Upon your arrival, we will receive you at the airport and bring you safely and comfortably to your hotel.
• City tour: Visiting the main tourist attractions.
• Santiago is a mixture between the old and the modern, features that we invite you to know. Our tour through Santiago will show the immensity of the city, its varied geography and civility.
• We will guide you through the Main Square of Santiago, where the Cathedral, Main Post Office and City Hall are located. You will be told about the origins of our city.
• Next stop is the civic neighborhood and the surroundings of La Moneda Government Palace.
• After that we will be driven through some of the old neighborhoods of Santiago, such as República and Concha y Toro neighborhoods.
• Later we will visit the eastern part of the city and we will see the modern buildings and the changes that they have brought to the neighborhood.
• We finish our tour in a handicraft store, located in an exclusive neighborhood, where we’ll appreciate with a Pisco Sour, Lapizlázuli masterpieces, made with this stone that just exists in Chile and Afghanistan.
• Return to hotel and lodging.
• Enjoy your first night at your preferred hotel in Santiago.

• Breakfast buffet served in hotel restaurant.
• We will begin our tour from the hotel, in a 120-kilometre trip towards the Pacific Ocean.
• Our “Garden City”, Viña del Mar, will charm us with its architecture, its streets, palaces, and Quinta Vergara.
• We will have the possibility to know a Moai statue from Easter Island and a handcraft store of Lapizlasuli (Faba).
• Following we are going to visit the port city of Valparaiso dating back 1536. The city was declared World Heritage by Unesco, and it is currently the site of the legislative power of Chile. It is a magical place of unique and unforgettable landscapes with colourful neighbourhoods and picturesque funicular elevators. We visit Sotomayor Square and the port, where we can navigate through Valparaiso Bay.
• In the evening, we will return to Santiago.
• Overnight at your preferred hotel in Santiago.
• Breakfast included.

• Enjoy your free day
• Overnight at your preferred hotel in Santiago de Chile.
• Breakfast included.

• Arrival at the Easter Island Airport.
• Reception at the Airport with a flower necklace and transfer to your selected hotel.
• Breakfast at your hotel on Easter Island.
• We initiate the tour about 3:00 pm from Hanga Roa, visiting Ahu Vinapu, that it was used by the Islanders in the year 1.200 A.C. including three Ahus. The first one has 6 Moai statues demolished and painted in red. The second one has a supposedly female Moai which had two heads. Finally, the third Moai, the oldest one, features only removed stones.
• We will continue our way to the quarry of Puna Pau, an archaeological site in the eastern side of Hanga Roa. It is a small crater of red slag, from where the Pukao or hats of the Moai statues were obtained. Along with its old exit, there are some incomplete and abandoned Moai.
• We will head to Ahu Akivi, the first Ahu restored by the science in the island in the year 1960. The platform with seven Moais is characterised by being one of the few ones located in the centre of the island, with its statues facing the rising sun. According to the legend, these seven Moais would represent seven young explorers sent before Hotu Matua’a’s arrival to investigate the island.
• Our adventure leads us to the cavern of Te Pahu, a place used as housing and temporary refuge in war times.
• Then, we will return to Hanga Roa, total duration 3,5 hours.
• Overnight at your preferred hotel on Easter Island.
• Breakfast included.

• Departing from Hanga Roa’s town at about 9:30 am, we will go to the southeastern and northeastern coast of the Island visiting the Ahu Vaihu temple, which is located 10 km from Hanga Roa.
• It consists of a stone platform with eight Moai statues and eight pukao dispersed in the proximities.
• Then, we will go to Ahu Akahanga, so-called the “Platform of the king”. The legend tells that Hotu Matua’a’s tomb is near this place. There, we will find four platforms, twelve Moai statues, eight Pukao and towards the interior of this Ahu; it is possible to see the best-preserved village of the island.
• Later, we will go to Ahu Tongariki, with fifteen Moai being the largest Ahu of the island. After that, we will meet Ahu Te Pito Kura, which possesses the highest statue of the island raised in an Ahu, the Moai Paro (10 meters of height and 85 tons with a Pukao of 11,5 tons).
• Near this ceremonial temple is the large spherical stone that is identified as the Center of the World (Te Pito o Te Henua), as the legend tells, it was brought to the island by Hotu Matua’a in his craft.
• After that, we will arrive in Ahu Nau Nau, a temple of a complex construction due to its different levels where we will find five Moai statues with Pukao. There, we will see petroglyphs in the backs of the statues.
• We will continue our excursion to the Rano Raraku volcano and quarry, where there was carved most of the Moai of the island, using the volcanic rock of its hillsides. There is an estimated number of 400 Moai in several stages of carving.
• Finishing our adventure, we will go to the Anakena Beach. It is a beach of white sands chosen for the arrival of the Ariki Hotu Matua’a and his sister Avareipua. Anakena is the name of a small cave in an adjacent gully.
• Return to the town of Hanga Roa, total duration 8 hours.
• Overnight at your preferred hotel on Easter Island.
• Breakfast and lunch included.

• Breakfast in our hotel in Easter Island.
• We start our tour at 09:30 am from Hanga Roa heading to the Tahai archaeological complex. This ceremonial centre features three Ahus: Ahu Vai Uri with five Moai statues, Ahu Tahai with one Moai statue and Ahu Le to Riko with one Moai statue.
• From this site, we will be able to appreciate inspiring landscapes.
• After that, we will visit the Ana Kai Tangata natural cave where it is possible to admire some rupestrian art representing birds such as the manutara, and where it is possible to watch waves breaking upon the cliff.
• We will continue our tour by visiting the Rano Kau volcano where we will be able to see the largest crater on the Island and one of the largest sweet water reservation in the area.
• Finally, we will visit the Orongo Ceremonial Village, old and magnificent ceremonial city located on the western side of the Rano Kau volcano. It features 53 elliptical houses made of sandstone and a small square window looking to the sea.
• At this place, the most important ceremony of the second period of Easter Island was carried out: The election of the Tangata Manu (Bird-Man). This service stopped being performed 150 years ago, due to the arrival of the first Christian missioners.
• Approximately at 01:00 pm, we will return to the village.
• Overnight at your preferred hotel on Easter Island.
• Breakfast included.

• Breakfast at the hotel on Easter Island.
At the scheduled time, transfer to the airport and typical farewell.
• Reception in the Santiago airport and transfer to your hotel.
• Overnight at your preferred hotel in Santiago.
• Breakfast included.

• After a restful night’s sleep and a delicious breakfast, it´s time to say Good-Bye, and we bring you back to the airport, to take your flight home.
• We are very proud to welcome you again in the future and to show you other marvellous and fantastic parts of the world.
• Breakfast included.