The tapati rapa nui festival, which literally means rapa nui week, is the most important cultural festival in easter island, and it is celebrated every. The method produces exotic flavors you wont find anywhere else. If you want to visit easter island who better to contact than the rapa nui travel team. Be part of this 4 or 5day travel easter island tour and get to know the islands history and legends, always accompanied by astonishing landscapes and scenic views of the island. Florence, the capital of tuscany is home to some of the worlds most recognizable renaissance art and architecture.
Mataveri airport is the main entry point for the more than 100,000 tourists who travel to easter island each year to admire its archaeological sites and other attractions the rapa nui aiport is considered the most remote airport in the world, since the closest airport to easter island is mangareva in the gambier islands french polynesia, which is located 2603 kilometers although it has no. Spanish is the most widely spoken language on easter island and the primary language of education and administration. Easter island or rather rapa nui as the islanders themselves tend to call it, is home to some of the strangest and most remarkable monuments to be found anywhere in the world. It describes the process by which the rapa nui traditionally cooked food in small ovens dug into the ground. How to visit easter island without breaking the bank ultimate 2020.
As a familyowned and operated restaurant, we provide the most authentic chilean cuisine in chicago. Was it perhaps the privilege of the winning tribe every year to carve their own emblem on the rocks, and did they employ their very best craftsmen to do the carving. Noone should go to easter island without first acquiring this book. Unless youve spent hours researching, exploring easter island on your own can be tricky. Restaurant is good, expanded menu would make it better. An island paradise becomes a scarred paradise lost in the spectacular south seas adventure rapa nui, coproduced by kevin costner.
Travel guide resource for your visit to easter island. Book your tickets online for rapa nui national park, easter island. Long ago, the people of rapa nui grew only bananas, sweet potatoes, yams, sugarcane, taro, and tapioca. Explora rapa nui offers over 20 complimentary excursion options around easter island including unexplored trails through natural wonders, visits to archaeological sites and snorkeling in the pacific. Leave planning transport and activities to a guide with a combo package that features two fullday excursions that, between them, reveal the best of the historic outpost. After dinner, enjoy a polynesian folkloric show featuring chants, dances, and music that reveals historical legends associated with the rapa nui people. Rapa nui is a minority language, as most rapa nui people speak spanish as their first language. Rapa nui is one of the most isolated island communities in the world.
A tiny speck of an island in the vast pacific, rapa nui is the worlds most remote inhabited island you can go more than 1900km in any direction without seeing another soul. Rock art the birdman village was a highly sacred place, and many of the rocks at the end of the peninsula were carved with very elaborate carving. At rapanui restaurant formerly latin sandwich cafe we are proud to serve parilladas grilled meats served on a tabletop grill, the finest fresh baked empanadas, seafood and salmon dishes, sandwiches and other delectable chilean dishes. Explore easter island rapa nui holidays and discover the best time and places to visit. Our agency was founded in 1995 and for all these years we are working to realize the travel plans and requirements of our clients coming from all over the world, usa, europa, asia, latin america. The tapati rapa nui festival, which literally means rapa nui week, is the most important cultural festival in easter island, and it is celebrated every year during the first two weeks of february. Nowadays, most agree that the rapa nui arrived in the 8th century as descendants from the polynesian people on the other side of the pacific ocean. Few areas in the world possess a more mystical pull than this tiny speck of land, one of the most isolated places on earth. Rapa nui national park easter island 2020 what to know. Things to do at easter island easter island travel your. Welcome to kava kava tours private tours at easter islandrapa. Reward yourself with your dream trip to italy, where you will join chef rodrigo at one of our luxury villas.
Guests at rapa nui can try out regional cuisine at the hotel. This tour with easter island travel was everything that i had hoped for and gave me a very personal and concise introduction to the island, its. Resort explora rapa nui all inclusive, hanga roa, chile. Rapa nui resort salina island aeolian islands official. We invite you to discover the ancient mysteries of easter island with us. If you wish to observe the tapati festivities, it is best to plan and book as much as a year in advance to avoid disappointment. Easter island, also known as rapa nui, is an unesco world heritage site, known for its hundreds of gigantic moai statues scattered all over the island. Its not just a guide book, it also gives all the background, the gossip if you like, about the. Couples in particular like the location they rated it 10 for a twoperson trip. Having wanted to visit rapa nui for ages, the opportunity arose and i booked this two day tour to get the most out of my visit. The hot chocolate in the cafe is quite nice and the staff are lovely and attentive. Nov 18, 2015 rapa nui is served daily by flights from santiago, chile however flights during tapati are sold out months in advance and accommodations are scarce during this time. Explora rapa nui this luxury property is built with local volcanic stone and imported wood, and curves along a hillside overlooking the islands south coast in an emulation of the ceremonial.
The island is technically speaking, a single massive volcano rising over 10,000 feet from the pacific ocean. We also try to make your whole visit on the island comfortable and can accommodate your entire stay. We are a small family owned business that loves to provide our customers with a great tour experience while visiting rapa nui. Without a doubt the best mexican restaurant in the lakeville, apple valley, rosemount. It is believed that rapa nui is currently undergoing a shift toward more spanish sentence structure. Find the best things to do at easter island in the list below. Its hard to feel connected to chile, over 3700km to the east, let alone the wider world. Easter island travel hanga roa all you need to know. Easter island offers a wide array of activities when you have some spare time.
Rapa nui national park easter island 2020 all you need to. Gently settled on a pebbly beach facing directly the islands of panarea and stromboli, the rapa nui resort is a dream came true years ago, thanks to the initiative of domenico giuffre, architect and entrepreneur. Score a book s total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book. Information about attractions of easter island chile and its surroundings like tahai, tongariki, rano kau volcano, easter island national park, anakena beach, rano raraku volcano. Rapa nui chocolates, buenos aires colegiales restaurant. It may not provide such extensive details as hotel or restaurant prices and locations that you might to expect to find in a travel guide, but easter island isnt the type. Resort explora rapa nui all inclusive, hanga roa, chile booking. Rapa nui travel your travel expert on easter island. Thats how my guide, beno atan, described our trek as we carefully picked our way through a vast stretch of basketballsize lava rocks on the. About us if you are planning to visit easter island there is no one who could better organize your vacation than the german conny martin and her rapa nui husband papiano tepano, owners of the travel agency rapa nui travel ltda.
German, english, spanish or french, and your private vehicle only at your. See great photos, full ratings, facilities, expert advice and book the best hotel deals. Today, tourism and government jobs bring in the money to support rapa nui s economy. Activities of green island tours easter island rapa nui. This tour to easter island known as rapa nui by its native people will show you the most meaningful spots of the island. Catch up with the latest trailers in under 60 seconds, including irresistible, spenser confidential, horse girl, the lovebirds, and vivarium. In this way kava kava tours has an available booking option that allows you to book your tours at todays prices and travel within a period of 2 years.
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We are rapa nui german owners with offices on easter island. Check any national, local, and health advisories for this destination before you book. Rapanui restaurant, chilean cuisine in chicago welcome to. It is in the southern hemisphere at 27 9 s latitude, 109 26 w longitude. Find out everything you need to know about travel and tourism for your easter island vacation here. Love between the representatives of two warring tribes changes the balance of power on the whole remote island. Welcome to green island tours easter island rapa nui. Experience rapa nui hanga roa 2020 all you need to know. Lying isolated in the east pacific, in an extreme windward position, rapa nui is the easternmost polynesian island. Rapa nui resort salina one of the finest location in the aeolian islands. The island, isla da pascua province, chile is situated in the pacific ocean over 3,700 kilometers west from mainland south america. Easter island is most famous for its nearly 1,000 extant monumental statues, called moai, created by the early rapa nui people.