Te Ara O'Te Varua in Easter Island

Code: KAV005
  • Start: Easter Island Airport
  • Departure: Daily
Description

The Te Ara O'Te Varúa program will allow you to discover the ancestral energy of the Easter Island through excursions to the most sacred places in Rapa Nui and several activities which will connect you to thousand-year knowledgement. 



Price includes
Transfer in/out
4 nights of accommodation in Vaihú Lodge
Yoga sessions, massages and treatments mentioned in the itinerary
Meals mentioned
Private excursions to sacred places
Price does not include
Air tickets
Personal expenses
Easter Island National Park entrance fee
Tips
Transfers or additional excursions not mentioned
Itinerary

Day 01: Mataveri Airport – Easter Island – Tahai
Reception at the Mataveri Airport with flower necklace and transfer to the Lodge located in the area of Vaihú.
Making of the Umu Tahu, sacred ceremony of blessing which consists of preparing food underground, in order to invoke the spirits in order to thank and ask the protection of the ancestors. This “curanto” includes white chicken, sweet potato and others local root vegetables shared with the visitors in order to wish a good omen during its activities and experiences in Rapa Nui.
Private lunch in the lodge. 
Making of a Rapa Nui ritual which consists of an ancestral performance with 3 native dancers plus 1 percussionist with body painting (takona) and ancestral dress, who will perform ancient dances and songs (riu, ute)
At 06:30 pm we will carry out a visit to the Tahai area, most important and closer ceremonial center, which consists of 3 funerary platforms, where rests the Nga’ara king (last Rapa Nui king of having a Moai). In this place, we will wait the sunset to thank the first day in Rapa Nui.
Return to  Lodge.
Hawaiian massage session Lomi Lomi with spiritual guide in a holistic center of Lodge which consists in helping restoring the energetic circulation, improving the physical, mind and spiritual state of the person. This massage Lomi Lomi is a deep, fluent and rhythmical massage originally transmitted from the Hawaiian families, as the most part of the Polynesia. 

Day 02: Easter Island - Ahu Tongariki – Akahanga – Rano Raraku – Te Pito Kura – Anakena
At 06:30 am, at down, we will depart heading to Ahu Tongariki, the largest platform of the Polynesia consisting of 15 Moai. This ahu with an astronomic orientation mark the sunrise. Here we will carry out a meditation session in front of the ancestors to receive spiritual energy, called by the Mana native people.
At 09:00 we will return to the Lodge for breakfast. At 09:30 departure to a private full day excursion to the sacred places.  We will start our visit in the Akahanga village, continuing with Rano Raraku stone quarry where Moai Statues were carved, and the magnetic stone of Te Pito Kura and the kings’ bay called Hanga Rau, mostly known as Anakena. Private lunch in the area for barbecue. Return to the Lodge.

Day 03: Easter Island – Ahu Akivi – Puna Pau
At 09:00 breakfast at the lodge. At 09:30 we will have a Yoga session in the holistic center of the Lodge, which consists in getting a perfection state integrating the soul with the received energies of the ancestors, thus seeking the development of the spiritual conscience.
Lunch on behalf of the passenger. At 03:00 pm, departure for a half day private excursion. We will start with a tour to the sacred place of Ahu Akivi, restored platform with astronomic orientation marking the spring equinox aligned with the Pleiades or Matariki during the second week of September. These Moai represent also the 7 explorers who colonized Rapa Nui. After that, we will continue the tour to the quarry of red scoria called Puna Pau, where the Rapa Nui ancestors carved the pukaos or hats of the Moai. Return to the lodge.
Dinner on behalf of the passenger. 

Day 04: Easter Island - Vinapu – Rano Kau
Breakfast at the lodge.
Hawaiian massage session Lomi Lomi with spiritual guide in a holistic center of Vaihu Lodge which consists in helping restoring the energetic circulation, improving the physical, mind and spiritual state of the person. This massage Lomi Lomi is a deep, fluent and rhythmical massage originally transmitted from the Hawaiian families, as the most part of the Polynesia. 
Lunch on behalf the passenger. At 03:00 pm start the half day excursion to the sacred place of Vinapú, area known due to its resemblance to the Inca remains of Sacsayhuman, Peru, underlining the connection of the people of the Americas. There are also 3 platforms which reflect of a war time in the Island and the only female Moai of 2 heads.
After that, we will start the ascent of the Rano Kau volcano featuring an imposing 1-an-a-half-kilometer crater where flourishes vegetation and there is a great lagoon covered by totora. It is known also as “The Great Manavai (power of the water) of Rapa Nui”. Its micro-climate and geographic formation turn this into one of the most inspiring scenes of the Island. We will finish the tour heading south visiting the ceremonial village of Orongo, place where the most important ritual of the third and last age of the Island before the evangelization. This ritual consisted of determining who was vested as the new Tangata Manu (Bird-Man) with a priestly power given by the Make Make spirit. 
Return to the lodge, dinner on behalf the passenger.

Day 05: Easter Island – Mataveri Airport
Breakfast in Vaihú Lodge. Transfer to the Airport with ancestral farewell with Pipi collars (shells)

Accommodations

Important note: In the event that one of the hotels does not have availability, it will be exchanged for a hotel with similar characteristics.

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