Posted by Jeff on Nov 9, 2016 @ 11:29 am in Hiking News | 0 comments | Last modified: November 9, 2016
“It’s like time travel, how the island looked decades ago before the restorations began.” That’s how the guide, Beno Atan, described this trek through a vast stretch of basketball-size lava rocks on the isolated north coast of Rapa Nui, or Easter Island as it was named by a Dutch navigator who sailed there on Easter Sunday 1722.
Just a few minutes into an eight-and-a-half-mile hike that takes you along a primordially rugged coastline, there already is a sense of deep isolation and separateness from the rest of the island.
You’re trekking under the shadow of the island’s highest peak, Maunga Terevaka, a 1,600-foot extinct volcano in a section of Rapa Nui National Park, a collection of protected areas that together make up a Unesco World Heritage site.
It’s an uninhabited, roadless and raw landscape that, Beno said, is essentially an open-air museum, filled with ancient structures and relics dating to the arrival of the first Polynesian navigators 1,700 years ago.
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