Visitng the Volcano site named Oronjo

The breakfast at our boutique hotel here on Easter Island is served very meticulously. The butter is in the from of a Moai. The rolls are served warm in the cloth bag. We can order freshly made eggs served to our request. 

We had the morning free to walk around the town and then had a nice lunch right on the seaside.

Our lunch spot. 

 

 

 

 

The letter NJ is combined in the Rapa Nui language and has a guttural sound.

The inhabitants lived in these stone houses. At one time there was a competition for one member of a tribe to swim the an island a mile off shore to get an egg of a tern and bring it back unbroken. The winner was entitled to take food as needed from other inhabitants. This is all oral history. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Near to this site was the location of a volcanic crater. The crate is more than a mile across. When it erupted it blew out the side toward the ocean. The estimate is that it erupted 180 thousand years ago.

 

It was a spectacular site. There nice breeze so it was quite pleasant to walk and see the views. 

 

 

 

Our final stop was at a site called Vinapu  were the construction of the blocks suggested some Inca influence because the cuts were to precise and angular. The Moai there were all toppled but there were some parts like heads lying on the ground. 

This is a head of a Moai that is now embedded in the ground.

These are toppled Moai 

These are the blocks that are more like Inca construction that Rapa Nui.