EASTER ISLAND, part 1 – Ahu Tangariki, scratchpad from the trip to Ester Island.

SLAWEK, PhotoGallery:
The second moai from the right has a pukao on its head. AHU TONGARIKI is the largest ahu on Easter Island. Its moai were toppled during the island’s civil wars and in the twentieth century the ahu was swept inland by a tsunami. It has since been restored and has fifteen moai including an 86 tonne moai that was the heaviest ever erected on the island. Ahu Tongariki is one kilometer from Rano Raraku and Poike in the Hotu-iti area of Rapa Nui National Park. All the moai here face sunset during Summer Solstice.
Ahu Tongariki was the main centre and capital of the Hotu Iti, the eastern confederation of the Rapanui.[1]

Its moai were toppled during the island’s civil wars. In 1960, a tsunami caused by an earthquake off the coast of Chile swept the Ahu Tongariki inland.

Ahu Tongariki was substantially restored in the 1990s by a multidisciplinary team headed by archaeologists Claudio Cristino (Director) and Patricia Vargas (Co-director executive team), in a five year project carried out under an official agreement of the Chilean Government with Tadano Limited and the University of Chile.
This trip was organized by CLASSIC TRAVEL: US 1-800 774 6996 EU 004822 389 5374

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