Rapa Nui
(Easter Island)  Adventures -
May, 2000 and November, 2004
(this same page of pictures can be accessed from both the May 2000 and November 2004 travel journals)

Pictures of Orongo
and Rano Kau

Rano Kau crater

Petroglyphs at the ceremonial center of Orongo

The author on an outcropping above the crater

 

Some of the tiny dwellings.  They are about 5 feet tall,
and you have to wriggle through a tiny hole to get in.

Three tiny islets 1000 feet below Orongo.
The largest is Motu Nui, and it is where the birdmen hopefuls had
to swim to retreive a tern egg.  It is two miles out to sea.

At the very end of Orongo, you run out of flat land,
and must either turn around, jump into the sea,
or try to navigate down to the crater lake!

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