Ahu Akahanga
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deborahk3
Maidstone, UK1,804 contributions
Jun 2019
At Ahu Akahanga lay the remains of a small village near the south coast of the Island. At the entrance to the site, there are the stone foundations of a number of houses where it is thought the old inhabitants lived. Close to the houses there are several stone ovens. Close by and facing the sea, is a small cave, thought to provide shelter to the fishermen from the elements.
The Ahu Akahanga stands on the left in front of the sea and this large platform has not been restored. The statues lie both face down and face up allowing you to better see the features. According to Island tradition, the first king of the island is buried close by, however, excavations carried out in recent times have not uncovered any remains of the king. Interesting and significant site on the Island.
The Ahu Akahanga stands on the left in front of the sea and this large platform has not been restored. The statues lie both face down and face up allowing you to better see the features. According to Island tradition, the first king of the island is buried close by, however, excavations carried out in recent times have not uncovered any remains of the king. Interesting and significant site on the Island.
Written May 22, 2020
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Are G
The Villages, FL25 contributions
Jan 2020
This entire island owes its present day existence to three people: Edmundo Edwards, Claudio Cristina, and Patricia Vargas. Without them, these magnificent statues would just be rock piles and there would then be zero tourism. It was simply magnificent being guided by them.
Written January 13, 2020
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Sachin K
New York City, NY5,851 contributions
Dec 2019 • Family
This attraction is an interesting one and different from other attractions. One can see an ahu(platform) in ruins with all of its moai fallen face down or on their backs, most likely toppled after the clan wars.
At the entrance to this site one will see some well-preserved ruins of an ancient village with a number of earth ovens (umu pae), the boat-houses (hare vaka) as well as some paved areas which will show you a little of how the people of Rapa Nui used to live. Very close to here you will also find a small cave that was used as shelter for those who did not have a boat house.
Behind the main ahu, one will find another moai that has been toppled as well as an unusually small moais that would have been one of the first ones to be built. Certainly would very highly recommend visiting this attraction to any traveler and especially those who are eager to have an off beat experience on Easter Island.
At the entrance to this site one will see some well-preserved ruins of an ancient village with a number of earth ovens (umu pae), the boat-houses (hare vaka) as well as some paved areas which will show you a little of how the people of Rapa Nui used to live. Very close to here you will also find a small cave that was used as shelter for those who did not have a boat house.
Behind the main ahu, one will find another moai that has been toppled as well as an unusually small moais that would have been one of the first ones to be built. Certainly would very highly recommend visiting this attraction to any traveler and especially those who are eager to have an off beat experience on Easter Island.
Written November 22, 2020
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Katrien S
Ghent, Belgium1,982 contributions
Jan 2020
This is one of the sites that has not yet been reconstructed to an often unknown original state Most of the statues were toppled as the European started to arrive, probably in a civil war between the tribes on the island. Here you see the site how the original population left it. The moai thus still lie face down, with the red headdress stones lying a bit further. These were thus all rather late moai. However, on the site also lie several smaller and older moai open to be seen (in most sites they are still covered by ahu).
Written February 24, 2020
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Bill M
Springfield, MO308 contributions
Jan 2020
The ancient tribal site of Ahu Akahanga on the south coast of the island has a restored ancestral village on its west end closest to town. There are stone foundations of several hare paenga or boat-houses, so called because of their elliptical shape reminiscent of a ship, where the old inhabitants lived. Our tour guides took us early so we could see the chickens emerge from their stone coop which was cute.
The eastern side is where the Ahu Akahanga stands in front of the sea. This large 60 foot platform has not been restored, illustrating how the ahu were first discovered.
In most destroyed platforms, the statues lie face down. However, in Ahu Akahanga, the 13 mo’ai, (between 16 and 23 feet in size) were knocked down both face-up and face-down making their features and carving more visible as you can get right up to them.
The eastern side is where the Ahu Akahanga stands in front of the sea. This large 60 foot platform has not been restored, illustrating how the ahu were first discovered.
In most destroyed platforms, the statues lie face down. However, in Ahu Akahanga, the 13 mo’ai, (between 16 and 23 feet in size) were knocked down both face-up and face-down making their features and carving more visible as you can get right up to them.
Written February 2, 2020
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bukagirl
New Jersey3,796 contributions
Jan 2020 • Solo
Ancient ruins and houses, you can visualize how the Rapa Nui lived.
See the tumbled Moai, best to see with a guide to explain the history.
See the tumbled Moai, best to see with a guide to explain the history.
Written January 1, 2020
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Hong Kong, China4,244 contributions
Aug 2019 • Family
We came here right after we watched sunrise.. Seashore is truly stunning, the surrounding is surrealistically beautiful.
I had no interested to those broken moai but please come here to see the beauty of the sea either before or after sunrise. You will be amazed!
If you have a tourist guide, please ask him to call bring you here early in the morning and let you release a house of chicken from the Inka chicken house. You will like it. Only the earliest bird get the worm as there are only very few chicken
houses. Once the chicken is released, you can only see empty chicken house.
I had no interested to those broken moai but please come here to see the beauty of the sea either before or after sunrise. You will be amazed!
If you have a tourist guide, please ask him to call bring you here early in the morning and let you release a house of chicken from the Inka chicken house. You will like it. Only the earliest bird get the worm as there are only very few chicken
houses. Once the chicken is released, you can only see empty chicken house.
Written August 23, 2019
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EdoSal
Santiago, Chile239 contributions
Sep 2019
There are a lot of traces of the Rapanui civilization here, so you would need to have a good guide to understand better what you are looking at. Quite interesting, it is fascinating to understand a little bit more about this mysterious civilization. Don't miss it!!
Written September 15, 2019
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SharksSupporter1
Ballito, South Africa560 contributions
Nov 2017 • Friends
It was raining heavily during our visit and we were a bit rushed but the statues are awesome and well worth visiting
Written December 12, 2017
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Travelin_Salsa
Toronto, Canada20 contributions
Aug 2016 • Solo
Amazing to see the scale of this and get a sense of how hard it was to put all of this together, considering the tools available and the distances to cross.
Written September 7, 2016
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