Puakatiki

Exploration Path

We head to Ahu Mahatua in the Poike peninsula. We follow a trail along a cliff, going by Parehe and Tea-Tea Hills. We continue up to the summit of Puakatiki Hill, which offers a panoramic view of Rapa Nui’s isolated position. We descend following a steep path up to Tongariki, the Ahu of the 15 moai.

The Poike zone, named after the oldest volcano on the island, offers some of its most unusual sceneries, with harsh conditions evidencing how the Rapa Nui is eroded by sea and water, one of the its people’s most pressing ecological predicaments.