Easter Island in 4 days

Fifteen moai on a platform almost 100 metres long, backs to the ocean; the tallest tops 8 metres, and one keeps its topknot.

The crater where nearly every moai was carved; around 400 remain on its slopes, including a 21-metre giant never freed from the rock.

The island's one real white coral-sand beach, with Ahu Nau Nau's seven moai kept well preserved by the sand that buried them for centuries.

Seven moai standing inland, 2 km from the coast, unusual in facing out to sea and aligned with the sunset at the equinox.

The small red-scoria crater where every pukao, the cylinders set on some moai heads, was cut; around twenty lie abandoned, some over 2 metres across.

Three seafront platforms ten minutes' walk from Hanga Roa, including Ko Te Riku, the only moai with restored coral and obsidian eyes.

A crater 1.6 km across holding a reed-covered lake, its southern rim broken open to the ocean, seen from a viewpoint on the edge.

Fifty-three stone houses on the rim of Rano Kau, centre of the birdman cult, whose contestants swam to Motu Nui for the first tern egg.