{"id":638,"date":"2015-04-29T19:29:02","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T18:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/?p=638"},"modified":"2015-05-13T03:59:37","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T02:59:37","slug":"2015-04-11-rano-kau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/?p=638","title":{"rendered":"2015-04-11: Rano Kau"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another day on the island, another day in paradise. I hiked up to Rano Kau, a volcano on the southern side of the runway. When I arrived at the crater rim,\u00a0 I was stunned by the vegetation that flourishes\u00a0 down in the crater. The wall of the crater protects the inside from strong winds and creates a micro climate allowing the vegetation to grow.<\/p>\n

I then headed down to Orongo, a ceremonial village. From the 18th century, Orongo was used as the centre of the bird man cult: Annually, each chief of a clan would appoint up to 2 hopu (men of lesser status) who would\u00a0 then\u00a0 swim over to Motu Nui, an island off the coast of Easter Island, and wait for the return of the terns. The task was then to collect the first egg lain by a tern, and return it safely to the chief who was waiting in one of the stone huts of the ceremonial village. He would then be announced tangata-mangu, and went into seclusion in a special ceremonial house for a year. As\u00a0 tangata-mangu, he was considered sacred for the next 5 months, and would be entitled to food gifts and other tributes. The race was very dangerous, and many hopus died in the process (falling of the cliffs, eaten by sharks, drowning, etc.). It cult stopped in the 1860’s,\u00a0 when it was suppressed by Christian missionaries.<\/p>\n

In the hotel, I had made the acquaintance of some sailors. Their boat had some problems with the electrical system. Being an electrical engineer by education, I offered my help, and went out to the boat in the afternoon to take a close look at the electric\u00a0 system. In the evening, we had dinner in a restaurant near the shore.<\/p>\n

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\"Rano<\/a>
Rano Kau<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Cave\"<\/a>
Cave long the hike up to Rano Kau<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Vegetation<\/a>
Vegetation inside the Crater of Ranu Kau<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"The<\/a>
The Crater’s Floor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Rano<\/a>
Rano Kau: Orongo Cermonial Village<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Islands:<\/a>
Islands: Motu Nui (in the back), Motu Iti (in the front)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"The<\/a>
The Cucao<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Jorge,<\/a>
Jorge, Monica, Francisco, Rafael, Pauline, Joaquin and his wife Maria, I believe, and myself<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Hike<\/a>
Hike to Ranu Kau<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another day on the island, another day in paradise. I hiked up to Rano Kau, a volcano on the southern side of the runway. When I arrived at the crater rim,\u00a0 I was stunned by the vegetation that flourishes\u00a0 down in the crater. The wall of the crater protects the inside from strong winds and … Continue reading 2015-04-11: Rano Kau<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":976,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions\/976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloetzner.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}