Today was a very early start as I was getting picked up by my new French friends at 5:55am so we could head out to a famous point with 15 Moai to see the sunrise. After doing my exercises, eating my breakfast and packing my lunch I started walking towards town, I was only 5 minutes down the road when my ride came and it was off we went. The first stop was Ahu Tongariki for sunrise, it was about a 30 minute drive and on the other side of the island. On the way we were treated to the beautiful night sky and as we arrived the sky changed to a dark purple as the sun creeped towards the horizon. We had picked a perfect day for it with nearlly no wind (strange on this side of the island) and only a few clouds in the sky. The site had 15 Moai of different statures and designed lined up facing the quarry to where they were constructed; as the sun crept over the horizon the silhouettes of the Moai was beyond words. There were maybe 20 other people there viewing the spectacle and all as gob-smacked as we were- we took photos, walked around and enjoyed the beauty of such an event. Behind us was Rano Raraku the quarry/volcano where the Moai were constructed and it presented huge cliffs that shadowed over all the surroundings. We were the last people to leave and decided to sit and have a picnic breakfast - my French friends had brought everything imaginable from granola to fruits, cheeses, hams, honey and pasta salad. We then jumped in the car and headed for Poike a famous headland at the far end of the island that is now closed off to cars. Poike involved a 11km hike around the coast; so we packed some water and snacks and took off. It was still freezing cold for me so I was rugged up head to toe, the first stop we came to was these huge cliffs with the Virginia caves - unfortunately we had no idea how to get down the cliff face safely to enter the caves, so we simply enjoyed the view from afar. We continued out to the headland and was able to find 3 small Moai that were laying face down - hidden in the grass; the really cool thing was we could touch and get as close as we liked to these Moai. The highest point of Poike was the head of the volcano and that was our next stop - I steamed up the hill leaving the others to dordle slowly up - the thing was my body; specially my legs were aching so I had to get the climb done as quick as possible. The view from the top was spectacular with a 360 panorama of the east side of the island and the huge quarry where all the Moai were built. Climbing down took just over an hour and by this time we were all starving hungry so we headed to Anakena - the only white sand and swimmable beach on the island. We sat for another picnic under the coconut trees and enjoyed the white sandy beach and contrasting blue sky. We dropped the girls off on the highway and they hitchhiked back to town whilst Surilame and I headed to Rano Raraku to view the crater and quarry. The quarry was like a viewable history lesson with literally 100s of Moai laying scattered on the craters edge and towards the top of the quarry in the cliff faces were half built and chiseled out Moai. I have never seen anything quite like what I saw at Rano Raraku - these huge upto 15m and 100 ton giant statues - chiseld out in the actual cliffs of the volcanos crater. There were so many different types of Moai - ones with, legs, ears and different features and they have all been layed in a scattered fashion to portray an eary Moai graveyard. On the inside of the crater was a beautiful blue lake with a bunch of wild horses grazing on its edges, along with more Moai scattered randomly. By this time it was late so Surilame dropped me off at the bungalows. Tiare: Peters wife had saved some of todays lunch for me which was a delicious chicken and stirfy salad - she is an incredible cook and I must of already put on a few kgs from her cooking. I tried to get to bed earlier tonight but unfortunately I got talking so that didn't happen. The sun doesn't go down here until after 9pm so going to bed before midnight is quite difficult.