INCLUDES

NOT INCLUDED

• Transfers airport / accommodation / airport • Accommodation • Transfers to all visits included in the program • Academic program • Program materials • UAI Certificates • Visits to NGOs • Entrances to archaeological sites • Guided tours • Welcome breakfast • Traditional farewell dinner • Academic Director 24/7

• Flight tickets • Meals (except for a welcome

breakfast and a farewell dinner) • Health insurance

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Students will uncover  the secret history of the island's environmental and cultural transformation through the centuries, analyzing how globalization has set new challenges for the preservation of rapa nui language and traditions.

Students will take on a leadership position by helping with sustainable environmental projects around the island, this program will have an on-site approach with practical goals set for each day.

Students will immerse in the local tradition, music, and folk stories of the Rapa Nui community to reach an in depth knowledge and experience the island from the perspective of locals.

Students will explore and discover archeological sites guided by experts who will unveil the mysteries behind the achievements of the rapa nui civilization.

More informationlanguagelab@uai.cl

Cost?Contact your IIRR

Coordinator

When?Spring 2019

Where?In Easter Island, Chile

“It’s in the strength of our roots that we must invest.”

HEU RAPU HAOA

I N T E R N AT I O N A L P R O G R A M

RAPA NUI: HERITAGE & INNOVATION IN EASTER ISLAND

C H I L E - S P R I N G 2 0 1 9

DAY 1 DAY 2 DAY 3 DAY 4 DAY 5 DAY 6 DAY 7

Welcome breakfast

Participation in community

outreach activity in coastal clean-

up during the morning

Introduction to the island’s

history

Lecture: Language and

identity of Rapa Nui

Visit to Anakena beach

Lecture & Workshop: Rapa Nui traditional

music

Program closure

Free morning and lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch

Free afternoon

Lunch Certificate ceremony

Introduction to sustainable

and innovative projects in Rapa Nui

Visit to ecological NGO

Visit to archaeological

sites (Orongo, a ceremonial

village; Rano Raraku, the

quarry of the moai, and Ahu

Tongariki, with its 15 moai looking

to the island)

Trekking (Terevaka volcano and cave circuit)

Visit to NGO Toki

Traditional farewell lunchKari Kari:

traditional dance performance

Visit to museum Padre Englert

Visit to the craft market

*The program is subject to modifications according to the needs of the group or reasons of force majeure.

DID YOU KNOW THAT…?

๏ Today, Rapa Nui receives tons of garbage from the continent, which is carried by the currents to its shores?

๏Rapa Nui is the only place in Chile that has a garbage management plan?

๏Rapa Nui’s honey is the only one in the world free of any pathogen?

๏ The last version of the Tapati Cultural Festival was carried out in a sustainable way?

๏ In Rapa Nui, sea water is desalinated with solar energy?