The explora Rapa Nui on Easter Island, had scored a perfect 100 in the Travel + Leisure US 2012 World’s Best Service Awards, one of the world's most influential travel publication – sharing the overall hotel, resort and lodge top spot and ranking first in the Central and South America category. The annual survey collates reader votes in a variety of categories such as location, staff-to-guest ratio, activities, employees and special requests.
explora Rapa Nui was recognised for its ability to handle extreme requests – organising a helicopter transfer from a yacht onto the island’s mountainous terrain – which is all in a day’s work for the lodge staff. One reader highlighted the "excellent custom hiking adventures led by in-the-know locals" and head guide, Joanna Faulkner, was singled out for planning unique experiences such as a private picnic in a volcanic cave within earshot of the ocean. The comments epitomise explora’s core philosophy of offering journeys – unforgettable, authentic and sustainable expeditions into the landscapes, flora, fauna and culture of some of the world’s most beautiful environments, all whilst based at incredible landmark hotels.
Enigmatic and relatively unexplored, Easter Island (Rapa Nui to locals) is the world’s most remote inhabited island, located 2,237 miles from the American continent. explora’s cliff-top Posada de Mike Rapu lodge is the base from which travellers are able to delve into the geography and culture of this island, with its ancestral, megalithic constructions and inhabitants who have kept their language, music and traditions alive.
explora founded in 1989, it is an enterprise whose principal aim is to encourage a new attitude towards travel for those who have a passion for discovering new places and new people, in remote and relatively unexplored regions of the southern tip of South America. For fifteen years, explora has enhanced the travel experience within South America; firstly, at explora Patagonia in the Torres del Paine National Park, then at explora Atacama in an oasis in the heart of the Atacama desert and most recently at explora Rapa Nui on Easter Island. Travesias explora inspired by the ancient ideal of the "journey" and the freedom of discovery it affords, offers more awe-inspiring expeditions that are an indispensable complement to a journey to South America. Details visit : www.explora.com
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