DAYS FOUR TO SIX: EASTER ISLAND, CHILE

The flight from Lima to easter Island, one of the world’s most remote civilisations, is five hours and 20 minutes.

If you were going on a commercial airline you would need 13 hours to fly via Santiago de Chile. But there’s no time to lose on arrival as you are only here for two nights, staying at the hangaroa eco Village and Spa, designed in homage to Orongo, a ceremonial Rapa Nui National Park site.

Rooms are made from cypress logs, clay and volcanic rock. Get up close and personal with the extraordinary Moai statues carved between the 12th to 17th centuries (left), with heads weighing up to 82 tons. You’ll be given a miniature statue as your ‘pillow present’.