Te Pito Kura is the location of Paro, at 9.8 metres the tallest moai ever erected on a platform and now lying face down where it has been since at least the 19th century. The figure is broken at the neck and its great cylindrical pukao sits a few metres away. Next to the fallen statue is a smooth round basalt boulder said to have been brought from Polynesia by Hotu Matu'a — the so-called "Navel of the World," which locals demonstrate by pressing a compass to it and watching the needle spin.
Papa Vaka, a few minutes back along the coast road, is a flat lava outcrop covered in petroglyphs of canoes, fishhooks, octopuses, and a 12-metre carving of a long boat. Boardwalks let you walk over the surface without damaging it. Both sites are quiet and worth the stop on the way between Anakena and Tongariki.