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Abercrombie & Kent crafts Wild Horse Nine journey to Easter Island

The luxury travel curator partners with Searchlight Pictures to create an exclusive itinerary that moves beyond the film's cinematic frame into the lived history and ancient culture of Chile and Rapa Nui.

By Harvey HiraSaturday, 7th of November 20262 min read
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Abercrombie & Kent has created an exclusive itinerary inspired by the Searchlight Pictures film Wild Horse Nine, designed for those drawn to the mythology and landscape that shaped the story. The journey moves beyond cinematic geography into the texture of place, history and the voices of those who lived through it.

Volcanic landscape of Rano Raraku on Easter Island with moai statues scattered across green slopes beneath steep rocky cliffs under clear blue sky, wild horses grazing in the foreground

The expedition begins in Santiago, where the journey turns inward to the nation’s complicated past. Over dinner with a local resident, guests encounter first hand accounts of Chile’s 1973 coup and its reverberations through decades of national life. This is not tourism as spectacle but as understanding, a deliberate slowing to absorb context alongside story.

Interior scene from Wild Horse Nine showing two men in conversation, one in a dark jacket with patterned shirt seated across from another man, with a colonial building facade visible through the window behind them and flowers on the table

From there, the path leads to Easter Island and the volcanic quarry of Rano Raraku, where the monumental moai still stand in their enigmatic arrangement across green slopes. The moai emerge from the earth as they have for centuries, their creation and purpose intertwined with the spiritual and social order of the Rapa Nui people. At Anakena Beach, ancient rituals performed by local guides offer something closer to lived inheritance than interpretation; this is culture moving in real time rather than preserved behind glass.

Film poster for Wild Horse Nine showing the title in bold orange lettering with 'The Scene vs. The Location' beneath, framed against a grassy hillside with moai statues and figures in casual clothing standing in conversation

The itinerary weaves these moments together not as a collection of sights but as a coherent meditation on how landscape, politics and ritual shape what we understand as home. Abercrombie & Kent has positioned this journey as cinema made tangible, film given depth and breath through the conversations, the soil underfoot and the stories that only emerge when one stays long enough to listen.

Film poster for Wild Horse Nine showing the title in bold orange lettering with 'The Scene vs. The Location' beneath, framed against a grassy hillside with moai statues and figures in casual clothing standing in conversation
Film poster for Wild Horse Nine showing the title in bold orange lettering with 'The Scene vs. The Location' beneath, framed against a grassy hillside with moai statues and figures in casual clothing standing in conversation
Film poster for Wild Horse Nine showing the title in bold orange lettering with 'The Scene vs. The Location' beneath, framed against a grassy hillside with moai statues and figures in casual clothing standing in conversation

Imagery courtesy of Abercrombie & Kent (@abercrombiekent).

Volcanic landscape of Rano Raraku on Easter Island with moai statues scattered across green slopes beneath steep rocky cliffs under clear blue sky, wild horses grazing in the foreground
Interior scene from Wild Horse Nine showing two men in conversation, one in a dark jacket with patterned shirt seated across from another man, with a colonial building facade visible through the window behind them and flowers on the table
Film poster for Wild Horse Nine showing the title in bold orange lettering with 'The Scene vs. The Location' beneath, framed against a grassy hillside with moai statues and figures in casual clothing standing in conversation
Film poster for Wild Horse Nine showing the title in bold orange lettering with 'The Scene vs. The Location' beneath, framed against a grassy hillside with moai statues and figures in casual clothing standing in conversation
Film poster for Wild Horse Nine showing the title in bold orange lettering with 'The Scene vs. The Location' beneath, framed against a grassy hillside with moai statues and figures in casual clothing standing in conversation
Film poster for Wild Horse Nine showing the title in bold orange lettering with 'The Scene vs. The Location' beneath, framed against a grassy hillside with moai statues and figures in casual clothing standing in conversation

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