Kon Tiki Mantua Model: wooden assembly kit art 703 Kon Tiki Mantua Model: wooden assembly kit art 703 Kon Tiki Mantua Model: mounting kit in wood art 703 model kit to build. Faithful reproduction of the Kon-tiki raft built as a copy of a prehistoric South American boat. Made with 9 balsa logs from Ecuador and built with wooden parts all linked together. A crew of six men who left Callao in Peru on April 28, 1947, reached the island of Raroia in Polynesia. after 101 days of navigation, after a journey of approximately 4300 miles. Thus the possibility for the ancients to reach Polynesia was demonstrated. There mounting box contains all the laser-cut wooden parts, accessories and small parts of excellent quality while I construction plans I'm detailed in multilingual with several illus.