About 2,000 miles off the coast of South America sits the Chile-governed Easter Island ... to transport statues to every part of the island," Van Tilburg says. Explore great travel deals A ...

Researching which moai statues to visit on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in Chile can be overwhelming. I speak from experience, having spent many hours planning to make the most of a week on this ...

At 2,500 miles off the coast of Chile, the island is one of the world's most remote places inhabited by people. Up to 1,000 years ago, the islanders started putting giant red hats on the statues.

It takes six hours to get to this remote destination that has almost no phone service, rolling green hills and volcanoes.

Marc Shields hails from West Auckland but is a long-term resident of Rapa Nui - he tells Paddy what life is like on the ...

In a remote patch of the Pacific Ocean lies Rapa Nui, otherwise known as Easter ... the island has been the subject of intrigue. Who built the Moai? How did they move such huge statues without ...

There is a Rapa-nui wedding ceremony, complete with loincloth, awaiting you on Chile’s Easter ... Moai statues and archaeological sites. Tourism, the main industry on the island, is also a ...

However, standing face to face with the moai statues is an indescribable experience. Easter ... coast of Chile and over 4,000 kilometres from Tahiti. Its nearest neighbour, Pitcairn Island ...

In Santiago, ambitious Leftist Lautaro Ojeda, editor of the small bi-weekly Economista, noisily called attention to Easter Island, Chile’s Polynesian possession. This year, when the Angamos made ...

Chile officials say fire damaged some of Easter Island’s iconic moai statues A fire that ripped through part of Chile's Easter Island this week has caused permanent damage to some of its iconic ...