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 ...

Visiting Easter Island requires a six-hour flight from Santiago, Chile. Only one airline ... famous for its enormous stone statues known as moai. The statues, which are carved from volcanic ...

The statues at Ahu Tongariki were initially toppled during infighting on Easter Island. In 1960, a tsunami caused by an ...

The ancient statues known as moai are everyday sights on Easter Island, or Rapa Nui—native dancers in body paint, less so. Some 2,000 Rapanui live on the island, which belongs to Chile.

Famous for its monolithic Moai head stones that were mysteriously ... nearest inhabited neighbor), and 2,000 miles west of Chile, Easter Island marks the south-eastern point of the Polynesian ...

A university spokesperson said the remains had not been used for research in several decades, before which it isn’t ...

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 ...

Travelers have long been fascinated by the hundreds of massive moai ... Santiago, Chile. LATAM is the only airline that flies out of Santiago into Hanga Roa, the capital of Easter Island.

From the 10th to the 16th century this society built shrines and erected enormous stone figures known as moai ... context. Easter Island, the most remote inhabited island on the planet, is 3,700 ...

He is also Assistant Professor of Prehistory at the University of Chile, Research Fellow ... restoration of Ahu Akivi, one of Easter Island's most visited moai sites. In 1977 he was a founder ...