Rapa Nui National Park is a protected Chilean wildlife area located in Easter Island, which concentrates the legacy of the Rapa Nui culture. This culture displayed extraordinary characteristics that ...

A decades-long stretch of extremely low precipitation in the 1500s may have spurred cultural changes among the Rapa Nui ...

Some cruise lines, including MSC, Seabourn and Holland America also have itineraries with Easter Island stops. Rapa Nui National Park covers half of the island, and feels like an "open-air museum ...

This story appears in the July 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine ... an indigenous Polynesian resident of Rapa Nui, as the locals call Easter Island; his own ancestors probably helped ...

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

Easter Island, a territory of Chile, is a remote volcanic island in Polynesia, whose native name is Rapa Nui. It is famous for its archaeological sites, including nearly 900 monumental statues ...

Hotu Matu'a and his family landed on Easter Island at Anakena Beach. Te-Pito-te-Henua, "end of the land," or "land's end," is an early name for the island. On Rapa Nui, the more modern ...

There is a Rapa-nui wedding ceremony, complete with loincloth, awaiting you on Chile’s Easter Island. Chilean tour companies offer a range of ceremonies on beautiful island locales that include ...

Rapa Nui National Park is a protected Chilean wildlife area located in Easter Island, which concentrates the legacy of the Rapa Nui culture. This culture displayed extraordinary characteristics that ...

Rapa Nui, the indigenous name of Easter Island, bears witness to a unique cultural phenomenon. A society of Polynesian origin that settled there c. A.D. 300 established a powerful, imaginative and ...