Picture a place 2,000 miles off Chile’s coast ... s home to about 1,000 giant moai statues. Some are almost 30 feet tall and weigh up to 80 tons. This is Easter Island, also known as Rapa ...

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.

Researching which moai statues to visit on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) in Chile can be overwhelming. I speak from experience, ...

Famous for its monolithic Moai ... on the island’s shore. Located more than 1,200 miles east of the Pitcairn Island (its nearest inhabited neighbor), and 2,000 miles west of Chile, Easter ...

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – It is believed Moai statues were built between 1400 and 1650 AD, by people on the Easter Island in Chilean territory. They are monolithic statues made from stone, weigh 12.5 ...

How did the first inhabitants of Easter Island arrive? It is the most remote inhabited island on Earth. The coast of Chile lies 2,300 ... and erected their 15-ton moai. "It's not much different ...

The move follows five years of efforts by environmental organizations and the Rapa Nui people of Easter Island, famous for its extreme isolation and mysterious stone statues known as Moai.

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.

A forest fire on Chile's Easter Island in early October damaged at least 177 Moai or sacred monolithic statues, Unesco said. The report followed an exploratory mission to the island on October 17 ...

the moai are easily the island’s biggest attraction and they gaze out from all corners of this wind-whipped, grassy island, part of Chile’s overseas territory. Devotedly carved, then willingly ...