Easter Island's small size and open roads make it perfect for a day of self-guided exploration in a rental car. Renting a car allowed us to discover its iconic moai, hidden caves, and sweeping ...

There is no place in the world like Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui. It feels like it is not even of this world. Located more than 2,000 miles from South America's mainland, it is one of the ...

Over Easter, people take flowers to the cave church and light candles, ... one of many cave churches nested around the island, hidden among the hundreds of churches and monasteries in full view.

A number of Easter Island’s iconic ‘Moai’ stone statues suffered irreparable damage after a wildfire swept through the island earlier this week, the island’s mayor told Reut… ...

The stone giants are far from the only endangered monuments on the island: tiny Rapa Nui is home to over 400 archaeological sites, including petroglyphs, quarries, fishing caves, burial sites ...

Famous for its towering stone statues, Easter Island – also known as Rapa Nui – in the Pacific Ocean is thought to have been inhabited by Polynesians since around AD 1200. At… Advertisement ...