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 ...

Jon Canfield Easter Island Moai. Courtesy of Flickr user Ndecam ... About 2,000 miles off the coast of South America sits the Chile-governed Easter Island. Just 14 miles long and 7 miles wide ...

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 ...

However, standing face to face with the moai statues is an indescribable experience. Easter ... coast of Chile and over 2,500 miles from Tahiti. Its closest neighbor, Pitcairn Island, is 1,200 ...

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

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 ...

On average, they stand 13 feet high and weigh 14 tons, human heads-on-torsos carved in the male form from rough hardened volcanic ash. The islanders call them "moai," and they have puzzled ...

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 ...

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