Five hundred years ago, on the southern slopes of Easter Island's Rano Raraku volcano, the Rapa Nui people skillfully carved ...

There is no place in the world like Easter Island ... and volcanic clay body wraps. Seafood is of course abundant on the island, where every day, fisherman easily haul in full catches of deepwater ...

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 ...

Rapa Nui, or Easter ... island is named for the native people who lived there in isolation, dating to around 1280, until Dutch explorers arrived in 1722. While the Rapa Nui are best known for ...