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 ...

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 ...

Researching which moai statues to visit on Rapa Nui ... around the island. The site is also home to petroglyphs named Papa ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today, those indigenous to the land call the island Rapa Nui ... she told PBS. National Geographic reported in 2022 that there were 1,043 complete statues on Easter Island. The moai are carved ...

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 ...

the authorities informed that a Management Plan for The Nui National Park was adopted in February 1998, copy of which was made available to the Secretariat and ICOMOS. A comprehensive programme for ...

Chile officials say fire damaged some of Easter Island’s iconic moai statues A ... In bringing the Song of Rapa Nui to the world, pianist brings music education home Mahani Teave grew up on ...