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 ...

Easter Island is on lots of bucket lists. Who wouldn’t want the chance to visit one of the world’s most remote islands and take selfies with those ancient, stoic stone faces? Yet there’s ...

The tiny cave church of Ayioi Saranta (forty saints) cannot begin to compete with the loud jubilation we can expect to hear at midnight on Saturday as church bells across the island will announce ...

Easter Island, also known as Rapa Nui, was first settled around A.D. 1200, and Europeans landed on its shores in 1722.The circumstances surrounding the collapse of the indigenous population of ...

Wynne’s childhood dream of visiting Easter Island finally came true in 2008. That year he launched a baseline study looking at three caves. He sampled over a dozen more caves in 2009 and 2011, and ...

A new insect species was discovered in a cave on Easter Island. The bug is about 1 mm long, or smaller than a grain of rice. (Image credit: Jut Wynne, Northern Arizona University) ...

The changes on Easter Island have been well-documented, archaeologically: Over time, elite dwellings were destroyed, inland agricultural fields were abandoned, and people took refuge in caves and ...

When it comes to Easter Island’s towering stone heads, there’s now one fewer mystery to solve. Researchers have long puzzled over why the huge statues were placed where they are. However, a ...

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.

Easter Island is on lots of bucket lists. Who wouldn’t want the chance to visit one of the world’s most remote islands and take selfies with those ancient, stoic stone faces? Yet there’s ...