Years Of Traveling on MSN15 天
How Did Easter Island Get Its Statues? The Fascinating Story of the Moai
Picture a place 2,000 miles off Chile’s coast, only 14 miles long. Yet, it’s home to about 1,000 giant moai statues. Some are ...
MercoPress7 年
Chile creates a marine protected area around Easter Island
The move follows five years of efforts by environmental organizations and the Rapa Nui people of Easter Island, famous for its extreme isolation and mysterious stone statues known as Moai.
MercoPress6 年
Earthquake rocks Chile's Easter Island, but no tsunami
The Chilean island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean famous for its stone statues. An earthquake measuring 6.2 degrees on the Richter scale struck Chile's Easter Islands in the South Pacific ...
TravelPulse6 天
Chile: A Cultural Journey Through Time and Tradition
Chile offers travelers a remarkable cultural odyssey that spans thousands of years and encompasses diverse landscapes and ...
Go Backpacking on MSN3 个月
The Stone Faces of Rano Raraku: Uncovering the Secrets of Easter Island’s Moai
In 1960, a tsunami caused by an earthquake off the coast of Chile swept them ... The post The Stone Faces of Rano Raraku: ...
Business Insider India2 年
Fire damages over 177 ancient monoliths on Chile's Easter Island: Unesco
A forest fire on Chile's Easter Island in early October damaged ... report from Chile's National Forestry Corporation. Moai are "stone witnesses of a society of Polynesian origin that from the ...