Easter Island, Chile, is equally impressive to families with children, couples or single travelers.
Chile, of which Easter Island is a territory, is 2, 300 miles to the east.
On Easter Island, fish hooks were fashioned from the thigh bones of deceased fishermen.
One of many Easter Island mysteries is how this remote piece of land came to be inhabited.
They found that their model described the Easter microplate (just off Easter Island, in the Pacific) quite well.
Researchers are looking for evidence that might show how a change in climate precipitated the demise of the people of Easter Island.
The combination of mystery, awe and natural beauty is unmatched, making the Moai of Easter Island even more compelling than Mayan, Incan and Egyptian ruins.
National Geographic Expeditions runs tours throughout the year for the same price, covering natural wonders like Easter Island and the tropical Daintree rain forest in Australia.
Easter Island is a deeply spiritual and moving place, and there is truly nothing else like it, and what is there can be seen no place else.
They are chemical variants of an antibiotic called rapamycin, which Wyeth researchers found in soil samples from Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean in the late 1960s.
The lodge has stellar guides and a vast schedule of more than 15 excursions, allowing you to explore Easter Island on foot, bike, or even by boat.
Viewers are taken to Easter Island in the South Pacific, where scientists are trying to determine why the island's population mysteriously disappeared in the middle of the 1700s.
Frederick Gilliard hit wife Josephine, 74, with a statue in the shape of an Easter Island head and stabbed her at their home in Blackpool on 5 February.
The Haida's woodworking skills also extended to onshore structures, including cedar plank and long houses, and the iconic mortuary and memorial poles on par with Easter Island's statues minus the mystery.
For reference, a handful of time zones are listed below -- we considered adding Easter Island, but we have yet to confirm whether or not the Moai forbid access to the internet.
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Mr Fischer's own expertise lies in this area: he deciphered the rongorongo script of Easter Island, something that looks more like a design for children's wallpaper than a way to convey information.
Their journeys and settlements stretch from South East Asia and Melanesia in the West, to Hawaii in the north, Rapanui or Easter Island in the East and Aotearoa New Zealand in the South.
And with a final wave to the soaked crowd gathered around her, the new queen of Easter Island slides off her throne and disappears into the night, to the party that surely awaits.
Which brings us back to de Boinod's title: tingo is an invaluable word from the Pascuense language of Easter Island meaning "to borrow objects from a friend's house, one by one, until there's nothing left".
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Easter Island is part of Chile, far off its coast (like Hawaii), but it also claims to be the inhabited place furthest from any other inhabited place on earth, and a 5-hour flight into the Pacific.
With the Santiago business traveler in mind, CNN asked Lonely Planet's Bridget Gleeson, co- author of Lonely Planet Chile and Easter Island Travel Guide, to lend her expertise in selecting the city's best spots.
Combining a couple of days in Santiago with a visit to Easter Island is a perfect weeklong trip, and while it can be easier to get to Lima, the city is not nearly as attractive a destination.
With other Explorers Club members, Bennett has traveled to Hawaii to study humpback whales, to Madagascar to catalog the island's flora and fauna, to Mount Kilimanjaro for a bit of bioprospecting, and to Easter Island for an archeology project.
So the great tradition is not dead, even if Britain's politicians still have much to learn to reach the standards of Australia, where a future prime minister, Paul Keating, told an incumbent one, Malcolm Fraser, that he looked like an Easter Island statue with an arse full of razor blades.
The woman said some locals were concerned that Arran's electricity network would not be able to cope with the thousands of holidaymakers due to descend on the island for the Easter weekend.
After mass on Maundy Thursday before the Christian holiday of Easter, each of six villages on the Dalmatian island of Hvar in southern Croatia sends out a group that will proceed through the other villages in a circle, covering twenty-five kilometres in eight hours before returning home.
At its Easter meeting, Chief Pleas rejected a call to create the island's first full-time administrator roll by a vote of 14-13.
Shoshanna McCollum, a writer who has lived full-time on the island since 1996, said her home flooded for the sixth time since Sandy when a nor'easter struck last week.
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