The sacred statues of Easter Island have been around for at least 600 years. For centuries, the 1,000 or so stone anthropomorphic monoliths, called “moai,” on the craggy island off the … ...

Recently, a spate of bad behavior by travelers on Easter Island, which is famed for its enormous statues known as moai, has spurred new conversations about how visitors to the island should behave.

Island's famous moai statues are crumbling into the sea, forcing locals to face urgent decisions about how best to protect ...

Easter Island Statues Are Being Threatened by Tourists Wanting Pictures of Themselves Picking Noses Published Apr 26, 2019 at 6:28 AM EDT Updated Apr 26, 2019 at 12:04 PM EDT ...

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 ...

Isolated as it is, fragile Easter Island has become a popular place to travel. So much so that the Chilean government has imposed limits on how many people can visit and for how long.

Over 100,000 visitors are estimated to flock to Easter Island annually, often overwhelming the isle’s 7,750 residents, Travel + Leisure reports. The remote Pacific island, ...

Ironically, we met a girl, and she was staying at the place next door. She said, “This is the cheapest place on the island.” And it cost $16 a night, right next to our hotel, which I didn’t ...

It was supposed to be a first step in controlling the throngs of tourists and migrants that threaten the fragile ecology and cultural heritage of Easter Island.

Isolated as it is, fragile Easter Island has become a popular place to travel. So much so that the Chilean government has imposed limits on how many people can visit and for how long.