Indagare’s Kial Church traveled to the far-flung island of Rapa Nui (or Easter Island) in January 2023. Here, she shares her guide to this storied destination.
Sitting 2,200 miles off the coast of Chile and home to roughly 6,000 people and 1,000 Moai statues, Easter Island owes its name to a Dutch captain who “discovered” it on Easter Sunday. But to the natives, the island is called Rapa Nui.
Only 63 square miles in size, Rapa Nui is just over half the size of Nantucket, and as a solo island t...
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