Travel resumed to Easter Island last week after COVID-19 restrictions. Last weekend, the second regular flight was performed, thus reopening one of the most iconic tourist routes after sanitary ...

“We are very happy that the island is starting this new stage of reopening. Most tourist services are ready to welcome visitors, maintaining appropriate hygiene protocols and with the hope of ...

Besides, I've wanted to visit Easter Island ever since I started writing about astro-tourism and solar eclipses in 2009, when I noticed there was to be a total solar eclipse there on Jul. 11 ...

But the fire comes just three months after the island was reopened to tourism on August 5, after two years of closure due to Covid-19. Before the pandemic, Easter Island - whose main livelihood is ...

The blaze comes just three months after the island was reopened to tourism on 5 August, after two years of closure due to COVID-19. Prior to the pandemic, Easter Island, where the main industry is ...

Mayor of Easter Island Pedro Edmunds told local media: "The damage caused by the fire can't be undone" A fire has damaged the enigmatic statues on Easter Island, with some of the charring said to ...

The ancestors warned about it, but in the frenzy of tourism, they ignored the advice until the pandemic arrived. Isolated and closed off, Chile’s Easter Island has become almost self-sustaining ...

A forest fire that tore through part of Chile’s Easter Island has charred some of its fabled monumental carved stone figures, known as moai. “Nearly 60 hectares (148 acres) were affected ...

Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island (a name given to it by Europeans ... its hotels and facilities supporting a thriving modern tourism industry. Editor's note: This article was originally ...