We are going to Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile)
We are planning to go to Easter Island, proper name Rapa Nui, which is situated in the Pacific Ocean a long way off the coast of Chile. As usual, I have to rely on Wikipedia, to which I contribute $$, for help in supplying background information for my blogs so here is their entry on Easter island Quote Easter Island ( Spanish : Isla de Pascua [ Rapa Nui : Rapa Nui ) is an island and special territory of Chile in the southeastern Pacific Ocean , at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle in Oceania . The island is most famous for its nearly 1,000 extant monumental statues, called moai , which were created by the early Rapa Nui people . In 1995, UNESCO named Easter Island a World Heritage Site , with much of the island protected within Rapa Nui National Park . Experts disagree on when the island's Polynesian inhabitants first reached the island. While many in the research community cited evidence that they arrived around the year 800, a 2007 stud