Jul 18th, 2009 at 8:00PM: If you're traveling to Easter Island, then your visit is surely incomplete if you aren't able to see the Moai statues with your own two eyes. These statues can be found along the coastal periphery of this special island, which is nestled conveniently between the nations of Tahiti and Chile. You can only get to the island through one of these two places too -- or by boat. But what a special place ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Photo of the Day (7.18.09)
Jul 18th, 2009 at 8:00PM: If you're traveling to Easter Island, then your visit is surely incomplete if you aren't able to see the Moai statues with your own two eyes. These statues can be found along the coastal periphery of this special island, which is nestled conveniently between the nations of Tahiti and Chile. You can only get to the island through one of these two places too -- or by boat. But what a special place ...Adventure Destination: Easter Island
May 18th, 2009 at 2:00PM: Easter Island has always been a place of great mystery. Everyone is aware of the iconic stone faces that number more than 800 and stand as much as 10 meters in height and weighing in at nearly 75 tons. The figures were carved by inhabitants of the island between 1250 and 1500 AD, and their construction and transportation to various parts of the island, is still considered a remarkable feat. The ...Nine wonders in 26 days
Feb 25th, 2009 at 9:00AM: Planning ahead has never paid off quite so much. If you're thinking about a big trip for the fall, kick around Abercrombie & Kent's "Nine Wonders of the World" excursion. A private jet will cart you to the most impressive destinations our planet has to offer over 26 days, and you just won't want to come back to reality. The experience kicks off on October 19 at the Four Seasons Hotel Miami, ...12 Amazing Crater Lakes
Feb 11th, 2009 at 9:00AM: Environmental Graffiti, the same website that brought us those amazing views from the tops of the Seven Summits last week, returns with even more great images. The subject of their latest story is the 12 Most Incredible Crater Lakes on Earth. These amazing natural wonders are created not from the impact of a meteorite, but instead they are formed when the collapsed cone of a volcano fills up with ...Five things you didn't know about Chile
Nov 26th, 2008 at 8:30AM: Having recently returned from a fantastic trip to Chile, I feel compelled to spread the good news about this long, thin pencil of a country. I've already sung the praises of its Torres del Paine National Park-- now here are five more reasons to make Chile your next travel destination.
1. The Atacama Desert, the driest spot in the world. There are some spots in this desert where precipitation has ...After Easter Island statue vandalized by a Finn many want his ear
Mar 28th, 2008 at 1:00PM: As Grant pointed out, the Giza Pyramids are not for wandering about freely because of vandalism. Here are some more can't get close to items. Plymouth Rock can't be seen up close due to vandals that once chipped at it for a souvenir. You can't wander around Stonehenge at random anymore for the same reason. You can't get too close to Michelangelo's, Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica either. A ...Man arrested for attempting to steal parts of Easter Island statues
Mar 26th, 2008 at 11:40AM: This is why archaeologists hate tourists and why we're not allowed to walk around freely in the Giza Pyramids anymore. Because we can't keep our hands off of things. The BBC is reporting that a Finnish Tourist on the Easter Islands was recently arrested for trying to steal a chunk off of the famous Moai statues. He was apparently spotted reaching up to try to pry off an earlobe, then, on breaking ...Why pay to travel when you have Google Earth?
Jan 20th, 2008 at 3:00PM: A quirky media dust-up this week brought a lot of attention to one mom 'n pop website: Google Sightseeing. Their motto is "why bother seeing the world for real?". What they've done is managed to collect a huge database of sights that you can actually see from Google Earth. But one sight you won't be seeing (or at least in anything more than a super blurry blob) is the world's largest palm tree, ...Luxury travel to an unexpected place
Dec 26th, 2007 at 1:30PM: I'm absolutely obsessed with Easter Island. I desperately tried to go earlier this year and pitched several story ideas, mostly about a particular researcher who is completing the most comprehensive mapping project of the statues and other archaeological sites to date (to be finished in summer 2008). He also has a radical new theory about how the place was destroyed: by rats, not humans, which is ...Most expensive flight in coach? You tell me
Nov 30th, 2007 at 3:00PM: Grant just had some in-depth and helpful posts about the best times to buy airline tickets. That got me thinking about a couple recent near-purchases on my part. What's confounded me when checking out ticket prices is how geographic distance often has little correlation with the cost of the flight. Yesterday I was checking on flights from Newark, USA to Port Moresby, Papa New Guinea. The cheapest ...Thirteen places in the world to creep you out
Oct 26th, 2007 at 1:30PM: Kelly's post on haunted hotels reminded me of when I was a kid. There was an abandoned house on my grandparents' street that was too hard to ignore. One Halloween my cousins and I dared each other to run across the front porch and knock on the front door after dark. Imagine my surprise when, instead of my fist meeting the glass of the door's window as I expected, my fist kept going. There wasn't ...One for the Road (04/08/07)
Apr 8th, 2007 at 10:37AM: The remote island of Rapa Nui is known as Easter Island thanks to Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen, who christened the name when he came upon the secluded spot in the South Pacific on Easter Sunday in 1722. Many travel guides simply include a section on the island (and its famous mysterious moai statues) in their books that cover Chile. One of the more recently updated guides containing information ...Casas Rapa Nui on Easter Island
Apr 9th, 2006 at 8:30AM: It seems to me the whole luxury hotel in exotic
places thing has taken a turn for the weird. Not that I haven't always wanted to visit Easter Island, which lies
waaaaay off the coast of Chile, but it just seems kind of lame to put some luxury accommodations there. I mean, I
thought the whole point of Easter Island is its remoteness and simplicity. But maybe I'm just a reactionary. Off ...
