Easter Island
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This Polynesian island in the southeast Pacific Ocean is one of the most remote inhabited islands in the world, with the nearest inhabited island - Pitcairn Island - being 1,300 miles away (and still only home to 50 people).Easter Island
is mostly protected within Rapa Nui National Park, since the island has suffered massive soil erosion due to extensive deforestation and massive agriculture. Visiting Easter Island will fulfill whatever that "remote" feeling is when one meets the 887 monumental statues (or “moai”) carved by the early Rapanui people to represent their deceased ancestors - a people who have endured famine, disease, civil war, slave raids, colonialism, and steep population declines. Staring back at one of these grave faces isn't quite sipping a mango mai tai under an umbrella and gazing out to the ocean, but there's a similar feeling of existential compression. Or maybe you're just drunk.
is mostly protected within Rapa Nui National Park, since the island has suffered massive soil erosion due to extensive deforestation and massive agriculture. Visiting Easter Island will fulfill whatever that "remote" feeling is when one meets the 887 monumental statues (or “moai”) carved by the early Rapanui people to represent their deceased ancestors - a people who have endured famine, disease, civil war, slave raids, colonialism, and steep population declines. Staring back at one of these grave faces isn't quite sipping a mango mai tai under an umbrella and gazing out to the ocean, but there's a similar feeling of existential compression. Or maybe you're just drunk.
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