Easter Island, Chile

Easter Island is a Chilean island and special territory in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, near the southeasternmost tip of Oceania's Polynesian Triangle. The island is most known for its roughly 1,000 existing massive sculptures known as moai, which were built by the Rapa Nui people. Easter Island was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1995, with the majority of the island preserved inside Rapa Nui National Park.

Easter Island, located in the South Pacific more than 2,000 miles off the coast of Chile, is not the easiest destination to get there. (If you're interested, the best way to get there is via plane from Santiago or Tahiti.) However, the island's remoteness has aided in the preservation of the 1,500-year-old mystery gathering of volcanic rock sculptures (MAOI), which is the island's main claim to fame. After visiting the unusual terrain, unwind on an uncrowded beach and reflect on one of the world's most intriguing locations.

Easter Island is extraordinarily inaccessible, despite being well-known and cherished. The largest tourist attractions on the island are the gigantic moai monoliths, which have drawn visitors for millennia despite the island's great geographic isolation.

Camping beneath the Polynesian sky, meeting and interacting with the residents of the world's most distant inhabited island, and exploring its natural wonders on foot and by bike are all options. If you wish to travel, you'll have to fly to Santiago, where you'll only be able to take flights with Chile's national carrier. You're looking at another six hours in the air from Chile's capital!