Visit Rapa Nui during the famous Tapati festival. The modern island is nothing like what you might expect - even though the moai are still watching over everything.
The nearest 787 capable airport is 3,800kms away in Santiago, Chile, making Easter Island one of the most isolated inhabited islands on the planet. But the island is very connected to modernity, and the 7,000 people now on the island have evolved a distinct culture and identity, which recognises the past while embracing the future.

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00:00 Parade of the Tapati Festival
00:53 Getting to remote Easter island
01:45 The moai
02:15 Theories about what happened
03:16 Modern Rapa Nui
04:00 Rapa Nui water
04:26 The stone village
04:40 Diving around the tip of a Volcano
05:40 Only one sandy beach
06:23 Rapa Nui iron man challenge
07:32 An island of contradictions
09:33 A mystery finally solved!


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