Easter Island: Two million metres apart
One of the most remote and mysterious outposts on the planet, Easter Island is an enigmatic place to practise extreme social distancing. We discover more than moai in the far, far Pacific
After a steep hike up the Te Ara O Te Ao trail, through eucalyptus, papaya, cypress and acacia trees, and across swaying grasslands dotted with purple-flowering thistles, I finally reached the vast crater rim of Rano Kau, a 324m-high volcano that dominates the southernmost tip of Easter Island. The calls of a swooping, hawk-like caracara briefly sounded before being drowned out by a howling wind that threatened to buffet me over the precipice and into the flooded caldera below.