Entries tagged 'tours'
Restoring Honokowai Valley on Maui
This is an intriguing article on restoration efforts in Honokowai Valley on Maui, from Maui No Ka Oi Magazine. A number of projects like this have cropped up over the past two decades as the Hawaiian Renaissance continues to slowly...
Honolulu By Foot: Nice Roundup Feature
Honolulu Weekly has a nice roundup of Honolulu's handful of walking tours, through Chinatown, graveyards, and other places. It's a nice read and made me want to break out the Tevas and Camelpaks (kidding, sort of). Caveat sunburn. Midday tours...
Gourmet Mag Sez Maui Chef James McDonald is Farm God
Gourmet Magazine has named Pacific'o and I'o, two highly regarded Lahaina, Maui eateries helmed by popular award-winning Chef James McDonald, to its list of top restaurants with farm connections. There were only nine restaurants named so major congrats to the...
Hawaii Gardens: Boffo Botanicals at the Allerton in Lawai, Kauai
Water, water everywhere. Tinkling, dripping, flowing. The Allerton Garden (Lāwa`i-kai) is all about the water. This is one of four National Tropical Botanical Gardens in Hawaii. It resides in lusher than lush Lāwa`i Valley, on the South Shore of Kaua`i...
Hawaii Nature: Free Forest Tours at Volcano Arts Center
Volcano is an amazing place place. A quiet town on the slopes of Kilauea Volcano and a soaring place of thousands of acres of lava fields and remnant forest, it's lovely, quiet, and eerily spiritual. Sandwiched between a smoking volcano...
Barack Obama Hawaii Vacation Tour -- Coming Soon!
In Hawaii, Obama Mania is hitting a fevered pitch as the local favorite -- he spent a number of years on Oahu and attended high school at Punahou -- starts his sprint for the White House. At Hawaiirama, I aim...
Hummer Tours in Hawaii: Ugly, Ugly, Ugly
Living in Hawaii, you learn to hate really big cars. All the parking spaces are for compacts so SUVs mean bashed paint jobs, suck-in-the-tummy egress, and tricky manuvers to fit between two of the behemoths. Hummers take this to a...
Taste of the Range: Love Family Farms
One of the real crowd pleasers at the event was the maracuya cheese cake whipped up by Love Family Farms. Ken and Margy Love run this small coffee farm in Kona with a kitschy twist. Visitors can pay to adopt...
