Ride with wild dolphins in Honolulu (Photos)
Stars of Paradise’s Dolphin Watch adventure leaves from a boat harbor on Oahu’s picturesque western shore where the Dolphin Star—a two-deck catamaran with an inside dining room and a 360-degree...
View ArticleFlying above Hawaii in a seaplane (Photos)
It’s a bird. It’s a plane. No, it's not the new Superman movie. It really is a plane….a seaplane to be exact—one of those aircraft with pontoons instead of wheels...
View ArticleParade and celebration for a king in downtown Honolulu (Photos)
On Saturday, June 8, at 9am, the Kamehameha Day parade—in honor of King Kamehameha the Great who united all the Hawaiian Islands and established the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1810—sets out from King and...
View ArticleExploring a living history, sugar plantation village from Hawaii's past (Photos)
Stepping into Hawaii Plantation Village is like time traveling to Hawaii circa 1850-1950, when sugar was king and laborers from China, Japan, the Philippines, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Korea and Hawaii...
View ArticleTour Hawaii's oldest and most famous ukulele factory (Photos)
Hidden in an industrial section of Honolulu between downtown and Waikiki, the Kamaka ukulele factory still crafts the famous Hawaiian instrument just as it has for the past 97 years—by hand. And...
View ArticleA Hawaiian concert by the sea (Photos)
This Thursday, break out your lauhala mats or beach chairs, round up the family, and head to the Waikiki Aquarium for the second of its 2013 summer concert series—Ke Kani o Ke Kai, which means, ‘the...
View ArticleSummer is bon dance season in Hawaii (Photos)
Come one, come all, to the many Obon celebrations in Hawaii between July and September. And bring your dancing shoes.Held at various hongwanji (Japanese temples) throughout the Islands, the Obon...
View ArticleThis Saturday—a hula festival for a prince (Photos)
On Saturday, July 20, the 36th annual Prince Lot Hula Festival takes place at spectacular Moanalua Gardens under an impressive canopy of monkeypod and banyan trees from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.Unlike the...
View ArticleLaw of the splintered paddle, martial law at Honolulu's Judiciary Museum...
The unique legal history of Hawaii is on display at the King Kamehameha V Judiciary History Center on the ground floor of Ali’iolani Hale, right behind the Kamehameha statue in downtown Honolulu. And...
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