Chances are good that you’ve never been to Waimanu Valley. The largest of a string of remote valleys along a dozen miles of rugged, windswept Hamakua coastline between more accessible and well-known Big Island valleys Waipio and Pololu, Waimanu is not an easy place to visit. There is only one way in—by foot on the […]
Today is King Kamehameha Day in Hawaii. The official state holiday honors and remembers King Kamehameha the Great—who established the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1810 and was its first monarch—with lei-draping ceremonies, parades and other cultural celebrations. King Kamehameha V began the holiday to honor his grandfather, King Kamehameha I, on June 11, 1872 and
Obon, a Japanese Buddhist season honoring ancestors’ memories and sacrifices, fills Hawaii event calendars annually between June and August. According to Japanese tradition, that’s when spirits return to visit family and friends. Photo: Alan Kubota. If you’re in the Islands this summer you should definitely participate in at least one. Looking for an event this
Hawaii is hikers’ nirvana, with trails on every island for every level of hiking experience, over multiple varieties of terra firma (and not-so-firma), showcasing every measure of our Islands’ world-renowned diversity of landscapes, climate zones and unsurpassed natural wonder. Below you’ll find two great Hawaii Island hikes straight from the pages of HAWAII Magazine’s May/June
Repeat visitors to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on Hawaii Island and Haleakala National Park on Maui this week may have noticed it costs a little more to visit and camp there. Pricing changes at both parks took effect on Mon., June 1. At Hawaii Volcanoes, the state’s most visited national park, the formerly $10 seven-day
Not all that long ago, in a city far, far away (from Honolulu), there were many people who swore Hilo had the best okazuya in Hawaii. So what if most of those people lived in Hilo? It was true. The breed of take-out lunch shop known as okazuya—a Hawaii-born amalgam of the Japanese words “okazu”
Love a good movie? If you’re on Hawaii Island over the next few days the 10th annual Big Island Film Festival will bring 50 new films, including 13 by Hawaii filmmakers (and six of those from Hawaii Island), to three screening venues on the Kohala Coast. The five-day fest will get under way tomorrow, Thurs.,
It’s remarkable how a single photo can encapsulate the memories of an entire journey and serve as lifelong “proof” that you visited a really special place. Especially when that photo was taken as part of a once-in-a-lifetime trip to a place like Hawaii. So we wanted to know: What’s the one Hawaii photo you’ve taken
Here’s a blast back to HAWAII Magazine’s 2014 Outdoor Issue and a photo that itself deserves “One Last Look.”
How many species of animals, plants, microbes and fungi currently call Hawaii Volcanoes National Park home? With 333,086-acres of barren lava rock, dry forest and rugged coastline, that’s a pretty challenging question to answer. But, after this weekend’s National Geographic Society-organized BioBlitz, it could get easier. Themed I ka nana no a ike (by observing,
Hawaii is the only U.S. state with a climate suitable for commercial cacao production, which means we’re the only U.S. state with lots of great truly local chocolate. If you’re on Hawaii Island over the next few days, you could be in for a real treat: The Big Island Chocolate Festival kicks off today. Now
On May 1 much of the northern hemisphere celebrates and welcomes spring, or celebrates unions and worker’s rights. In Hawaii, the day is a celebration of Hawaiian culture and tradition: May Day is Lei Day. Lei Day festivities often include fragrant floral lei-making competitions, hula and music concerts and the sharing of lei among friends
