Blogs from Waikiki, Oahu, Hawaii, United States, North America - page 28

Hawaii is gorgeous. The landscape reminds me of some place Indiana Jones would travel to. The beaches here are gorgeous, it is so clean and the water is a beautiful blue that does not exist on the east coast. The flight was long--9 hours from Chicago's airport. It was nice though, I got to see some bad movies that I would never see in the theater. That was nice. This is my blog everyone! I will update it every so often with stories and pictures of my journey. For those who do not know where I am going, I am in Hawaii and I go to Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, and then Italy. This is the best way to keep in touch with me. For anyone who wants to e-mail me directly, send them to ... read more

cant bloody believe it, first full day here and i fall asleep on the beach with my sun bins on and now have stupid panda eyes, not a great start. anyway arrived in honolulu yesterday absolutely shattered following early morning flight from calgary to denver (things to do in denver when you're dead=nothing, things to do in denver when you're alive=nothing! although i did buy a watch which was the only point of interest) and then here. you cant help loving hawaii as soon as you get off the plane, tropical air, awesome sunshiiiine, and even the bus journey through the shittier part of honolulu was alright. im staying at the waikiki beachside hostel and although its actually a block (yes a whole block!) from the beach its a pretty sweet setup, not just as im ... read more

If you’ve been following my journal for the past 6 months, you’d probably agree that the island of Oahu has earned the title of the above. From the American Indian Pow-Wow in the Autumn, the multiple Christmas shows, the nightly Hula and Polynesian performances nightly in Waikiki, the Chinese New Year’s 3 week celebration, the Mardi Gras and just this past weekend, a 2 day Honolulu 13th Annual Festival culminating with a 3 hour Parade through Waikiki. This Festival is sponsored by the Honolulu Festival Foundation of Japan, “with the purpose of promoting friendship between Japan and Hawaii, and it has now grown into a cultural exchange program among all the various regions of the Pacific Basin”. Some of the highlights this year were numerous Hula Groups from Japan, local entertainers and cultural groups, traditional Japanese ... read more

Aloha! Greetings from Waikiki. Four days of tropical island lifestyle with the unexpected twist of very cold abrupt rainshowers! Showing our true british bones, we outstayed nearly everyone on the North shore beaches who must have been allergic to rain as they all dashed immediately back into their trucks! Being budget conscious and again british, we walked almost everywhere and made the best of the $2 public bus fares instead of taking hostel shuttles or $100 taxis. Stayed on the North Shore for two nights, where Alex made the most of the surf (and walked miles barefoot to hire a board). He surfed the beach at Pipeline, I stuck to the calmer waves of Waikiki in the south today. We snorkelled with the fish in a flooded volcanic crater at Hanauma Bay, went to Pearl Harbour, ... read more

We continued on the war flavour and went to the war museum, where George went crazy with the camera.... read more