The Kingdom of Hawai'i
March 28th 2011 Geo: 21.3069, -157.858Day 5 After decades of reading about it I finally made it inside the Iolani Palace ! We saw the outside yesterday but today it was open to the public. Built in 1882 for King David Kalakaura to replace the earlier royal residence the "Palace of the Heavenly Hawk" was the centrepiece of the monarchy until its fall in 1893. Here were held the Coronation, the Cou
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