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 three great Maui hikes, grouped by proficiency level. We’ve already shared 6 Great […]
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”
Oh, baby, baby, it’s a wild world, indeed, especially in Hawaii’s forests and offshore waters. Sure, hikers trekking our hundreds of miles of mountain and valley trails rarely need to worry about wild things leaping out in full attack mode. (Lions and tigers and bears? Not us!) And we’ve nary a poisonous species of flora
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 four great Kauai hikes, grouped by proficiency level, straight from the pages of
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 six great Oahu hikes grouped by proficiency level. Have fun out there and bring lots
It’s incomprehensible now to imagine absolutely no one wanting to sign Kealii Reichel to a recording contract or put him in a studio. But, once upon an apparently unenlightened time in artist acquisition in the Hawaii music industry, that was the case. In 1993, armed with a cassette tape of songs he’d written and home-recorded, and hoping to
For the March/April issue of HAWAII Magazine, I visited with multiple Na Hoku Hanohano Hawaii music award-winning musician Kealii Reichel to talk about favorite songs he’s written and recorded over his two decade-plus career and how each reflected or impacted moments in his life. The result is “Kealii Reichel: A Life in Song,” a feature
Bypass the former sugar plantation town of Wahiawa on your way to the promise of North Shore surf, sand and sun and you’ll miss this serene, little-known tropical oasis in the heart of the town’s residential grid. Heck, you could even miss Wahiawa Botanical Garden on a drive through the town. I did, for years,
The two-lane Kuhio Highway blacktop between Hanalei town and Kee Beach on Kauai’s uber scenic north shore may be the coolest little road trip in the state. “Cool” because it meanders past some of the prettiest beaches on the island, breathtaking mountains and valleys, and amazing natural wonders, like some paradisical country road designed by
It’s 7 a.m. and I have the single-lane wooden bridge crossing Kawainui Stream to myself. The rain-swollen stream thunders out of the maw of an old railway diversion blasted out of bedrock, now long hidden by vegetation. At this time of day, there are few travelers on this four-mile-section of Old Mamalahoa Highway simply called
Inside HAWAII Magazine’s November/December 2014 Food Issue you’ll find “75 Places to Eat Like a Local,” our now annual guide to the Hawaii places you’ll find residents like us heading to eat when we’re famished. This year’s “75 Places to Eat Like a Local: Mixed Plate Edition” digs into the Islands’ renowned array of multicultural
HAWAII Magazine’s 2014 Food Issue is on sale now. Inside the issue you’ll find “75 Places to Eat Like a Local,” our now annual guide to the Hawaii places you’ll find residents like us heading to eat when we’re famished. This year’s “75 Places to Eat Like a Local: Mixed Plate Edition” digs into the
