After its first three months of service to the Hawaiian Islands, Virgin America has already expanded its travel options from California adding direct flights from Los Angeles to both Honolulu and Kahului. The airline already offers daily service from San Francisco International Airport (SFO) to both Oahu and Maui where travelers can connect to New […]
Man. Saves. Honu. This video uploaded to Facebook out of Hawaii shows a local resident, Sai Farrell, brave a rocky shoreline to help an overturned honu (the Hawaiian word for turtle) caught in a very precarious situation. You can’t see the honu right away until about halfway through when Farrell liberates the animal submerged between
In a photo essay published in HAWAII Magazine, photographer Grant Kaye shares his slice-of-life images from his biannual visits to the island of Lanai, his childhood home and where his parents still currently reside. They’re the kind of visits that always takes him nine days just to say ‘hi’ to everybody, he says, illustrating just
We live the really good life here. In this year’s Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, an annually published report ranking the overall happiness of its residents across the U.S., Hawaii reclaims its title as the state with the happiest residents. This makes it the fifth time Hawaii leads this list since the study’s inception eight years ago,
Yesterday, professional surfer Kelly Slater saved a woman and her child from a rogue wave that swept the two of them across the Kamehameha Highway along the North Shore of Oahu. In an Instagram post by Chris White, a surf photographer from Australia, he publicly thanked the 43-year-old surf icon for rescuing his wife and
It’s that time of year to examine your life real good…and press the pause button. These activities work for visitors and residents alike looking to travel into a stress-free zone. 1. Retreat into a yoga oasis. A Day at Wanderlust O’ahu in 50 Seconds This starts tomorrow, you guys. One more sleep until Wanderlust O’ahu!
The Garden Isle gets a new route this year. Island Air is expanding its offerings to Kauai, resuming six daily roundtrip flights between Honolulu (HNL) and Lihue (LIH) on March 15. It’s been almost a year since the airline abruptly eliminated that flight route in May of last year, and now that they’re heading back
“Pacific Harmony” is this year’s theme at the 22nd annual Honolulu Festival on Oahu which runs from Friday, March 11 through Sunday, March 13. It promises to be a weekend of multi-cultural excitement that showcases the rich bond between Asian and Pacific cultures here on the Islands. The biggest highlight of this cultural exchange is
It’s a rare sighting, even for Oahu residents who’ve lived on the island all their lives. Believe it or not, the wallaby, a small marsupial that belongs to the same taxonomic family as the kangaroo, can be found in Hawaii, reported to only inhabit a small section of Kalihi Valley. Kalihi resident Olin Lagon uploaded
More than 60 years ago, the Hawaiian lei made a surprise appearance during Martin Luther King Jr.’s iconic Selma to Montgomery marches at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. To give and wear a lei is a Hawaiian emblem and gesture of love. And, during the third and final march that started on March
With Morimoto Waikiki’s R&D pau hana (happy hour) dishes and specialty drinks, you decide what potentially hits the restaurant’s main menu. “R&D is our little thing for our chefs and bar managers to play around with some ideas, bring out new items and testing the boundaries a little bit of what we can do,” says
Your friends and extended family have their tickets to Hawaii booked and now you’re in the influential position to play host. That means aside from showing them tucked-away beaches and a cool scenic hike, you’ll also need to guide them towards satisfying places to eat. We’re sure you already have traditional malasadas, Spam musubis, a
