If you didn’t get a ticket to watch the Merrie Monarch Festival, Hawaii’s premier hula competition, don’t feel bad, not many of us did. But just because you aren’t going to be able to see the hula halau (hula schools) perform in-person doesn’t mean you can’t see it at all. Below is the schedule of events for the three […]
Folks, you’re looking at history in the making. This photo, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), consisting of eight radio telescope observatories around the world working together, is the first ever image we’ve seen of an actual black hole—or rather, the silhouette of the black hole against the bright material surrounding it. Two Hawaii
If you’re ever on the Big Island’s Hilton Waikoloa Village property and see a surf-themed bar on wheels heading your way, don’t worry, it’s not a dream. What you’re seeing is one of the Hilton Waikoloa Village”s newest amenities: the Kohala Beverage Cart. The resort is describing it as an “adult ice cream truck,” maybe because the cart plays jaunty
A messy-haired boy in a superhero-red T-shirt and Crocs lowers himself to the level of two baby goats. One nudges his hand with its bony head, and the kid laughs hysterically. “Mom, mom, the goat head-butted me,” he calls out, smiling. Getting up close and personal with farm animals is part of the experience at
On a Sunday at sunrise, the South Kona sky painted in pastels, I drive bleary-eyed on Māmalahoa Highway heading south past monstera and banana plants toward the hulking mass of Mauna Loa, rising nearly 1,500 feet into the sky. Two quick turns past roadside fruit stands and my car rumbles into the parking lot of
There are quite a few ways to circumvent being cold. You could grab a blanket, or don your favorite pair of sweatpants. Or you could jump on Hilton Waikoloa Village’s “Escape to Hawaii” deal, which is offering discounted room rates on its Ocean Tower (rooms start as low as $179) and Palace Tower (rooms start
A scuba instructor since 1985, Keller Laros joined Big Island snorkel and dive company Jack’s Diving Locker in 1991, and in 2012 also founded the Manta Pacific Research Foundation. Now a Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) master scuba diver trainer, Laros has logged 12,600 scuba dives, and is famously known for disentangling a dolphin
Come journey with us beneath the sea as we descend with Atlantis Submarines Kona into another world off Hawaii Islandʻs Kailua-Kona Coast. To find out more or book a tour on Atlantis Submarines, visit: atlantisadventures.com/kona
It’s early on a Thursday morning, the sun is just beginning to rise over North Kohala and I’m staring up at the king himself. Standing regally with his right arm outstretched, the King Kamehameha statue looks out over the small town of Kapaau, where he was born. The area itself is full of personality and
Hidden by rain forest off Mamalahoa Highway, the town of Volcano is easy to miss if you don’t know it’s there. It sits on the slopes of—you guessed it—Kilauea volcano, right outside Hawaii Volcanoes National Park at a cool elevation of 3,750 feet. Once you lay eyes on the quaint country town and spend some
There’s so much to do and see on the Big Island. Come with us as we take you down breathtaking ziplines to the base of a private waterfall with Hawaii Forest & Trail, to a Greenwell Farms tasting tour of one of the Big Island’s most famous products, Kona coffee. Finally, relax with us oceanside
Good news for visitors wanting to experience the memorials at Pearl Harbor’s World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument, Oahu during the current government shutdown that started on Dec. 22: It’s received funding to stay open—at least until Sunday, Jan. 6. Thanks to four nonprofit organizations that originally stepped up to keep the
