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Four Seasons Resort Hualalai
Hawai‘i Island, Kauaʻi, Lānaʻi, Maui, Oʻahu, Travel Tips

The 20 Best Hawaii Luxury Hotels and Resorts: HAWAII Magazine Readers’ Choice Awards 2014

Last summer and fall, we asked our reader ohana to share their picks of the best of everything the Hawaiian Islands have to offer for our 2014 HAWAII Magazine Readers’ Choice Awards. Thousands of our Mainland U.S., Hawaii and international readers responded, packing their Readers’ Choice ballots with hundreds of selections for everything from their

Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole
Kauaʻi, Maui, Oʻahu

Hawaii Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole honored in March celebrations on Kauai, Oahu and Maui. Here’s the schedule.

A concert, parade and even an imu (Hawaiian underground oven) workshop are all part of March events commemorating the birthday of Hawaii’s Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole beginning this weekend on three islands. Born in the south Kauai town of Koloa in 1871, Kuhio created much of the Hawaii the world sees today. A prince of

Heeia Fishpond
Arts + Culture, Environment, Oʻahu, O‘ahu Arts + Culture, The Latest

New mobile app offers virtual tour of 800-year-old Hawaiian fishpond

A new iPhone app created by the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology allows users to virtually visit one of Oahu’s most historic Hawaiian fishponds wherever they are in the world. The free app called Loko Ia—Hawaiian for “fishpond”—offers iPhone users two types of interactive, multimedia tours of 800-year-old Heeia Fishpond

Hawaiian Garlic Shrimp
Family, First-Time, Food, From Our Magazine, Oʻahu, O‘ahu Where To Eat, Restaurants, Solo, The Latest, Where To Eat

Big Shrimpin’! Our Guide to North Shore Oahu Shrimp Trucks and Stands

It’s easy to brand the popular and pervasive North Shore O‘ahu shrimp shacks and trucks as tourist traps. On most days near lunchtime, it’s not uncommon to find dozens of packed tour vans parked outside shrimp purveyors between the North Shore towns of Hale‘iwa and Kahuku, their passengers scarfing down plates of shrimp. Catch us

Ocean Count 2
Hawai‘i Island, Kauaʻi, Oʻahu

Are you ready for some whale counting? Volunteers welcome for annual Hawaii humpback whale Ocean Count.

Imagine spending a morning in the Islands watching humpback whales breach and spout as they migrate through the warm Hawaiian waters, all the while helping marine scientists study the habits of our largest annual visitors. These are just two of the benefits of volunteering for the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary Ocean Count,

Hoomaluhia 1
Oʻahu

Exploring Oahu’s Hoomaluhia Botanical Garden

Each of my past several visits to Hoomaluhia Botanical Garden began at sunrise. Greeted by a few wild chickens strutting near the park’s still-locked, gated entry, my running buddies and I would lace up our footwear and survey the skies above Windward Oahu and the lushly verdant hills before us. Then, rain or shine, we

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