On Sunday we took the bus to the Pearl Harbor memorial. The memorial itself consists of a white walking bridge-tunnel suspended over the sunken USS Arizona battle ship, one of the 4 vessels that were irreparably damaged during the attack. Since some renovation works were being done on the memorial it was not possible to go visit it, but the boat still brought us pretty close to it.
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| USS Arizona Memorial |
Other than the memorial there is a museum explaining all the events of this tragic attack, its backgrounds and consequences. Pretty well done and instructive. After the visit we returned to Honolulu downtown and walked around the historical and political buildings. A picture with the old court house with the bronze statue of king Kamehameha, used as the headquarter of Hawai'i 5-O, was a must for us :).
On Monday we hiked up Diamond Head, the volcano crater right next to Waikiki Beach. The view from the crater of the whole bay, beaches and the city is just amazing and the water has such nice shades of blue!
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| View of Waikiki Beach from Diamond Head |
On the following day we took the bus and drove towards the inner side of the island. We first stopped at the Dole pineapple plantation and then we visited the town of Haleiwa with its nice shops. For our way back to Honolulu we erroneously took the wrong bus. The direction was the right one but the route was not the one we wanted. We drove all along the coast instead, which was actually very nice but way longer than planned. Due to this we didn't arrive in time to Waikiki Beach for the hula dance show that we planned to watch.
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| Visit of the pineapple plantation |
On our last day we relaxed at the beach and walked along the long coast of Waikiki Beach looking for places used for the filming of the Hawai'i 5-O episodes.
On Thursday 18th we left the Hawaiian island and flew to Tokyo, Japan.
We spent 3 great weeks on Hawai'i! We experienced so many nice adventures and met very nice people!
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| Sunset at Waikiki Beach |
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