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Hilo Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Hilo, United States
the earth, the food, and the stars
This is a top pick! ... ; I've got to pick up a few CDs with my favorite music so I can bring the hula back to my living room... I'm off to Hilo for the weekend, where there's so much going on during the next few days that it seems to be the only choice. I'm lucky ...
A Slow Boat Back To Asia
This is a top pick! ... to say, we had a lot of laughs with this group and were regularly the last group evicted from the dining room. Our first stop was Hilo on the Big Island of Hawaii. It was great to get back on dry land again, and DH and I had booked a ...
Journey to Paradise: Hilo (Big Island)
This is a top pick! HILO We started our day with breakfast at Lazy J. As we headed to the car rental pick up, we saw Alamo and we were tempted to take it but decided to wait for Thrifty shuttle (which was a good decision). The shuttle driver checked our ...
Sea Induced Inebriation
This is a top pick! Aside from Elenka, and a few pious others, many of us remember our younger days when we'd flop into bed at three or four in the morning after drinking pails of beer and then have to wake up by seven or so to get ready for work. The head would have ...
The Big Island Hawaii - 12 Inches Of Rain.
This is a top pick! ... molten lava. Our feet were burning hot by the time we moved away from the site. Our last 2 nights were spent at Hilo Bayside Hostel where the manager recognizing our accents delivered a jar of Vegemite with a flourish! Other memorable times of the Big ...
eh..its not THAT big...
This is a top pick! Got a cheap flight to the Big Island of Hawaii. entry coming ...
Leaving Maui for the Big Island
*Sniff* Oh Maui Coast, how we'll miss you! You were expensive but all the little extra perks you gave us made your price worth it. We loved being able to walk across the road to the beach, or to the local shops and eateries, or to not walk anywhere at ...
Volcanoes - up close and personal with Al and Pete
This is a top pick! ... up hitch hiker on the way back down to the highway. He doesn’t look like the knife wielding type. Drop him in Hilo and then Phillip and Karl get out as well as they want to shop. Park down by waterfront and have a wander. ...
Tsunami!
... . After a while it became clear that the giant waves that had been feared would not materialize; the tallest waves at Hilo approached 6 feet, with an average of about 3 feet. There was a mixed feeling of relief and disappointment in the ...
We visit Mordor
We took off from the Hilo International Airport this morning at 11am in a helicopter operated by Sunshine Helicopters. Listing off from the heliopad, we rose up over Hilo and then flew south, toward Volcano National Park. In the park one finds ...
This is an internet first for me: i am ...
... cones large and small. Then the vegetation began to pop up here and there, increasing gradually until we dropped into the lush Hilo area. Here they get about 130 inches of rain a year (I think its around 42 inches in Seattle). Combine that with lots ...
Volcanoes and Waterfalls
... , arched bridges and Coy fish ponds. It was a relief to finally fly past a stereotypical Hawaiian rainbow to our final destination of Hilo, on the Big Island of Hawaii. Hilo - Land of Rain and Theo There are two things ...
Highpoints in the Pacific
Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa are two of the five volcanoes that make up the Big Island of Hawaii, and are the tallest in the state at 13,796 and 13,677 ft respectively. In fact, when measured from its base on the sea floor (which is considerably ...
Big Island north route - and the hulemaka flip.
... down the east coast, where the incident described above took place (note the white bandage on my elbow in the last picture), to Hilo. Mid-afternoon we traded our camper van for a car and retraced our steps across the island to Kona where we're staying ...
Out of the rain shadow, into the rain...
... gone. Ironically, we only had a little time for a stunning ride along the rim of the huge Kilauea crater before leaving Hawai'i Volcanoes for Hilo. Well, at least we got to see the crater in the end. The ride to Hilo was a real treat, about 25 miles, all ...
Day 18
Last day at sea before arriving in Hilo! Breakfast in bed today (gonna miss room service forsure). Lots of activities going on today, with a movie in the theater at noon, bingo (Sara, does this take you back to the community center days), trivia, shows, ...
Big Island of Hawaii
A week at what I'd call a "tropical new age summer camp for adults". Healthy creative meals and outdoor adventures in a paradise setting (but with basic cabin-like accommodation). Highlights were 1) hiking above Akaka Falls to beautiful remote pools ...
Back to Kona
... we're back to Kona and relaxing. After our stop at Ken's House of Pancakes, we drove north out of Hilo. We drove through retired sugar cane fields and current pineapple fields. The scenery alternated between rainforest where the trees created a ...
The Big Island
... 't have been further from what we actually saw. When the volcano erupted in 1984 the lava flow began heading for the town of Hilo. The main vent apparently plugged up just in time to prevent the evacuation of the town with the lava flow stopping 7 miles ...
Nawiliwili, Island of Kauai – 5 February 201
Nawiliwili, Island of Kauai – 5 February 2013 Our visit to the second Hawaiin Island has been the most fantastic day yet. When we were in Honolulu, Hawaii, yesterday we had not booked a trip for this Island as we had left it too late and ...
Hawaii (The big island).
... were with the flow for about 3 minutes its started to rain heavily (something it does here allot, its the wettest place in the states!!) and we had a white out. This meant that the steam off the flow was so intense we couldn't see anything!! Not even ...
Off on a (new) adventure for sure
Tonight we're staying at the Inn at Kulaniapia Falls, an incredible bed and breakfast with a 120-foot high waterfall outside our door and are being serenaded (for better or worse) by a swarm of coqui frogs--their incessant "bo-PEEP" sounding ...
Day 19
... island. We were able to hike out to some amazing waterfalls and beautiful scenery along the way. Nice to see this side of Hilo before heading to our helicopter excursion. Next stop--- up up and away....Great trip with a flight over the volcano and lava ...
Hawaii- the Big Island- from Volcano village
Hawaii- the Big Island- from the village of Volcano The huge volcano this end of Hawaii island is Mauna loa, and it's said to be the most massive mountain on earth, rising 56,000 ft from sea floor. I think measuring from the sea floor is cheating, ...
First Stop - Hilo, Hawaii
... to see the King Kamehameha statue in Bayfront Park. Signs near the statue show the timeline of his rule as he united the Hawaiian Islands. In fact, all the sights we visited in Hilo had terrific signage and made our stops more ...
music and volcanoes
well the day before yesterday we went up to Volcanoes National Park and man was it windy. went to where the lava is flowing but were too tired to hike up close to it. but you could see it from a distance expecially as it got dark. luckily found a ...