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Hilo Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Hilo, United States
Los Angeles to Hilo
... pretended to be our uncle. Landed in Honolulu but couldn't get off. Only about 20-30 people on the plane from Honolulu to Hilo. Arrived at Hilo airport. Rented a car and went to the Dolphin Bay Hotel. On the plane, these are all firsts: ate on a plane, ...
Freezing Observatories, Turtles and Flowing Lava
Day 1 - Transit Arrived late in the afternoon to Hilo and managed to get a free taxi ride from the airport since I was staying at the hostel at least 2 nights and so they paid the fair. Seems like a nice and friendly place and not to busy. Ended ...
Special Security Screening
I was very late in getting to the airport at Hilo because I lost track of time when I was talking to Mojo this morning, who has some interesting theories regarding women ruling the world. (He thinks they should have at least a fifty percent share - ...
4.200m ueber dem Meer
... auch die vergangenen Tage immer mit Sonnenschein verwoehnt, auch wenn es hier einigermassen schwuel ist dank der Feuchtigkeit. Angeblich ist Hilo die verregnetste Stadt der USA. Ts! Von wegen Seattle...!!! ;-) Bei meiner Ankunft im Hostel werde ich von ...
Christmas Day 2007: Hilo to South Point
... this one is certainly in the right category. On Christmas Day 2007, we happened to find ourselves in the "most" southerly point of the United States of America. At this point the United States is on a latitudinal line well below Mexico City. We are in the ...
Throwin' my Return airplane ticket away!
ALOHA!! ok so i decided to stay on here in Hawaii and let my airplane ticket go void (its alomost as much to change my flight as to buy a new ticket!) soooo.... here i stay.... YA! and i dont have much time once again and it costs alot to pay ...
Hilo and Volcanoes National Park
I woke up at 4:00 Hawaii time! But 7:00 LA time. My sister and I played games for a long time in our room (we had a kitchen, a large room with a hide-away bed, a bathroom, and a room which Ardie and I slept in). At 8:00 we had breakfast then we went to ...
A quite couple of days
Day 1 - Not much After getting the bus back from Volcano NP I didnt really have much to do though I definately needed to do some laudrary at the local laundry mat. After getting back to the hostel found that Matt (who had my bag) had lost his job for ...
Big Island and Volcanos Tour
... he would take it to the pound. Obviously we declined to keep it. We began the tour at 10:30am visiting the town of Hilo and then the afternoon at the national park with sightings of lava and volcanos. Lots of lava formations. We stopped at the volcano ...
My Way: Waikiki and the Big Island
... the bags in tow, my Big Island book in hand, not to return to Waikiki for the foreseeable future. Got on the Hawaiian airline flight to Hilo not knowing where I was going or how I was going to pick up the car - but I always fly by the seat of my pants ...
Aloha from Hawaii
... cannot make up for the lack of entertainment and spunk that the city itself lacks. After downtown, a few friends and I headed to Hilo’s black sand beaches which were awesome. A few of us learned to surf while the others just enjoyed the sun and the ...
12th day at sea...1800 nm to Samoa
another day at sea in a very large, and empty Pacific Ocean. Facts of the day, sunny 27C winds E20 kn, water depth 5300m..the Queen has travelled 3600kn from South Hampton.. today was spin, watercolor class, body scuplt, ballroom dancing, the Jive, ...
Volcanos and all they bring
Just a few years ago a part of Big Island was taken by the lava. They have different levels of risks. The more risky, the lower the prices for ...
On the "Big Island"...
another sunny and cloudy and rainy day..alternates every 15 minutes...toured lava caves, rain forest, water falls, black sand beaches then back to the ship for skyping with the kids...B/D wishes but between 6 hour time difference, work, kids sleeping and ...
Canadians are Fun!
... headed off to Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park. On the way we made the obligatory stop at a local coffee grower, the Hilo Coffee Mill in Kurtistown. This is another small, relatively new company reviving the local coffee industry. The land they ...
Learning To Breathe Under Water
This past Monday, we recognized and honored a man who once had a dream, and had the courage to make his dream come true. I don't know about you, but I think Martin Luther King not only made thousands of dreams come true throughout his lifetime, but still ...
hunger pangs
big, wooden fans circle slowly above my head. i sit here at the hilo bay hostel, just to use the internet, but loving the atmosphere. it reminds me of old time mississippi with wooden chairs, caged birds, old clocks. the silence within the cool ...
Mauna Kea
... so I went along to the Tsunami Museum. It was a beautiful old building which had managed to survive the last 2 major tsunamis that Hilo have had. Inside, I was shown a short film and the tsunamis of 1946, which was caused by a massive earthquake in Alaska ...
The Big Island
At the port of Hilo on the big island Hawaii, the youngest island, we visited the Volcanoes National Park, lots of steam vents to be seen, and the crater smoking, the lava flows have been interrupted since the earthquake off Japan. We were not ...
Big big Island
... nut farm/factory which was neat and then to the Volcano Park to see things in the day. We also checked out more of Hilo, watched a movie, went to a farmers market, and explored. Back to the Volcano at night but HUGE let down, the sight to where lava ...
Hilo and Volcano National Park
... terrific driver/tour guide native by the name of Derek. He kept us both informed and entertained. He gave us a history of Hilo, which has included several damaging Tsunamis. We left the city and headed south. Our first stop was at beautiful Rainbow ...
Hamakua Coast and Waipio Valley
... Big Island's premier scenic drive, traversing the 45 miles north of Hilo. Our first stop was at a little beach just north of Hilo which is apparently home to seals come December and January. From here we stopped at a little fruit market to sample some ...
Four Seasons to No Seasons
... nest. It’s little things like that, which make winter somewhat bearable…plus the hot chocolate. There is a proverb that states “no matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow.” No matter how much you are struggling, ...
Volcanos, Rainforest
So Yesterday we drove up along the southern coast of Hawaii and slowly made our way to the volcano, Kilauea. We made several stops along the way- two especially memorable ones. On the southern most tip of Hawaii we had to bump along ...