Hilo Hostels - Reviews and Rates

as long as i can remember i loved taking pictures. i used to sneak around my house with my camera, pretending to be a detective, and take pictures of my parents in the kitchen or my sister playing with her toys. they never saw me comin... i graduated with a photography minor from st joe's. the art department was a really amazing place. there was...

For the last month now we've been living right on Hilo Bay, listening to the sound of waves and watching for breaching whales out our window. We see them almost every day. Our studio (~500 sq ft) is a five minute walk from downtown (6 minutes to the Post Office, 9 minutes to the grocery stores, 10 minutes to the Farmer's Market); it truly is the...

We traveled to Hilo and it took almost 5 days. We had a wonderful trip.

This morning I got up nice and early and decided to put some washing on. As I headed over towards the machines, I saw the final of Euro 2008 was on. It couldn't have been good as I heard lots of 'scheisse's' being uttered! I bumped into Greg and had a brief chat, then decided to head down the road to find some brekkie. My god, it was sweltering ...

Hawaii Volcanoes National Park - Chain of Craters Road (posted from Victoria, BC on March 27,2008) After three hours of exploring the 17 kilometer Crater Rim Drive which encircles Kilauea Volcano, we headed south to check out the Chain of Craters Road. It is a 9 kilometer route which descends 4,000 feet in altitude to near sea level. In my previ...

We caught the plane to Hilo which is a small, sleepy town on the East Cost of Hawaii's Big Island. This island is the most recently formed and is indeed still being added to by the volcano. It is also Hawaii's biggest, comprising of several times the area of all the other islands combined. Our first adventure was up to Volcanoes National Park wh...