Honolulu, Hawaii #063

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On our first tour, we enjoyed the fabulous flea market to buy our first souvenirs, walk for a few hours after our long trip sitting on the plane!

Open on Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays, the Aloha Stadium Swap Meet is bargain central for inexpensive souvenirs and Hawaiian shirts. We enjoyed the fresh coconuts to keep us hydrated while we shopped.

The products at the market included jewelry, fresh produce, clothes, purses, candy, prepared foods, shoes, and just about any Hawaiian souvenir you might want. We arrived by bus. 

Booths are lined on both sides with corridor in middle. It was very warm and lots of shopping. A fun experience and we were all tired after all the walking around for several hours.  

With the great affordable prices, we stacked up on lots of souvenirs for ourselves and family gifts!

Amazing variety and good deals!

This is an awesome market to find just about anything you could want/need. From fresh pineapple to souvenirs, it's all here. 

Hundreds of vendors and friendly faces everywhere. Everything is a good price but vendors would sometimes negotiate prices.  We watched them create items while we walked around.  Lots of pictures and videos of all these wonderful sites - on our 30-minute download...

Here's a few pictures - a little bit of everything going on!

Aloha Stadium is in Halawa, Hawaii, a western suburb of Honolulu, located in Central Oahu.  It is the largest stadium in the state of Hawaii and is home to the University of Hawaiʻi Rainbow Warriors football team. 

Aloha Stadium is Hawaii’s largest outdoor arena and home to the University of Hawaii Rainbow Warriors football team. 

In addition, hosts a multitude of events attracting visitors from around the State including soccer matches, concerts, car shows, fairs and the ever popular Aloha Stadium Swap Meet & Marketplace that we all enjoyed on our first day out.

Amenities-packed oceanfront retreat offering luxury rooms & suites, dining & dolphin encounters.  They had live dolphins swimming arounds and ladies working with them.

Afternoon Tea time at no better place in Hawaii.  Sit in the cool shade and watch the dolphins and people in the pool.  The 3 tiers of delight is heavenly and matches well with the delicious tea.  

We enjoyed this property located in the Kahala Hotel just past Diamond Head.

There was so much to take in - all the beauty of the flowers along the walls, the ladies in the water with the dolphins and the cascade of waterfalls in the distance and it's a popular place for weddings!  Lots and lots of pictures!

Hanauma is a marine embayment formed within a tuff ring and located along the southeast coast of the Island of Oʻahu in the Hawaii Kai neighborhood of East Honolulu, in the Hawaiian Islands. 

Hanauma is one of the most popular tourist destinations on the Island.  Hanauma Bay is a protected waterway and is relatively calm outside the reef line. Regardless of your ability, Hanauma Bay will deliver. 

Everywhere you travel you can find the popular chickens.  The beautiful turtle painted on the water tower...

From this lookout, we could see ocean water shoot 30 feet into the air from a lava tube.  It was a nice coastal lookout area, but nonetheless a great stop for the coastal view and access to a small cove beach.

The Halona Blowhole Lookout is one of the most spectacular overlooks on the East Coast and Halona Cove can easily be seen from this site, as well as a large portion of the East Coast Cliffs.  Very beautiful!!!  

Took videos and lots of pictures!  Here's some below...

Originally operated as a fruit stand beginning in 1950, Dole Plantation opened to the public as Hawaii’s “Pineapple Experience” in 1989. 

Today, Dole Plantation is one of Oahu’s most popular visitor attractions and welcomes more than one million visitors a year. 

There's a lot to take in; the train ride, the wonderful-tasting DoleWhip, the Plantation Garden Tour and huge store for SHOPPING!

Dole Plantation provides enjoyable activities for the entire family, including the Pineapple Express Train Tour, the Plantation Garden Tour, and the Pineapple Garden Maze. 

Also popular are informational displays and presentations, as well as our plantation country store offering a wide variety of Dole Plantation gifts, local favorites, foods and refreshments including the world-famous DoleWhip. 

Our tour continued to Nu'uanu Pali Lookout State Park - a beautiful overlook and then back to our beautiful hotel with plenty of photos to show the surroundings from a bird's-eye view of the beach and sunset!  What a wonderful view!!!

Voted the best luau in Oahu, your night at Paradise Cove begins with a  beautiful flower lai  put around your neck by a beautiful Hawaiian young lady, a tropical Mai Tai greeting and traditional Hawaiian music to set the festive mood. You’ll then learn more about Hawaiian culture with arts and crafts, games, fishing demonstrations and even the delightful shower of flowers. Not to be missed.

And of course, you’ll want to bring your appetite to enjoy the Paradise Cove Luau menu, which tastefully blends the best of traditional Hawaiian dishes, local favorites, and continental cuisine set out on a huge buffet.

With the Hawaiian sunset as a backdrop, performers entertained us with an unforgettable display of songs and dances of Hawaii and Polynesian culture.

Our evening to the Paradise Cove including a wonderful luau with roasted pig, lots of food - then we videoed the beautiful dancers, singers and fire twirlers!  It was a spectacular evening and a great way to start our tour - I took a bunch of pictures and videoed the beautiful hula dancers, the fire twirlers along with actors who were part of the show.  All of this on our 30-minute download you can buy for only $12.00.

Along with a beautiful sunset!  It was a spectacular evening - one we won't forget!!!