Things to see and do in Honolulu Hawaii

Activities in Honolulu, Hawaii: Three minutes guidebook

The Honolulu provides exactly what you want - a glittering half moon of paint, trash and stockhound. But if you were growing up and seeing never-ending reruns of Hawaii and Hawaii Five-O, you'd be frustrated with everything else. One of the most prominent towns in the word, Honolulu is a long, narrow stretch of land with 400,000 inhabitants and a front sandy area and a phalange of dying volcanos at the back.

It is also very simple to steer (turn right on the shore, turn right on the beach) and has an elaborate string of ABC stores every 20 meters, so you are never far from a pint, a card or a T-shirt. Irrespective of how many contemporary properties are constructed behind Waikiki Beaches, it always looks fabulous.

Hug it - buy the Aloha shirts, take the SUKULLELELE LEONG and definitely rent a long board for $10-$20 an hours (the Waikiki breakers are as good as the island). For serious ness, go to the Bishop Museum (bishopmuseum.org/), where an impressive section of Hawaiian architectural style from the end of the nineteenth centuries has been remodelled to tell the history of Hawaii from when it was first pressed out of a magmatic reservation.

There' s story and artwork in the lovely Iolani Palace (iolanipalace.org/), the only imperial residence on US ground. The deep impact of China sugar cane workers on Hawaii's race mixture has its origins in gravelly Chinatown. Absolutely inconspicuous from the outside (and on an entirely normal street), inside is a room of color and the lights and stars of contemporary Hawaiian cooking.

Only a few minutes away Leonard's Bakery is selling a smooth, tough Portugese donut, which queues from 5.30 a.m. on. Diamond Head (hawaiistateparks.org) is something like Hobarts Mount Wellington, an impressive stretch of the town. An early dawn walk on the dormant vulcano, the 1 hour walk leads across the bottom of the caldera before climbing up the ridge to look over Honolulu.

A walk back to Waikiki is also fantastic and takes you past properties by the sea, where Honolulus wealthy and famed ten (million dollars) are hanging. The Pearl Harbor is the place to see the moving float monument over the USS Arizona shipwreck that was submerged on December 7, 1941. To make the monument even luckier, you should see the Kahanamoku duke sculpture on Waikiki.

He is the founder of windsurfing in the 20's and is always decorated with clean cut flower. The USS Arizona Monument is free of charge, but for a secure journey please make a reservation before your trip (recreation.gov).