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Take a Scenic Drive With Us Through Historic South Kona on the Big Island of Hawaii
On this trip through South Kona we will be start by traveling South on Highway 19, also called Mamalahoa Highway. Once you have passed Kailua-Kona, you are officially in South Kona.
The video begins in the town, Kealakekua. In this town you will find numerous coffee farms to stop at to try coffee and tour the farm. Some farms are free and some charge an entrance fee. Two of our favorites is Greenwell Farms and Kona Joe's Coffee.
Also in Kealakekua are many antique shops. Keep an eye out for them. They are all on Mamalahoa Highway.
Once you see the Kealakekua Ranch Center on your left, there will be a large fruit stand on your right. Stop here for fresh, local produce.
Between mile marker 108 and 105 you will pass more coffee farms, the Coffee Shack, a great place to stop for breakfast with a beautiful view of the coast and Super J's, the best Hawaiian food on the island.
At mile marker 104, you make a right onto route 160. This beautiful, scenic road will take you to Pu'uhonua OHonaunau Historic National Park. Stop here for the ranger talk and learn about Hawaiian culture. This park is a great place to sit and relax, learn about Hawaii's history and watch the sunset. This is a historic park, so there is no swimming.
Once you leave the park, make a left at the 2nd street after the park exit to go to Honaunau Bay. On the left you will see an area where most peopel are entering the water, this is called Lae Kele. Sometimes referred to as Two Step it was ranked one of the top 10 snorkeling spots in the world and one of the best in Hawaii. Please be warned, the water is deep here. Only go in if you are a strong swimmer. This is also not a state or national park. There are no showers, life guards, places to rent snorkels or flush toilets, just port a potties. There is no food stand place to purchase water. There are some picnic tables and very little shade. Although many people refer to this area as Two Step, please try to use the Hawaiian name for this magical spot. Do not enter or exit the water in locations other than these steps to avoid hurting yourself or the reef!
Once you leave Two Step, turn back onto Route 160 and go back up the way you came until you see Painted Church Road. Make a left onto this windy road. Less than a mile onto this road, on your right, will be Saint Benedict's Church, also known as the painted church. This church was painted by one priest. He only had green brown and white house paint donated by the farmers in the area. He used pigments made by local plants to create the other colors.
Once you leave the painted church, continue on Painted Church Road until you reach a dead end. Make a left onto Middle Keei Road and at the next stop sign another left onto Napoopoo Road. These roads are narrow and windy, but have very little traffic. Drive slow and enjoy the scenery. It is polite to pull over to allow people to pass. Many people live on these roads and may want to drive faster.
Less than one mile down Napoopoo Road, you will see a sign on your right for Big Island Bees. Turn right at the next road to stop at the country's largest organic honey farm. They give beekeeping tours three times a day (we recommend signing up in advance) or you can stop in to sample their honeys and browse their free bee museum and honey store anytime.
Once you leave Big Island Bees, make a right onto Napoopoo Road to continue down toward the ocean. Once you hit the dead end, make another right and park in the lot. This bay is where Captain Cook first landed and where he was killed. You can see his monument on the opposite side. The beach is rocky, making it not an ideal swimming spot.
For a nice place to swim, Make a U-turn in the parking lot and go straight less than one mile (this road is called Pu'uhonua). Turn right onto Manini Beach Road. Follow this road until you see a parking lot. Park here and take a break at this beautiful beach in the bay. You can also snorkel here, but there is not much of a reef. This is a popular spot for people to kayak or stand up paddle board. You will often see dolphins in the water in the morning.
That is the end of your South Kona trip! The fastest way back to the highway is to go back up Napoopoo Road and make a left onto the highway.
Drive slow, stop along the way and explore! There's lots of farm stands, coffee farms and other fun things to see.
Kiholo Bay - Big Island Hawaii
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Kiholo Bay is an off the beaten path hike that will take you to the famous Queens Bath, turquoise water, tide pools, black sand beach, and basking Green Sea Turtles. This area is also full of history and Hawaiian heritage. There are two different routes to the bay. The main one starts at the Kiholo Bay State Park Reserve trailhead. The alternate one starts near mile mark 81, on the side of Highway 18. In this blog, we mainly focus on the main route there.
Music:
Ikson - Wander
AL'sic - Paradise
Farm on Big Island - onemantrip
View from the Coffee Shack, Honaunau, Hawaii
This is the most beautiful view from Highway 11 on the Big Island in Honaunau that the public can enjoy at The Coffee Shack.
Hawaii - Big Island
Hawaii - Big Island
Kailua-Kona - Pu'uhonua o Honaunau - North Kohala - Waipi'o Valley - Hula - Kilauea Craters - Volcano National Park - Akaka Falls - Fresh Lava :-)
Music: Invisible Light by Josh Woodward. Free download:
Music: Birth of a Hero von Bensound:
Honaunau Labor Day
Pu'uhonau O' Honaunau labr day weekend 2014. Snorkeling in under water caves. Video made with Gopro Hero3.
Camp Aloha !
Going nuts at Camp Aloha Macadamia Nut Farm in Honaunau, Hawaii.
Big Island Hawaii 2015-16
Here is our Hawaii vacation video. My daughter Sarah and I visited the Big Island this time. We stayed on an organic farm, visited the volcano, jumped off the cliffs at South Point, went snorkeling at Two Step Beach, and kayaking in Kealakekua Bay where the Capt. Cook monument is located and where he died. We also went parasailing and saw the manata rays on a night dive. The only thing missing from this video is the pod of dolphins that visited us on the kayaking trip.
Hawaii 2018 (Big Island + O'ahu) - GoPRO HERO 5 BLACK 4K
Everything filmed in GOPRO HERO 5 BLACK 4K
Locations (Big Island):
Greenwell Farm
Pu'uhonua o Honaunau Park
Pololu Valley
Waipi'o Valley
Akaha Falls State Park
Papakolea Green Sand Beach
Onekahakaha Beach Park
Locations (O'ahu):
Ocean Sea Life Park + Luau
Waikiki Beach
Kualoa Ranch and Zipline
Hale'iwa Beach Park
Songs:
Deep Chills - Waikiki (
Deep Chills - Lighthearted (
Exploring BIG ISLAND, HAWAII in 3 DAYS! A NEW Travel Itinerary Challenge Series
In the fourth and final video part of our Hawaii Travel Itinerary Challenge series, we explore Hawaii, the Big Island, in 3 days and try our best to eat, see, and do as many things as possible based on a prepared itinerary list! Open this up to learn more and see our itinerary ↓
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If this is your first time viewing our videos, welcome and thank you! For some background about this series: in our years traveling together, we found our travel style involves cramming as many things into an itinerary as our body can handle. We plan a rough itinerary or list of things we want to do, see, and eat at our destination.
Below is the original itinerary we set out to complete. In our Itinerary Challenge Series, we will see how close we get to checking off each item on our list.
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????Preston & Krista's Original Itinerary for 3 Days in HAWAII - The Big Island
(If there is a checkmark ✅next to the attraction that means we were able to do it. We also included those completed attractions in the full actualized itinerary list too. )
1. ‘Akaka Falls
2. What’s Shakin
3. Hilo Farmer’s Market
4. Kapoho Kalapana Road (Closed as of Summer 2018)
5. Keauhou Trail
6. Halemaumau Crater
7. Hawaii Volcano National Park ✅
8. Kilauea Caldera Crater ✅
9. Punanlu’u Black Sand Beach ✅
10. Papakolea Green Sand Beach
11. Pu’uhonua o Honaunau National Historic Park
12. Captain James Cook Monument
13. Kekaka Hai State Park
14. Holuakoa Gardens & Cafe ✅
15. Barefoot Zone
16. Broke Da Mouth Grindz ✅
17. Kiholo Bay / Kiholo State Park ✅
18. Hulihe’e Palace
19. Hapuna Beach
20. Kauna’oa (Mauna Kea) Beach ✅
21. Pu’uokhola Heiau National Historic Site
22. Sweet Potato Kitchen & Bakery
23. Pololu Valley Lookout
24. Moʻokini Heiau - Birthplace of Kamekameha
25. Kohala Historical Sites State Monument
26. Statue of King Kamekameha
27. Hina Rae’s Cafe Kamuela ✅
28. Sandwich Isle Bread Company ✅
29. Waima Town Market at Parker School ✅
30. Hawaiian Style Cafe Waimea
31. Horseback Riding into Waipio Valley (Waipio On Horseback or Waipio Ridge Stables LLC)
32. Waipio Valley Lookout ✅
33. Mauna Kea
34. Lake Waiau
35. Very Long Baseline Array
????Preston & Krista's Actualized Itinerary for 3 DAYS in HAWAII - The Big Island
1.Sweet Cane Cafe -- Hilo
2. Kilauea Center -- Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park
3. Sulphur Banks Trail to Kilauea Caldera-- Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park
4. Sulphur Banks (Ha’akulamanu) -- Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park
5. Kilauea Caldera / Steaming Bluff Lookout -- Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park
6. Punalu’u Black Sand Beach -- Pahala*
7. Aloha Kona Urgent Care -- Kailua-Kona
8. Broke Da Mouth Grindz - Kailua-Kona
9. Waimea Town Market at the Parker School -- Waimea
10. Waipi’o Valley Lookout -- Honokaa
11. Waipi’o Valley Black Sand Beach -- Honokaa
12. Kauno’oa (Mauna Kea) Beach -- Kohala Coast
13. Holoholokai Beach Park -- Puako
14. Puako Petroglyph Preserve -- Puako
15. Under the Bodhi Tree -- Kamuela
16. Manta Rays on the Bay @ Sheraton Kona Resort -- Keauhou Bay
17. Hawaiian Queen Coffee Farm Tour --- Holualoa
18. Holuakoa Gardens & Cafe -- Holualoa
19. Mauna Kea Visitor Information Station -- Mauna Kea
20. Kipuka Pu’u Huluhulu (Hairy Hill) -- Saddle Road Hwy. 200 - Mile Marker #28
21. Hilton Monorail - Waikoloa Village
22. Kiholo State Park Reserve -- greater Kailua-Kona
*We incorrectly listed the location of Punalu’u Black Sand Beach as Nīnole. Thank you to Tylah808 for bringing that to our attention. The correct location is Pahala.
**Thanks to viewer Robert Whitaker for the following corrections regarding locations. Waipi'o Valley lookout is in Waip'io, not Honoka'a (we used it as the nearest town as a point of geographic reference). Kiholo State Park is not in Kamuela, but in greater Kailua-Kona area. Punalu’u Black Sand Beach is not in Ninole, but Pahala*
***Apologies for the misspelling of Kamekameha.
????We recommend downloading The GyPSy Audio Guide if you end up driving around the island (
????Due to the volcanic eruptions on May 2018, check for Hawaii Volcanoes National Park attractions statuses and closures
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????It was helpful to know the status of Parks & Beaches in Hawaii we intended to visit so check out the Hawaii Division of State Parks website.
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⚠️For Waip’io Valley and Mauna Kea Summit road trips make sure to check your rental car agreements. If you do drive down to the Valley or up to the Summit cars with 4X4 are encouraged.
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Hawaii Island Climate Zones graphic adapted from GoHawaii.com via source:
Original Koppen Classification System, Hawaii Magazine, May/June 2015.
Big Island of Hawaii - erupting volcano near Hilo via helicopter
From a Blue Hawaii helicopter, we saw the light eruptions starting to happen in June of 2011... very cool
Coffee and Macademia Nut Plantation - Big Island
A visit to the UCC Coffee Plantation near Kona on the Island of Hawaii
15 Top-Rated Tourist Attractions on the Big Island of Hawaii 2019
1. Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
2. Waipio Valley and Overlook
3. Mauna Kea
4. Kona Coffee Living History Farm
5. Pu'uhonua o Honaunau National Historical Park (Kona Coast)
6. Akaka Falls State Park and Kahuna Falls
7. Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden
8. Hapuna Beach State Park
9. Waikoloa Beach Resort and Petroglyph Park
10. Ahu'ena Heiau
11. Kailua Kona and Magic Sands Beach
12. Hilo Farmers Market
13. Kealakekua Bay State Historical Park
14. Parker Ranch (Kona Coast)
15. Kua Bay
Big Island, Hawaii: South Kona Coast
South of Kailua Kona the lansdcape becomes greener and the skies cloudier. This is the area of the famous Kona coffee. From the road there are beautiful view of the coffee farms and the sea. There several towns along the highway, in the typical laid-back hawaiian style. The main points of interest in south Koala are Kealakekua Bay (where Captain Cook landed and was killed), St Benedict´s Painted Church and Pu'uhonua o Honaunau National Historic Park. This Park faces Honaunau Bay and it is the site of an antique palace of the hawaiian kings and also a place of refuge for breakers of the kapu (taboo).
Honaunau Bay, snorkeling paradise, Kona, Hawaii, father & sons, Yeh
Honaunau Bay, snorkeling paradise, Kona, Hawaii, father & sons, Yeh
Boyz Unite
Kalaoa & South Side Boys doing what they do best!
Back to the Coffee Shack!
First morning in Kona and we had to hit the Coffee Shack. Great food and an amazing view.
City Of Refuge
Experience ancient Hawaii by air as you soar over Puuhonua O Honaunau National Historical Park in South Kona, one of the most prominent sites in Hawaiian history. Plan your air adventure at paradisecopters.com.
Ki'ilae fishing village by the coast of Kona
I did a 3 hours walk today from Honaunau picnic area to the trail 1871. The rugged lava shoreline of the South Kona coast beckons you to explore the backcountry trails of the park. Have you ever imagined visiting a historic abandoned Hawaiian village? COme and experience this special and unique area. Step back in time. The ocean will whisper ancient stories from the past as you pass by places used by people of long ago. It was a very special walk. One of the few places on the island where you can walk and see not a single soul and feel the clarity of the pure nature all around you. If you are sensitive enough you can spot energyvortexes and heiaus on your way around. Thank you Big Island for having these places, so that I can explore them and through these places also myself and my inner fortunes!