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Category: Oahu Neighborhoods

Downtown Honolulu – Financial District and Court Street Mall

Posted on February 27, 2019 by CD

Downtown Honolulu often gets overlooked by visitors to Oahu. It’s not surprising given that there are so many great places to visit when you come to Hawaii. Most visitors come to Waikiki and then if they are a bit adventurous they had to the North Shore, Kailua, or go to see the South shore sites…

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Manoa

Manoa Neighborhood and the University of Hawai’i

Posted on February 13, 2019 by CD

Hidden just a bit off the beaten path from most visitors is the Manoa Neighborhood which houses such treasures as Manoa Falls, the Manoa Heritage Center, Lyon Arboretum, and the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The neighborhood itself has a small shopping center which hosts a weekly farmers market as well as a handful of…

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Kaimuki

Kaimuki Neighborhood – Waikiki’s Hip Neighbor

Posted on February 6, 2019 by CD

Waikiki is an incredibly fun place, but one complaint that I’ve often heard is that it lacks ‘authenticity’. I don’t agree, because while it is indeed touristic, commericial, and manicured – Waikiki is perfectly authentic as a post 20th century urban & tropical mid-high-end tourist beach destination. There is no place more authentic than Waikiki…

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Kahala Neighborhood – Old Money, Presidents, Descendents, and CEOs

Posted on January 28, 2019 by CD

The Sony Open is being played right now (and every January) at the Waialae Country Club in the Honolulu neighborhood of Kahala on the island of Oahu in Hawaii.  It’s not just wealthy golfers who love Kahala – it’s known throughout the islands as the place where old mone, new money, and crooked money goes…

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Kaneohe

Kaneohe Town, Kaneohe Bay, and Marine Corps Base Hawaii at K-Bay

Posted on January 8, 2019 by CD

One of the prettiest places in the Hawaiian Islands – and thus anywhere in the world – is Kaneohe Bay on the Windward Side of Oahu – oppossite Honolulu. I’m sorry to tell you that you can’t experience the best parts of it unless you are in the U.S. Military in Hawaii or have base…

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The Downtown Honolulu Historic District

Posted on January 2, 2019 by CD

Starting in Chinatown and then heading towards Waikiki on King Street from Honolulu Will bring you through our financial district (just a couple of blocks, but we’re still proud of our clean and interesting downtown) and then you will suddenly find yourself with  Iolani Palace on the left and the fictional Hawaii 5-0 Headquarters on…

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Haleiwa

Haleiwa Town and the North Shore Neighborhoods of Pupukea and Waialua

Posted on December 31, 2018 by CD

One of the most delightful little villages on Oahu is the surfing town of Hale’iwa. When I say surfing town, I don’t mean the town itself surfs- that would be silly – but the town does revolve around surfing. Once a plantation village where workers lived and bought what they needed to go about their…

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Hawaii Kai

Hawaii Kai and Aina Haina Neighborhoods

Posted on December 30, 2018 by CD

South East of Honolulu are the neighborhoods of Aina Haina and Hawaii Kai. These are upscale neighborhoods that you reach when you pass by Diamond Head and the ritzy Kahala neighborhood and continue on to Koko Head and Hanauma Bay. As a guide I often pass through here, but rarely stop. There are some houses…

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Waipahu

Waipahu – Oahu – Edward Snowden’s Hometown

Posted on December 27, 2018 by CD

While it’s probably not what it wants to be known for, the town of Waipahu’s most famous resident is probably Edward Snowden, the NSA contractor who leaked large amounts of classified information from U.S. intelligence agencies. Of course, there is much more to Waipahu than just Edward Snowden. Waipahu is a central Oahu town which…

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Waimanalo Beach

Waimanalo Beach – The Most Beautiful Beach in the World (and in Hawaii)

Posted on December 17, 2018 by CD

Lanikai Beach gets all the glory, but if you ask me, the most beautiful beach in the world is just down the road in the town of Waimanalo. Waimanalo is a little cowboy town on the windward side of Oahu. Less than five thousand people, a large number of them Native Hawaiian. The name Waimanalo…

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