Hilo Travel Blogs

I’m cheating a bit because the itinerary we’ve been following is from our last trip in 2005.  This was the first time we didn’t get over to Hawaii, “the Big Island” – so named because as all of the other Hawaiian Islands are eroding away into never-never land, Hawaii continues …

On this trip to the Big Island, I stayed on the Hilo side. I took an early flight from Honolulu to Kona and planned to return to Honolulu in the early afternoon. I needed to pick up something in Hilo so I decided to spend part of the day driving around and taking in the sights. I was browsing t…

Not a bad flight into Hilo airport, via Honolulu. Seems like I can now easily deal with five hour flights not being able to sleep.Taxi driver from Hilo airport was interesting and offered me his services as a guide to the island, not that I took him up on the offer. As it was night time when I arri…

Trying out my resorts membership

I spent three months in Hawaii while I "lived" there. Hawaii was my home while I travelled in South East Asia. My sister lives there.

A visit to Oahu and the Big Island of Hawaii

Hilo is awsome it rains alot but its alot of fun to poke around and find some awsome views. The hot ponds are amaizing just to sit and and watch the stars..iv'e never seen so many stars as I did in hilo and all the stars were uspside down which seemed crazy to me. The frogs chirp too..its annoying at first but later you find it is such a soothing sound.

A little adventure on the Big Island...

 We pretty much saw what we wanted to see in the Volcano NP and since Hilo was just about a half hour drive we decided to go check it out plus ck out some waterfalls.   On the outskirts of Hilo we saw a Macadamian nut farm and processing plant that said tours on it so we pulled in. …

Vacation back home to Hawaii

6:30 amI woke up quite early this morning, so I decided to head down to the famous Hilo Farmer’s Market before it became too crowded, which I later learned is almost impossible. I arrived around 7:30 am and began my forage. This market was so unbelievable! At first glance, I was honestly unimp…

Princess cruise to Hawaii

Okay... now ALL of the New Zealand pix have been uploaded and captioned.  It took awhile, but check all of last week now.We're currently in Kahului on Maui, ready for our last day of vacation.  We spent the whole day on the Big Island, though, at Volcanos National Park.  We'll soon a…

Kris and I spent a week on the big island and went to Keck Observatory, the volcano park, and dig some scuba diving.

Solo trip. 2nd visit to Honolulu august 4th, 2009- august 8th, 2009