Hilo Vacations, Hilo Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

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 to grow (it is actually bigger than all the other islands combined).  There are many facets to the Big Island : Kona is a tourist mecca; you can see snow in Hawaii by visiting the splendid M...

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.

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.

 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.  Saw a lot of trees but the processing plant was closed .The plant did have a store that was open so we went in and bought some at a very good(at least that is what Ann told me) so we were glad we s...