Tourism in Oahu
The many popular beaches attract tourists all over the world (mainly Japan), mainly the beach of Waikiki, also known as the “metropolis of the South Seas”, behind which the extinct volcano Diamond Head and Punchbowl collect. Waikiki alone has 38,000 hotel rooms.
Also noteworthy is the Hanauma Bay and its variety of fish species.
Honolulu means “sheltered bay and has 370,000 inhabitants. The metropolis recalls with their skyscrapers in the big cities of the U.S. mainland.
In the city centre can be found at King Street and Bere Tania Street at its junction with the Punchbowl Street most of the historically and politically interesting buildings.
The Aloha Tower since 1921 is the landmark for the port of Honolulu. This offers a good view of the port itself and Honolulu
Many museums testify to the skill and culture of the islanders. In Kahala, east of Waikiki, is the former residence of Doris Duke. The Shangri La-called property houses a rich collection of Islamic art.
Waikiki, the most beautiful beach hawaiischen the islands. Unfortunately, the very beach construction and so only a very narrow sandy beach remained.
The beaches on the west coast around the world Pupukea offer the best conditions for surfing, here are the main competitions.
Pearl Harbor’s submarine base, naval base and military high command of the Americans for the entire Pacific. Not far from the port of Honolulu is a maritime museum with exhibits from many of the culture of Hawaii’s population and seafaring. Sad fame was the place by the Japanese attack on the Americans stationed there on 7 December 1941. The U.S. then came the Second World War.
To commemorate the attack and the victims was 1962 on the sunken battleship the USS Arizona Memorial was built. In the 56-meter-long monument are the names of victims engraved, which buried here.
Haleiwa on the north coast is a meeting point of the surfers who often risk their lives in Haleiwa Alii Beach Park and on the beaches east or north-east of the town, the famous North Shore beaches, the high winter waves riding. Some of the most famous surfing beaches on the North Shore, “Sunset Beach”, “Himalaya’s,” “Holton’s,” “Rocky Point”, “Alligator Rock” and of course the “Banzai Pipeline” at the “Ehukai Beach Park.
The Waimea Falls Park, a botanical garden in Waimea Valley Stream, does O ‘ ahu from his best.
Layman on the northwest coast is embedded in a green tropical plantation landscape. Here is a mormonische church.
The Polynesian Cultural Center is probably the most popular among tourists trip Hawaii culture is. In an open-air museum mini-villages of seven South Pacific regions have been copied: Tonga, Tahiti, the Marquesas Islands, Hawaii, Fiji, Samoa and New Zealand. Here, traditional culture and crafts fully presented.
In sight of the east coast of Oahus are numerous small islands to the bird sanctuary Hawaii State Seabird Sanctuary, not only under conditions or enter them.
