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Arrive at Kona International Airport where you will be greeted with Traditional Flower Lei. Luggage will be collected and you will depart for your hotel.
The Hotel has inside corridors with girls and boys on separate floors chaperones intermingled between. Key packets will be ready upon your arrival and porters will deliver luggage. |
| 6:00 PM |
| Tonight you will have a Poolside Pizza Party with your local Tour Director. This will include an informative briefing to go over hotel rules, local area shopping and safety. |
| 8:00 PM |
| After dinner you will be treated to a hands-on Astronomy Workshop where you will be given descriptions of stars, planets, and constellations. All while viewing them through an 18 inch-telescope with running commentary throughout the presentation. |
| 10:00 PM |
| Lights Out. |
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| 7:00 AM |
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Rise and shine it's Hawaiian Time.
Breakfast is at your leisure. |
| 12:30 PM |
| Depart for Keauhou Bay where you'll board a Snorkel Cruise to Historic Kealakekua Bay where Hawaii was first discovered by Captain Cook in 1777. You'll explore lava tubes, see sea turtles, spinner dolphins and maybe even a humpback whale or two. On board and you have use of snorkel equipment, water toys, floating trampoline, water slide and dive platform. |
| 6:00 PM |
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Return to your hotel. |
| 7:30 PM |
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I’m sure everyone has seen the movie Forest Gump and tonight we're going to “RUN WITH FOREST” at the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company for dinner. |
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| 4:30 AM |
| Rise and shine it's Hawaiian Time. |
| 5:00 AM |
| You will depart for Hawaii Volcanoes National Park with a stop for a Continental Breakfast at Punalu'u Black Sand Beach. You will be able to explore the volcanic reef and see Gigantic Green Sea Turtles as you enjoy breakfast. |
| 8:00 AM |
| Arriving at Volcanoes National Park, you will head directly to the Thurston Lava Tube (Don't forget your flashlight) in the middle of a tropical rain forest where you will actually walk through this 300ft. cavern where lava flowed thousands of years ago. You will use your flash light to go even deeper where the light disappears to explore the sounds of this amazing cavern. |
| 10:00 AM |
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It’s now time to see the “Wonders of Nature”! This is where you will have the experience very few people can only imagine. You will travel 26 miles to the end of Chain of Craters Road and walk approximately a mile to red-hot lava (if it’s flowing) flowing into the vast Pacific Ocean. It truly is an amazing site!
You can now sit back and eat your Deli Style Lunch as you watch the steam plum rise into the atmosphere. |
| 1:00 PM |
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Returning back on Chain of Creators Road, you will visit a Baron Field of Cinder to look for Pele's Tears, Pele's Hair and Pumice. You will learn how each of these is created from the volcano and discuss the two types of lava found in Hawaii. |
| 2:30 PM |
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Arriving back at Kilauea Caldera, you will visit Steam Vents where moist air will warm your face, tour the Jagger Museum where you can watch seismographs record earthquakes right under your feet and walk to the edge of Halemaumau Crater to look down and across this massive opening in the earth. |
| 3:30 PM |
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Depart the park for beautiful scenic coastal vistas driving through Onamea Bay and then on to stroll through a tropical rain forest at Akaka Falls which is one of Hawaii's highest waterfalls at over 400 feet. |
| 4:30 PM |
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Depart for Kona while learning about Parker Ranch which is the Largest Privately owned Cattle Ranch in the US. You will also make a stop to get a piping hot cream filled Malasada at Tex Drive Inn. |
| 7:30 PM |
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Arrive back at your hotel.
Dinner and the evening are on your own. |
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| TBA |
| Rise and shine it's Hawaiian Time.
Breakfast is at your leisure. |
| TBA |
| Depart for Kona International Airport for a short flight to Hawaii's largest city, Honolulu. |
| TBA |
| Arrive in the big city and depart for Hawaii's most famous landmark Diamond Head where you will hike to the 763ft. summit of this extinct volcano experiencing spectacular panoramic views of Oahu. |
| 11:00 AM |
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Return to your hotel, grab your swim suit and get ready for some “Fun in the Hawaiian Sun”. The afternoon is yours to take a surf lesson or just sit back in the sand on the Worlds most famous beach, “Waikiki”. |
| 4:30 PM |
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Ready to do the Hula? Tonight we are going to an Authentic Hawaiian Luau where you will be doing the hula, enjoying traditional Hawaiian foods, music, entertainment and gracious island hospitality. |
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| 7:00 AM |
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Rise and shine it's Hawaiian Time.
Breakfast is at your leisure. |
| 11:00 AM |
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Pack your overnight bag, place large luggage in storage, check out of your hotel, and depart for an Eastern Shores Island & City Tour. You will see the Beverly Hills of Hawaii, Halona Blowhole (where water can spout hundreds of feet in the air), the Pali Lookout where wind can blow so strong you can almost fly, The National Cemetery of the Pacific (Punchbowl), Washington Place (which is our Governor's Mansion), The State Capitol Building, Iolani Palace and the King Kamehameha Statue. |
| 2:00 PM |
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Arrive at Pearl Harbor and the USS Arizona Memorial. Today you will learn one of World's most valuable history lessons - how men and women gave their lives on December 7, 1941 “The Day of Infamy”. Today’s experience will make you proud to be an American and thankful for the freedoms we enjoy today.
Information on the USS Arizona Memorial’s “Witness to History” at www.pearlharbormemorial.com |
| 4:00 PM |
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Now that you have seen the cause for the United States of America entering WWII, let's go see where it ended. You are going to have the opportunity to live like a Sailor on the USS Battleship Missouri. The Mighty Mo's encampment program is an overnight experience where you will re-enact the signing of the treaty to end WWII. |
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| TBA |
| Rise and shine it's Hawaiian Time.
Breakfast is at your leisure.
Today is departure day we bid you Aloha and a Big Mahalo for visiting the islands, hope you have a safe journey home and take some of the Mana (Hawaiian Spirit) with you. |
| 9:00 AM |
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Depart for your Waikiki hotel to freshen up, pick up luggage and depart for the Honolulu International Airport. |
Day 1 - ALOHA AND WELCOME TO HAWAII
