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Hawaii-wide guide

How to Choose Reef-Safe Sunscreen

Pack smarter for Hawaii with clear sunscreen guidance, reef-conscious tips, and practical sun protection advice for beach days across the islands.

Hawaii-wide guide

How the Hawaiian Islands Were Formed

The Hawaiian Islands are the visible peaks of a vast volcanic chain. Here is the surprisingly simple process that built them—and keeps building them today.

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Shaka (Hang Loose): Meaning, Origins, & Usage

The shaka is one of those small Hawaiʻi details visitors notice immediately: thumb and pinky out, three middle fingers curled, a quick lift of the hand. You’ll see it from a driver who let someone merge, from a...

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The Hawaiian Value of Kuleana

In Hawaiʻi, kuleana is often translated as “responsibility.” That is true, but a little thin.

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Kānaka Maoli: Meaning, Identity, and History

That simple sentence changes how you hear the language on airport signs, how you understand hula at a hotel lūʻau, and how you read the names of valleys, winds, rains, reefs, and chiefs across the islands. It also...

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Musubi

Musubi is one of the great small pleasures of traveling in Hawaiʻi: tidy, filling, inexpensive by island standards, and easy to eat with one hand while you’re standing in a parking lot deciding whether to go beach,...

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Luau Food Guide

A good lūʻau meal makes more sense when you stop treating it like a buffet and start reading it as a plate of relationships: land and sea, old cooking methods and newer island flavors, celebration and hospitality,...

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Food Trucks in Hawaii

Food trucks in Hawaiʻi are not a novelty act. They are often where you get the most satisfying vacation meal of the day: hot garlic shrimp on a paper plate, chile-crisp noodles after the beach, a taro doughnut with...