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12 of the Best Kauai Restaurants

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Looking for a guide to the best Kauai restaurants? This list from a Hawaii local has a dozen great recommendations for you to try out during your trip to the island. While you can of course try Hawaii’s local cuisine, Kauai also has amazing food from other cuisines, from traditional Japanese food to classic all-American burgers. Which of these amazing Kauai restaurants will you choose to dine at?

Biking to Wonderful Views in Oahu

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That day in Oahu when I hiked to a waterfall, which ended not really being a waterfall, was full of great emotions. After our hike thru the Ko’olau Mountain Range and Manoa Valley, we returned to the starting point in the town of Manoa.   Next adventure: biking down a sinuously road. Our guide took us to a high area in the mountains. The area was next a rural road.  I knew we were really high because I saw the views when we were going up.  In addition, I felt how my ears were clogging due to the altitude. In there, another guide was waiting for us with bikes.  We received some instructions.  We were going to ride about 22 miles downhill. The road, because of its location among the mountains, was infrequently transited.  So, that made it perfect for us to ride without the hassle of cars passing us in a crazy manner. One guide was leading the way in a bike.  The other was driving a van behind the bikers.  The guides were communicating all the time.  If a car was spotted behind the van...

24 Local Pidgin Words You Need to Know When Visiting Hawaii

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Hawaii, as a place of diverse cultures and languages, has developed its own dialect, known as “pidgin”.  Before I left Hawaii to go to school on the “mainland” (also known as the continental U.S.), I didn’t realize how often pidgin made its way into our everyday forms of speech.  So to help you out, here is a list of 24 local pidgin words you need to know when visiting Hawaii.