Honolulu is not only the tropical paradise seen in many American television, with wide beaches, palm trees and beaten by the wind mild climate. Since it is the only U.S. city located in the Tropics, the only one that hosts a royal palace and can boast a balanced combination of Western influences, Asian and Polynesian, Honolulu offers visitors a variety of multicultural interest. You will be disappointed if the only purpose of your trip will be to escape from the crowds of everyday life, since Honolulu is one of the most visited places in the world, but with a little 'constancy and a well-designed itinerary, you will have ample room for movement. The valleys above the

 

city are occupied by luxuriant nature reserves and cross paths, often deserted. About an hour's drive from the capital are opening small and quiet bays where swimming or snorkeling, relaxing gardens and towns so small and quiet that you forget the noise of beaches. Other interesting places of Oahu Hanauma Bay in the south-east of the island, is a sheltered bay and clear water and the color of sapphire inside of fierce volcanic formation. For its beautiful corals and fish is the ideal place for snorkelling enthusiasts, even if the environment suffers because of too many tourists who come here to observe and feed the fish. The Nuuanu Pali Lookout, the top 360 spot me in the chain Koolau South, is an extraordinary vantage point looking toward the leeward coast. This is the place where, in 1795, Kamehameha the Great defeated the warriors of Oahu occupying the island. The most visited of the island is the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, north-west of Honolulu, where every year about one and a half million tourists went to see the details to the attack by the Japanese surprise attack on 7 December 1941, and to pay tribute to fallen American soldiers in 2335.