The second island from Hawaii in extension and population was until a few years ago a solitary, heavenly and unexplored place, with desert and clean beaches. Today it is quite full of ugly buildings that conceal the local real beauty. The traffic is continuous and the Agglomerations are to the agenda. Nevertheless this is the island where more facility is to practice sports like the windsurfing, the surfing, the diving, the mountain bicycle and to observe marine mammals, like big whale with the protagonist. The biggest tourist concentration gives itself on the coast west (Lahaina or Kaanapali), For which those who want to know the real island extract will have to move to the north and the East (Haiku or Kula). Hana Highway,

The first inhabitants of the archipelago were Polynesians who came from the Islands Marchioness in the Vth century. About the year 1000 there arrived Tahitians, who introduced his social order, religion and customs. The first western one in treading on these islands was the British captain James Cook, who arrived in 1778 at the Sandwich Islands, as it baptized them. Although at first it was seen like Logo, the god of fertility, there soon arose clashes that were paid by the Cook death.

Up to the arrival of Cook Possessing his own king was every island, until Kamehameha, king of Oahu, unified the archipelago under only one I am in charge. This only king began to treat with the interested American merchants in the sandalwood wood, with the whalers, that they were using the islands like scale, and with the missionaries who came to evangelize population already decimated by the venereal diseases brought by the sailors.

At the end of the XIXth century the sugar-cane turned into the big industry of Hawaii, and the proprietors of the plantations began to bring Chinese, Japanese and Koreans to be employed at them and to intervene in the matters of the islands, what was paid by the Overthrow in 1893 of Liliuokalani, last queen from Hawaii, and the annexation to the USA.

Soon, Hawaii turned into a strategic place inside the trade routes and military importance. The base of Pearl Harbor in Oahu, was giving control to the USA on the Pacific Ocean. The Japanese attack to this military base on December 7 of 1941provocó that the USA was deciding to take part in the Second World War.

As soon as the war was finished, the population from Hawaii Demanded the recognition as the state, Which Came in 1959. This way, Hawaii turned into 50 and the last state of the USA.

Placed in the North Pacific Ocean, to 2.000 kilometers of the Californian coast, this paradisiac volcanic archipelago owes his origin to the big variety of geologic phenomena they happen in the islands, Providing them with a geographical configuration provides that in few big sceneries surface diversity. The crystalline beaches, the most green meadows, the most steep peaks, the smoky volcanoes and the most exotic species happen in this state.

Of eight islands, the most inhabited is the kidling Oahu, where there is cardinal Honolulu and the famous beach of Waikiki, Which absorbs big part of the tourist flow. The biggest island, called The Big Island or Hawaii, only with active volcanoes, attracts Maui and Kauai along with the rest of the tourism, leaving Molokai, Niihau Kahoolowe and quite calm.

The inhabitant of Hawaii is first of all a beautiful human being, spiritually nearby and warmly. This is to know of hotel trade and tourism: to give well-being is something that is not paid not even with tips.

Also, the geographical delight of the islands, there Which shape the State number 50 of the United States and the Infrastructure of serviceability that has developed for the tourist, are reasons of weight enough to want to go even there. There is greatly to see and to enjoy in Hawaii.

Oahu is one of four biggest islands that shape the State, together with Kauai, Maui and Hawaii, the last one, curiously, is the one that names the archipelago and the biggest, most visited Although the not.

Despite his distance, who has not heard of this luck of Miami in the Pacific Ocean, after the television series Hawaii 5-0 (that it was not a question of soccer, but of police officers); of Gilligan's Island; of Magnum , Which Tom Selleck led: of Jurassic Park, of Steven Spielberg, and of Aquatic World, with Kevin Costner.

Who will not have listened to speak about the hula-hula, hula Which originally calls, and beautiful bronze-colored Asiatics and dance it to the rhythm of a small instrument of sweet name, like them: ukulele, a toy four species of Plainsman.

In his beaches they were seen the first bikini in 1953 and from them the Practice of the surfing spread to the entire world.