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Tourist Attractions in Hawaii
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USS Arizona Memorial
The Memorial straddles the sunken hull of the battleship USS
Arizona and commemorates the December 7, 1941, Japanese attack
on Pearl Harbor. The Memorial was dedicated in 1962, and became
a National Park Service area in 1980. For information call:
(808)422-2771
Honolulu Zoo
The Karibuni Reserve
Trek through the african Savanna where you become a part of the
animals' habitat. Visit lions at Elsa's Pool, view giraffes from
Mandela Bridge or sit inside the Manyara Bird Sanctuary.
Tropical Forest
Our zoo is a botanical park filled with beautiful flowering
plants, trees and gardens. Stroll along the Toucan Trail and
visit birds and animals from the tropical americas. Visit
hundreds of exotic birds and reptiles from tropical forests
around the world.
a Unique Experience
Mari and Vaigai, our asian elephants meet the public, with an up
close and personal encounter daily, under a big banyan tree.
Meet a monitor lizard, pet a llama or a pot-bellied pig in the
Children's Zoo.
For information call: (808)971-7171
Hawaiian Waters adventure Park
Hawaiian Waters adventure Park is 25-acres of safe, clean family
fun and excitement. Located 30 minutes west of Waikiki. It's
Hawaii's only waterpark. For information call: (808)WILD-WaVe
Maui Ocean Center
The ocean around the Hawaiian Islands is unique and beautiful,
combining volcanic origins and a tropical marine environment,
which contains spectacular corals, exotic endemic fish,
tremendous pelagic sea life, humpback whales, and other marine
mammals. The Maui Ocean Center is a state-of-the-art aquarium
that brings this intriguing underwater world within easy reach
of Maui's visitors and residents. Visitors to the Maui Ocean
Center enjoy a combination of indoor and outdoor displays with
emphasis on exploring and discovering the ocean and its
complexity. The Maui Ocean Center integrates the intricacies of
marine life with the gentle balance of the ocean and features
the special flavor of the Hawaiian culture and its age-old link
to the sea. Come along on a discovery journey - an experiential
adventure in which you descend from black lava shorelines and
white sandy beaches, underwater past colorful corals and unique
fish, through lava tubes and sea caves, and deep into the open
ocean. The Maui Ocean Center is located at Ma'alaea Harbor
Village overlooking Ma'alaea Small Boat Harbor on the southwest
shore of Maui. The site's near-shore location lends a
superlative visual setting to the aquarium experience. The
Center's open-air design and lush tropical landscaping, complete
with outdoor water displays, enhance the natural beauty of the
site. For information call: (808)270-7000
Polynesian Cultural Center
The Polynesian Cultural Center, on Oahu's northeast shore at
Laie, was founded by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints in 1963 to allow students at the Church's nearby college
(now named BYU-Hawaii) to keep alive and share their island
heritage with visitors while working their way through school.
The Center's student employees come from an area that covers
approximately 15 million square miles of the world's largest
ocean -- the Pacific. The Polynesian islands are set in a rough
triangle ranging from Hawaii at the northern apex to Easter
Island in the southeast and New Zealand in the southwest. Seven
of these island nations are represented at the Polynesian
Cultural Center. For information call: (800)367-7060
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