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The Waikīkī Trail
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Morning
Don’t waste your time wandering around with a map on your first day in Waikīkī. Instead, take the highly regarded free tour along the Waikīkī Historic Trail, led by members of the Native Hawaiian Hospitality Association, who will introduce you to sites of importance to the host culture. The tour starts at 9am on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. The meeting point is by the waterfall at Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center (call 737 6442 for more details).
The trail was the brainchild of the late visionary George S. Kanahele, a pioneer of cultural tourism. It’s marked by a series of sculpted surfboards imprinted with photographs, maps, and information at 23 locations around the neighborhood.
Stopping points include a former residence of Queen Lili’uokalani; the villa of Chun Afong, who was Hawai’i’s first Chinese millionaire; the vast coconut grove of Helumoa; and a war camp of Kamehameha the Great.
Late Morning
The tour lasts about an hour-and-a-half, after which you have plenty of time to stroll some more or do some shopping.
Stop for lunch at the Hau Tree Lanai at the east end of Waikīkī. Here you can sit right where Robert Louis Stevenson did in 1893 as he penned stories about the South Pacific.
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