BIG ISLAND HAWAII, TOP 15 things to Do, Kona, Hilo, Waipio Valley, Hawaii Volcanoes NP, Akaka Falls
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- Опубліковано 5 чер 2024
- I'm excited to share with you one of my favorite Hawaiian islands The BIG Island! Over the years, I've been to most (5) of the Hawaiian Islands one of my favorites is definitely the Big Island. On this last trip, I compiled a list of the best things to do on the Big Island. Hope you enjoy it. Please subscribe!
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if you're going to Akaka Falls, stop in an Mr Ed's Bakery on the way. the Gauva Bearclaws rock.
Man just seeing this now after getting back and not returning for another yr or 2 😭 Sounds delicious! Thanks for the tip.
Nice video!
@0:17 Waipio Valley
@1:27 Volcanoes National Park
@2:21 Akaka Falls
@3:09 Manta Ray Night Dive
@4:00 Pololu Valley
@4:37 Mauna Kea
@5:10 Green Sands Beach
@5:51 Punalu’u Black Sand
@6:20 Isaac Hale Beach Park/Pohoiki Black Sand
@6:50 Rainbow Falls
@7:20 Pu’ukohola Heiau Historic Site
@7:48 Lava Tubes
@8:24 Kona Coffee
@8:57 Lapakahi State Historical Park
@9:25 Luau
-you’re welcome! ~
I lived on the Big Island for almost 20 years. Ive been to /done all these places and many other secret spots only the locals know about. Hawaii is my spiritual home. Many beautiful memories and experiences.
Any suggestions he didn’t mention?
But now a days with youtube and everything else all these dumb fucks from everywhere are coming here and ruining the Big Island.
Thank you for being so respectful to the locals and mother nature 🙏
Hawaiian Big Island native here! If you want some good breakfast, go to Ken’s Pancake House in Hilo. It’s menú has definitely downgraded but it’s still good. If you want a snack, go to Tex’s. They make some ono malasadas.
Gonna add a few things, if youre gonna see the shores, especially the rocky ones or ones with plenty of waves, NEVER turn your back on the ocean, its something locals know, especially opihi pickers and shore fishermen, the waves can sneak up on you and take you out or slam you against reef or rocks.
If you get dragged out to sea by rip currents, dont fight it, let it take you or swim parallel to shore, youll just exhaust yourself and drown, eventually itll take you to a more calm area.
Dont leave your valuables in your car, especially in tourist areas, theres a lot of good people here but theres also crooks and crackheads here too, rental cars are easy to spot.
Dont try to be hot shit and jump off rainbow falls, youre not the first to try, and it seems like each year, at least one tourist dies, you die an idiot and no one feels bad for you. Goes for boiling pots too, dont swim in it if you dont know what youre doing.
Dont swim or drink from rivers, we have wild pigs and they can carry some disease, they crap near rivers and it gets into some streams. Idr what diseases they are but theyre serious ones.
The tap water in hilo tastes great, if youre in kona, get bottled water, it tastes like crap there.
And as others have mentioned, and very important, DONT BE AN ASSHOLE, treat others with respect, in person and on the road, be courteous, and youll likely get the same treatment. People here dont ‘’hate haoles’’, they hate how many from the mainland act, some mainland people come here with respect and get along fine all their lives living here, theres assholes from the mainland that act up and get their asses beaten and move back to the mainland and cry that hawaiians are racist. Just be respectful.
Also, fun fact: the end of water world was filmed in waipio valley
I live at kona and what you say about don’t turn your back to the ocean is true and I heard learned that the hard way, and now that it’s summer so much tourist going downtown and at the harbor that I get annoyed by them
I live in Kona and what you say about the tap water is nonsense. I've been drinking it for 50 years. It's rain water filtered by the lava rock on the way down to the "fresh water lens" that sits just above sea level. Then it's pumped up. It's about the purest cleanest water anywhere. Otherwise, good advice.
Beautiful! Mahalo for taking the time to make this video and showing off the incredible scenery from all around the island.
To all the locals out there. I understand that there’s a good amount of you who are criticizing and being disrespectful to this man for mispronouncing “Kamehameha”. Shame on you! Where is your Aloha spirit? This man already >>apologized in advance>poor pronunciation>beginning of this video
You’re a sell out! Shame on YOU! Don’t ever point fingers at locals for standing up for our language and our ways!!
@@cayenneangel that’s not aloha 🤙🏾 mahalo for the example
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Shame on you for looking down on us Hawaiians and telling us that we cannot correct the man for his mispronunciation of our language. He destroyed the greatest figurehead in our history and you are OK with that. We were once told that we could not speak our language or practice our religion and culture don’t tell us we can’t do that again.
The sad part is you don’t realize that when you change the wording or the spelling and even the pronunciation of Hawaiian words it means something totally different.
If this was your original culture you would understand that…. Mai (come here) does not mean the same as Ma’i(female menstruation)…. Hence…. Kamelamela(peaceful) doesn’t mean the same as Kamehameha(The Lonely One).
And if you moved here wanting to Hanai our ‘Aina then you need to learn how to use our simple 12 letter language.
THANK YOU for all the reminders to respect the island and locals
I live in Kona and take all my visitors to most of what you've put down as "musts". However, you forgot a big one: Pu'uhonua O Honaunau National Historical Park (Place of Refuge). I specifically take them here to let them understand the beauty of Hawaiian culture and engineering. It is a place of great beauty. I usually, if open, include the Painted Church since it's on the way down.
You've done a wonderful and respectful narration of things to do/see. Thank you for your investment in time and resources for doing this service.
I've been to this island at least 5 times and it's beautiful.
Just got back from the big island and my first trip to Hawaii it was awesome!
Of all the UA-cam videos about traveling to big island, yours is the most informative :)
So happy i found your channel. I’ve been binge watching, Great tips. Keep up the good work.
Thank you so much for this amazing information about our favorite island. At 76 and 77, my hubby and I wouldn't be able to experience all of these wonderful scenes, ourselves, on the Big Island. So this video was truly magical. God bless you for your gift of sharing. God bless Hawaii. Love from Arizona.
Thank you for your support! I hope to take you on many more adventures with me 😊
Mahalo nui loa for your respect of our island. I haven’t even done some of these things my self.
Great video! Very informative and well done. Thank you!
Having been born and raised in Hilo I'd say this video is pretty spot on. Great job!
Thank you . You just help me build my itinerary 🥰
Wow I’m very happy excited to experience and see!!! I wanna go next year!!! Awesome 👏 video
Great video! Going to the Big Island and I now have a much better idea of what to do.
Thank you! I'm almost ready to go!!!!🤩
Don’t forget the Umauma falls and zip line...it’s so unique to see. And also horse back ride. Tour
Where is the horseback ride tour at
The horseback ride is at the Umauma falls.inquiring at the restaurant
Nice video, Josh. I reside on the Big Island. Have seen about half the places you showcased, and plan to see the others. Thanks.
Good list! The drive from Waimea to Hilo along the Hamakua Coast is beautiful. Also, make sure you check out Kealakekua Bay where Capt Cook met his demise. Great hike down to the monument and excellent snorkeling. Hapuna Beach is beautiful and so is the beach at Mauna Kea Hotel.
An excellent well made video. However, I was surprised you Didn't include The Hawaii Botanical Gardens which is truly breathtaking. We lived in Hilo for 7 years and was also surprised you didn't include the Hilo Farmers Market but the locations you did include are well worth seeing. Mahalo.
Oh thanks for the tip. I’ll be sure to visit next time I’m there!
I agree. And the view from the gardens when to get to the water and cliffs are so beautiful. I would also suggest the cafeteria area with the different food stands that is delish and fairly inexpensive near the farmer’s market. Excellent video!
Perhaps you’re referring to the Onomea Botanical Garden? not Hawaii B.G. It’s located on the Scenic Drive, turn-off Hwy 19 at Papa’ikou toward the ocean; If yu don’t want to enter the garden, just south of it there is a lovely County maintained walk off Scenic Drive that passes through the garden but doesn’t allow you in. Great view of the fallen arch, cove, walk across Alakahi stream to spit of land for picnic or just a sit and watch the waves come in. Definately a prime photo op. (I live just above the garden). Aloha.
But Hilo farmers market has never been the same for years.
They’ve been embattled with the county for the better part of 20 years with no obvious improvements which is why they have not been allowed anymore permits.
I live on the Big Island but appreciated seeing this video. Beautiful! Thank you for visiting our island.
Glad you enjoyed it. You live in a v special place
Mahalo for this respectful & thorough Hawai`i Island Tour! You did well with pronunciation & Warnings! Kealoha Nui (Much Love) 💗🙏🏾🙋🏾♀️🤙🏾
Thank you!
Currently can’t drive down Waipi’o Valley anymore, just a heads up for future tourist.
Going here in a week! I'm so excited 🤩
I live on the big island of Hawaii and been here for over 11 years from age 7 to now age 25 it's the most beautiful and peaceful place.☺️
11 plus 7 equals 18
This place is wonderful ...It brings you into it ! Try sleeping in Captain Cook Jungle
It looks good views of Hawaii, thanks for sharing.
I've been to the Big Island at least 5 times in the early 90's, such a beautiful place. Hope to visit again soon. Thanks for your post, it brought back some wonderful memories.
thank you for the tour. I am going to big island in 2 days. this is very helpful. I like your vid.
☺️ Everytime I go to the Big Island I bring my lightweight jungle survival hammock with some basic gear that fits in my backpack and go to my "secret" campground outside hilo for 4-6 days of a 10 day trip depending on weather and length of stay. It keeps me close to town and all the amenities while giving me some real seclusion... During covid most of the obscure areas are even more empty than normal and make for a very cheap vacation if you budget properly.
Is there a way to contact you directly?
The best thing about the big island is the lack of traffic. Look at those empty beaches. Heaven.
Love Big Island
I watched this video twice before our trip to the Big Island.
Aloha, 🤙🏽 you did a very nice review of our island and you were pono! Your sharing is done very respectfully and it’s okay if you mispronounced a few words as you are learning snd you are trying your best! All good as we know when you come back you will get it. It takes time🌺. I am glad others shared a few other places too. Mahalo nui!
Thanks for the kind words. I love all the comments but if I make the locals happy I’ve done my job 😀 🙏
Big island's got the most going on...."true blue lagoon", beaches with black, white, green sand. The green one's accessible by climb. Hammerhead mating season, you can snorkel to this!!
Hey Josh, great job!
Nice work!
Thanks for putting this together! We’re going there this summer and this helps.
Well done video and to the point. No blah blah blah !
Great video, thank you
Good vid bro thanks for making it a point to say -respect the locals and no drive like one crazy tourist and no take the sand stuff like that. Mahalos 🤙🏾
Great content!
Great video!
Very cool. I have the same Kauai Brewing tee shirt. Aloha....
Aloha from the Big Island
Very informative! Mahalo🌺
Wonderful tours
wow so beautiful!
Nice video!
Did you realize you did 8 and 9 out of order ?! :)
1) Waipio Valley
2) Hawaiian Volcanos NP
3) 'Akaka Falls State Park
4) Manta Ray Dive/Snorkel (Kona)
5) Pololu Valley (hike > valley floor river)
6) Manua Kea (tallest > 4wd to top, cold)
7) Papakolea Green Sand Beach
9) Punalu'u Black Sand Beach
8) Isaac Hale Beach Park & Pohoiki Black Sand Beach
10) Rainbow Falls
11) Pu'ukohola Heiau National Historic Site
12) Lava Tubes (Nahuku - Thurston Lava Tube)
13) Kona Coffee
14) Lapakahi State Historical Park
15) Luau.
I live on the island and I enjoyed your amazing video. Job well done on your scenery of the Big island Kona 👍
Thank you 😊
Mahalo! Hope to be there again - first time was in 2005
You will love prophet Bradley U-tube
My favorite coffee on the Big Island is at the Ka'u Coffee Mill. Not that far out of the way if you're going down to Ka'u where the Green Sand Beach is. Go to the coffee gift shop. They have a variety of coffee and roasts there. Their dark roasts are to die for. And for this reason I actually prefer it over the Kona coffees.
thanks for the great insight for newcomers .... MAHALO
Hawaii is insane, but we love it.
It’s the best! What’s your favorite island?
@@Active_Tours I would say the Big Island! It just has so much stuff to do, and I like the contrasts between the fancy resorts of Kona & the bohemian hippie town of Hilo. But also because, the island itself looks like some place that could never possibly exist on planet Earth. The first time I saw the lava flows, black sand beaches, etc. I was like "What the heck is this?! This might be one of the most bizarre islands I have EVER seen..."
I like Kauai too because of the lush greenery, but IMHO BI is one of those bucket list places that I think everybody needs to visit at least once just because of how unique it is. If you like unique travel destinations, oh boy, you're gonna love the Big Island.
Yes! I love the BI too. It’s massive tho so you need to spend a good amount of time there. What was your favorite spot on the island?
@@Active_Tours Tough call, but I'd have to go with probably 90% of visitors & say Volcanoes National Park (although I unfortunately didn't get to do that nighttime snorkel with manta rays).
I liked Mauna Kea too, but the tours are pretty expensive, and the altitude is no joke (I was okay, but several other people in my group were feeling faint/complaining about throbbing headaches). My recommendation would be to just go up to the Visitors Center, since that's where the public stargazing is anyway & you can safely drive there in your rental car.
Good job!
Waipio is probably not a great idea for visitors at the moment. Definitely don't be driving your rental jeep down the already busy road. If you visit the overlook try to go early or late in the day to avoid the lack of parking. Show respect, tread lightly, and be aware that this road was not designed to handle the amount of use that it currently is seeing.
Without the hassle of boating, check out Manta Ray Advocates. I was a bit disappointed we didn't have a huge blue pretty square out a few hundred yards from shore. Then we swam a few meters from shore and spent 40 unbelievable minutes swimming and watching these majestic creatures! The night of a lifetime!
Well done. I would suggest you include Lava Tree State Park if you ever expand in this
I’ll put that on my list for next time. Thanks for sharing
And Kealakekua Bay
I am going the first week of may! Looking forward to Hawaii! I respect all cultures!
I never thought Mauna Kea Was bigger than MT Everest ! Holy frap I’ve been thinking about that this past week. No wonder my head felt like it was going to explode. It’s also cold as hell it’s so cold it’s hot bring a jacket and warm fuzzy insulated boots n gloves
... last thing we need is more tourist trying to get into Waipio.
I am going to Ko;na , thank you!
Prophet Bradley U-tube!
2:13 One correction; Kilauea crater / caldera diameter is considerably larger than 3,000 feet. Halemaʻumaʻu, inside the crater, is about 3,000 feet diameter.
good video. love from dresden
I have lived on Oahu for 16 years, and have visited the Big Island a couple of times. However, I’ve never seen it the way your amazing video showed it! Great job!❤️👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾❤️
Thanks so much! I love your islands. I'll be going to Maui soon...
@@Active_Tours That’s awesome that you’ll be visiting Maui soon! Stay safe and enjoy!😊
Turtle is “Honu“ good job
Thanks for sharing godbless new suporter here
This is the best Things to Do vid for the Big Island. Thank you for uploading. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Most if not all rental car agencies don’t allow their vehicles into waipio valley. It will void your contract and they may/have charged people for going there. Most cars have gps and they do check.
Oh great tip!!! Read those contracts!
You are still correct. 4 wheel drive ONLY, not AWD, allowed in the valley and will void your contract if caught. There are guards posted at the top of the road down. Same with the road to the top of Mauna Kea.
29 years ago when first in Hawaii we saw a vehicle halfway buried in the sand stuck down at the river at the bottom. Who was Kamalamala ? I was thinking for a moment 😍 Waipio is about the most special place on big I.
beautiful
Everyone absolutely loves prophet Bradley U-tube!
I have visited Oahu. Which islnd would be good to visit for the second trip to Hawaii?
Good job on saying pu’u kohola heiau
Saved! Super excited to get to live in there for 3 months! I’ll do all of those you mentioned 😄 and lots of surfing and scuba diving!
Cool! Where’s your favorite place to dive so far?
ALOHA ‼️ #MAUI🥇 #PRIDE 💞
at kona there is Randy’s Huli Chicken and it just taste good
Just a note, if you're visiting, please respect the culture, people and nature. But overall, enjoy your visit!
Aloha~ nice video tour, can you recommend any tour company on big island for grand circle tour for local kamaainas from oahu... mahalo!
Exceptional video. Thank you!
I have a fascination with the Big Island. Part of me actually wants to move there one day haha. I need to actually visit it first, though.
Do it man lived here for 10 years now and its beautiful and I've lived maui for 8 years and big island is my favorite
Dude... im born and raised in Hawaii and you gotta listen to that feeling. This island is a very beautiful, magical place that is just on a different wave length. But its also very dangerous and has its secrets. The island will eat some people up, spit um out and leave them with nothing but if the island calls you that deeply... YOU ANSWER! 😉 it means she wants you here. Just come with an open heart, respect for the land and the people. And always listen to the locals.
Stay away
I help build the large observatory there was little to no access at the time.
That’s amazing!
I’ve done them all (except go up da mountain)
Appreciate you including to be respectful and not take lava rocks because some tourist have no respect for us. Especially now that we’re open
Thanks for your support! Much mahalo to kama'aina 🙏
Aloha! My wife and I are going to have about 7-days to visit the Big Island from around July 5th through the 11th. Would you recommend staying in one place or maybe splitting our stay between opposite sides of the island?
If you want to see everything I recommend you split your stays between opposite sides. If you’re looking to just relax I recommend you stay in one place. Hope that helps
Excellent tour!
🙏 for watching
We live in Honoka'a Town. great vid! Very informative.
Thanks for watching
Best way to see this all on a budget?
I'm Hawaiin I live on this island
ALOHA! I recommend your videos to my guests who stay at my rentals.....super informative!
Awesome! Thank you!
The language of Hawai`i..
Do your homework!
Apologizing is not acceptable bc you haven’t done your homework on pronunciation of language.. more abuse of Hawaiians.
Please !
Where’s the link for the manta rays?
Great video. Thanks for all the great info. Are there any waterfalls that you can jump off?
Not that I know of lol
Please no jumping off waterfalls. Flash floods can happen in a matter of seconds on the Big island. Go to Coconut island in Hilo or south point if you want to jump off. Careful at south point tho cause get plenty locals who fish out there.
I thought that the tropical gardens in Hilo should be near the top of the list….mahalo
I know because I’m the seventh grandson of Kamehameha 1 and my Hawaiian name is Kahoalii and I’m Native Hawaiian so I know this already
Any recommendations on where to stay?
I stayed in the Fairmont it was great but fancier then my normal digs
What night snorkel tour did you take?
I went diving with big island divers. Enjoy!
I love how this video has no dislikes ❤️
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Now it does I’m from Hawaii and it makes me mad how people dislike this.