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LYMAN MISSION HOUSE & NAHA STONE 14 year-old King
MUSEUM Missionaries from New Kamehameha moved this 2.5-ton stone,
England came in 1832 and built this house and later fulfilled the destiny of he who
in 1839. It is the oldest wooden house on moved the stone as the one to conquer and
the Big Island. Upstairs is the Island unite the Hawaiian Islands.
Heritage Gallery. Next door is the Earth
Heritage Gallery with its mineral PACIFIC TSUNAMI MUSEUM
collection. The Lyman Museum is located Experience Hawaiian hospitality as
at 276 Halai St. (808) 935-5021 docents take you thru exhibits with
dramatic pictures, videos and amazing
RAINBOW FALLS This 80 ft. (24m) survivor accounts of Hawaii's devastating
falls spills into a natural pool surrounded tsunamis. 130 Kamehameha Ave. (808)
with wild ginger. Morning sunshine 935-0926
makes beautiful rainbows in the mist.
Legend is that Hina, the mother of Maui, HILO FARMERS MARKET This is the
lives in the cave behind the falls. best farmers market in Hawaii, right
Upstream is BOILING POTS, whichare downtown on Wed. and Sat. only!
bubbling rapids as the river races toward
the falls. KILAUEA VOLCANO, HAWAII
VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK This
AKAKA FALLS One of Hawaii's most map on side two of Franko's Map of
scenic waterfalls is seen via an easy paved Hawaii, the Big Island shows a close-up
path through the rain forest and down to of Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii Volcanoes
an observation point. The view of the 442 National Park. The artwork on this detail
ft. (135m) Akaka Falls is gorgeous, is rather stunning! Not only is there green
especially after a heavy rain. Nearby shaded relief showing the downslope of
Kahuna Falls cascades 400' (124m), but it the volcano as it extends to the ocean, but
is a more difficult walk with many stair the undersea itself has blue shaded relief,
steps. indicating the lava shelf and undersea
BANYAN DRIVE Huge banyans thrive cliffs as they actually are. The most recent
in Hilo's rain. Planted in the 1930's by few years of lava flows are shown in ever
celebrities, such as Amelia Earhart & hotter colors (reds, yellows and oranges)
Babe Ruth. accurately showing the flow of lava down
the flank of Kilauea from the Pu'u O'o
LILIUOKALANI GARDENS The largest vent, which has spewed out lava
formal Japanese garden outside of Tokyo continuously since 1983. This
has bonsai, carp ponds, and pagodas. extraordinary detail of Kilauea as depicted
Coconut Island has a palm that measures by yours truly (Franko) is a work of
recent tsunamis. scientific art. Having personally explored
Kilauea Volcano at Hawaii Volcanoes
