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Hawai'i.

My parents really wanted to go on a family vacation there, and it was...alright, but I was very underwhelmed by the overall experience. The food was awful, for one. (I've heard that you can get good food but it's very expensive.) The scenery was pretty, and one place we went (Waimea Canyon) was really beautiful, but there was little in the way of wildlife-specific areas (at least that we went to), it was all very tourist-trappy, no good food, and beaches just like any other beach. Plus the jetlag. I was very cranky the first day because I'd been up for I think like 22 hours. The only really fun part of the trip to me was taking a catamaran tour and going snorkeling. That part was really neat.

It doesn't help that just two weeks after that I went to Costa Rica for the first time. Before that summer I had never been anywhere tropical at all, even though I'd always wanted to go to the tropics, and between the two Costa Rica was by far the better experience. It blew Hawai'i out of the water in pretty much every regard - culture, food, scenery, wildlife, and interesting things to do. And it doesn't cost an arm and a leg to get good food (plus travel within the country is pretty cheap, too, which means more options!).

Edited 2015-06-08 01:04 (UTC)

I've only been to the Big Island and I really liked that, but I'm a big nerd who enjoys things like Volcanoes National Park and Mauna Kea and historical stuff and random waterfalls. Apparently going for horseback rides is also a thing you can do there, although we didn't. Lots of sushi. Less tourist-trappy. Beaches aren't great, but I don't like beaches much.

Maybe I would have liked the Big Island better! We were on Kaua'i, and other than Waimea Canyon and general prettiness regarding the ocean being everywhere*, the latter of which you can see in many generally more interesting places, there wasn't that much to look at. When it comes to travel, food and nature are two of the biggest pulls to me. Volcanoes are awesome and I would have enjoyed getting to explore that part of Hawai'i a bit more.

*It was also weird and a bit freaky thinking about how we were "water-locked" with basically no land other than the other islands for 2,000 miles or so in every direction - but only when I really stopped to think about it.

The food was awful, for one.

YOU TAKE THAT BACK. D:

I'm...sorry?

All the food we ate at restaurants was mediocre at best. I didn't have any home-cooked food. The fresh fruit was delicious but fresh tropical fruit is delicious everywhere.

Are you Hawai'ian?

Spent all of middle school + high school + every college summer there. So close enough.

But nah, I was half joking/half serious.

Although I also remembered after I posted that food tourists tend to eat != food locals tend to eat. My extended family sometimes visited and my parents would drag us out to luaus and the food would always be massive buffet stuff and mostly just so-so.

Hawaiian food to me is manapuas, li hing mui from crack seed stores, malasadas fresh from a Leonard's truck, curry houses (MY GOD ARE THEY HARD TO FIND ON THE MAINLAND), freshly made peanut butter mochi that goes bad in two days because there are no preservatives whatsoever, properly ground shave ice, mochiko chicken...

The list goes on and on.

It's really too bad, then, that the food that is apparently available/marketed to tourists isn't similar to what the locals eat.

(Note: I was 16 when I was there, and I my folks were calling all the shots. Not sure how different an experience I'd have if I were doing it on my own. Are there places where people can find good, well-made Hawai'ian fare, or is it mostly homemade?)

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