Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
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Each plant usually produces just two pineapples, one in its second year and one
in its third year.
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Pineapples are harvested year-round, but the long, sunny days of summer pro-
duce the sweetest fruit.
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Pineapples won't continue to ripen after they've been picked.
Sights & Activities
Hawaii's Plantation Village
MUSEUM
(
677-0110;
www.hawaiiplantationvillage.org
;
Waipahu Cultural Garden Park, 94-695 Waipahu St;
90min tours adult/child 4-11yr $13/5; tours 10am, 11am, noon & 1pm Mon-Sat)
The lives of
immigrants who came to work on Hawaii's sugarcane plantations are examined at this
outdoor historical museum and cultural park. Designed primarily for school field trips,
the dusty, sprawling grounds encompass two dozen buildings typical of an early-20th-
century plantation village. Although the village shows its age, you can still learn a lot by
taking a guided tour.
Led by volunteers, walking tours visit a historic Chinese cookhouse and Japanese Sh-
intō shrine, as well as the replica homes of the many ethnic groups - Hawaiian, Japanese,
Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Puerto Rican and Filipino - who labored on Hawaii's
plantations.
By car from Honolulu, take the H1 Fwy west to exit 7, turn left onto Paiwa St, then
right onto Waipahu St for three blocks; the complex will be on your left. From Waikiki,
TheBus 42 stops twice hourly at the Waipahu Transit Center, about a 0.6-mile walk
away.
Eating
Poke Stop
SEAFOOD, LOCAL $$$
(
http://poke-stop.com
;
Waipahu Town Center, 94-050 Farrington Hwy; mains $8-14; 9am-7pm
Mon-Sat, to 4pm Sun)
It's a longish detour west of Pearl Harbor, but some folks would
drive all the way across the island just for the chef's deconstructed sushi bowls, plate
lunches with spicy eggplant fries, and over 20 kinds of
poke
- ahi mixed with sweet
Maui onions or more unusual
ʻoʻio
(bonefish) will leave you salivating for more. Also in
Miʻilani (
Click here
).
