Today we are going to buy the one day bus ticket ($5.50/pax) to explore around Honolulu town!
first stop breakfast!
we stopped over at Ala Moana Hawai'i's Center. It's kind of a mall with food courts, grocery stores, shopping and lots more.
there is a Foodland grocery store, love this store! alot of food options
they even have a Poke station! and price is reasonable. You can try all before deciding what you want
Boon settled for spicy tuna! Comes with rice too
there is also a Japanese food court with lots of options from ramen, udon to pork katsu curry rice. i had a spicy ramen. It's open at 10am!
taking the bus is easy in Honolulu, they announce every single stopped with names and attractions.
From Ala Moana we took the bus #3 to Iolani Palace. There are many bus options to get here, just check google map for detail direction, very easy!
Hawaiian State Art Museum, this place really got my hometown's feel (Penang) with the colonial buildings
just across the road is the Iolani palace
ticket office is at this building. Entrance fee to the palace is $20 with audio guide
Iolani palace
love the banyan trees so huge and just give a good shade to the area
just opposite the road is the courthouse and post office
trying to looking for the post office
just next door is Ali'iolani Hale building with the statue of King Kamehameha
originally this building was designed as a palace built by Kamehameha V to house the legislature courts and cabinet offices
a Kuan Yin temple (Goddest of Mercy) just next door to the botanical garden
we then took the bus wanting to visit the Foster Botanical Garden, from outside it look abit small and entrance fee was $5/pax we decided to skipped it as it look abit like the one in our hometown figured we would know many trees there. Also the weather was too hot to enjoy
we walked to the nearest bust stop to head back to our hotel for a nice afternoon nap
after a nice shower and afternoon nap, we head out fro dinner.
after dinner it was just nice to see the sunset at the beach
while we were enjoying a nice stroll at the beach we stumble across a Hawaiian luau at the Royal Hawaiian resort. We watched it from the beach (the free version). Apparently it's a weekly open-air luau with buffet dinner and a hula and music show. we did enjoyed it even we saw their back most of the time :D hehe
and we enjoyed the night sky from the beach
~ Aloha ~
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