Oahu - Pearl Harbor & Downtown Honolulu Memorial (USA)

For today we had planned to visit the Pearl Harbor Memorial and Downtown Honolulu. For this purpose, we went from our city hotel in Waikiki by local bus directly to the Pearl Harbor Visitor Center. This route takes just over 1 hour.

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Visit to Pearl Harbor Memorial

Admission to the Pearl Harbour Museum is fortunately free,which includes a visit to the USS Arizona Memorial and a boat trip there. Tickets are issued according to the first-come-first-served principle and then have a fixed time. That’s why it’s worth being there early. If you also want to visit the USS Missouri Battleship, the Bowfin submarine and the Pacific Aviation Museum (which we haven’t done), the total entrance fee for these sights is about ’40.

The free tour to the USS Arizona Memorial first includes a 23-minute film about the background to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and shows sequences from the day of the attack. Afterwards, a boat was taken to the USS Arizona Memorial, which was built over the sunken remains of the battleship Arizona. After the tour we looked at an exhibition that illustrates further details of the attack with image, sound, film and historical documents.

The entrance to Pearl Harbor

Old plane on the site

Old Missile of the US Navy

Pearl Harbor Historic Sites

Crossroads of the Pacific

The USS Bowfin Submarine

Boat ride to the monument

Commemorative plaque USS Arizona

The USS Arizona Memorial

The sunken USS Arizona

Crossroads of the Pacific

Downtown Honolulu

After about three hours in Pearl Harbor we took the bus back to Downtown Honolulu. The King Kamehameha statue (first king of Hawaii) was particularly interesting in front of the Hawaii State Supreme Court. This building is also known from the series “Hawaii 5O” 🙂 Directly opposite is the Iolani Palace, the former royal residence. A few streets away is Chinatown, which is rather small compared to other cities in the Us.

The King Kamehameha Statue

The Iolani Palace

The Iolani Barracks

Kawaiahao Church

Our rental car for O’ahu

After a short visit to the city centre we took the bus back to the airport and picked up our rental car at Avis (booked via billiger-mietwagen.de)for the next two days: a black Chevrolet Camaro convertible 🙂

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Our car rental for Oahu

A drive along the west coast of O’ahu

With bright sunshine and an open roof, we headed to the west coast of Oahu – past countless beach parks, green mountains and through small surfer sands.

Ka'ena Point State Park

The west coast of Oahu

The Starbucks Cup by Waikiki

Seit einiger Zeit sammeln wir die Starbucks Tassen der Städte (City Mugs) und Inseln, die wir auf unseren Reisen besuchen. Die großen Tassen gibt es leider nicht von jeder Stadt, in der es auch eine Starbucks Filiale gibt. Aber wenn es eine solche Tasse gibt, dann finden wir diese ein wirklich schönes Andenken. Hierbei sammeln wir allerdings (fast) nur Städtetassen der 2008 erschienenen “Global Icon Serie”. Unsere komplette Sammlung könnt Ihr Euch hier ansehen: Starbucks – Unsere Tassensammlung der Global Icon Serie

Waikiki has several Starbucks stores and also a really nice cup with a hula dancer, which is now very rare and correspondingly expensive.

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The Starbucks City Cup of Waikiki

Unsere Reiseberichte von Hawaii (2015)

Unsere Weltreise führte uns nach fast 2 Monaten vom amerikanischen Festland nach Hawaii. Inmitten des Pazifischen Ozeans gelegen, 3.600 Kilometer vom US-amerikanischen Festland entfernt, liegt der 50. Bundesstaat der USA. Für viele der Inbegriff der Südsee. Während unseres zweiwöchigen Aufenthalts auf Hawaii haben wir vier der sechs Hauptinseln besucht: Kauai, O‘ahu, Maui und Big Island. Jede dieser Inseln hat ihre eigene Persönlichkeit, Natur und Sehenswürdigkeiten und bietet allen Geschmäckern unterschiedliche Aktivitäten: Von der Großstadt Honolulu mit dem berühmten Waikiki Beach, dem faszinierenden Waimea Canyon und der atemberaubenden Napali Coast auf Kauai, der bekannten Road to Hana auf Maui bis hin zum aktivsten Vulkan der Welt auf Big Island. Die Inseln versprühen ein einzigartiges Flair und haben uns sehr schnell mit dem berühmten Aloha-Charme verzaubert.