Hawaii Section
Information for VISITORS to Hawaii
GO HAWAII
This website provides information for those who are planning to visit Hawaii. It is for visitors from North America and other parts of the world (click on the appropriate link that the very top right of their webpage).
(This is a Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau (HVCB) website. HVCB works with the State of Hawaii agency, Hawaii Tourism Authority.)
www.goHAWAII.com (summarized on 6-17-2009)
Places of Interest in Hawaii
This is a state of Hawaii website that provides links to places of interest and websites for various islands for visitors to Hawaii.
www.eHawaii.gov/dakine/visiting.htm (summarized on 6-17-2009)
Information about Hawaii for EVERYONE
Polynesian Voyaging Society and NASA
Seems that the Polynesian Voyaging Society (PVS) are on their way to prove that the Polynesian seafarers were amazing in their ability to navigate throughout the South Pacific and as far north as Hawaii before European explorers arrived in the Pacific in the 1500's.
Hokule'a is a voyaging canoe that is designed similar to those the Polynesians seafarers used when they were exploring the South Pacific before the 1500's.
In 1992, there was historic three-way satellite communication link with the Hokule'a traveling in the South Pacific, NASA's space shuttle Columbia and some children of Hawaii. The children asked those aboard both vessel about navigation of their vessels and about exploration.
http://pvs.kcc.hawaii.edu/1992/voyhome.html (summarized on 6-17-2009)
A 1992 NASA end-of-year report mentions the Hokule'a
(See 10 paragraphs before the end of the report).
http://pvs.kcc.hawaii.edu/1992/voyhome.html
(summarized on 6-17-2009)
Hawaii Nature Center
Hawaii Nature Center at Iao Valley has a voluntourism program.
(Voluntourism is about volunteering during part or all of a vacation. It is giving into the local community and maybe getting to know the local people and culture that you may not otherwise.)
http://www.hawaiinaturecenter.org (summarized on 6-17-2009)
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