Angela's World Travels: Honolulu, Hawaii 2005

My first trip to Hawaii, my friends and I headed out to Honolulu for a couple of days in 2005. It was an amazing trip, I'd love to go back to Hawaii and explore other parts of the beautiful island.

This was this first picture I took when I arrived. Apparently Spam is very popular. I never tried one though.

Did you know Spam was introduced on July 5, 1937, the name "Spam" was chosen in the 1930s when the product, whose original name was far less memorable (Hormel Spiced Ham), began to lose market share. The name was chosen from multiple entries in a naming contest. A Hormel official once stated that the original meaning of the name spam was "Shoulder of Pork and hAM".

Waikīkī Beach
Waikīkī extends from the Ala Wai Canal (a channel dug to drain former wetlands) on the west and north, to Diamond Head or Lēʻahi on the east. The name means spouting water in Hawaiian for springs and streams that fed wetlands that once separated Waikīkī from the interior.

Hanauma Bay
Hanauma Bay is a marine embayment formed within a volcanic cone or crater and located along the southeast coast of the Island of O‘ahu (just east of Honolulu) in the Hawaiian Islands."Hanauma" literally means "curved bay".

Visit Hanauma Bay

Diamond Head
We were on our way to the aquarium and
Diamond Head is the name of a tuff cone on the Hawaiian island of Oʻahu and known to Hawaiians as Lēʻahi. English name was given by British sailors in the 19th century, who mistook calcite crystals embedded in the rock for diamonds. Many tourists visiting Hawaii believe that Diamond Head is a volcano although it really isn't. It is located on the coast east of Waikīkī.
Elevation 762 ft (232 m) // Type Volcanic cone // Age of rock 200,000 years

The Waikiki Aquarium
Founded in 1904, and part of the University of Hawaii since 1919, the Waikiki Aquarium is the third oldest aquarium in the United States and a continuing leader in coral reef exhibitry and research. Along with the shoreline by Kapiolani park, the Waikiki Aquarium features living corals and colorful reef fish. Over 2,500 organisms from 420 species are on exhibit, including the endangered Hawaiian monk seal.

The Waikiki Aquarium
We took a very long bus ride to a beach with not much tourist which is nice but I completely forgot what the place is called. Anyways, for anyone who cannot swim I suggest kayaking (life jacket is a must)!