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I did a walkabout Saturday morning from 'hotel row' back to downtown and then the Hilo library to play chess with several members of the Ohana Chess Club, Hilo's chess gathering is on Saturdays at 9:00 AM. I spend several hours playing while my sister was doing errands in town and attending her hydroponics class. I am also teaching Gyongyi how to play chess.
The Naha Stone sits in front of the Hilo Public Library. It was prophesied that the man who moved the Naha stone, which weighs nearly 5,000 pounds, would unite all of the Hawaiian islands and be the greatest king of all Hawaii. Kamehameha, at the age of fourteen, not only moved the stone, but lifted it end over end, and he eventually fulfilled the prophesy. The Pinao stone, which sits next to the Naha stone, once guarded an ancient temple.
I did a walkabout Saturday morning from 'hotel row' back to downtown and then the Hilo library to play chess with several members of the Ohana Chess Club, Hilo's chess gathering is on Saturdays at 9:00 AM. I spend several hours playing while my sister was doing errands in town and attending her hydroponics class. I am also teaching Gyongyi how to play chess.
The Naha Stone sits in front of the Hilo Public Library. It was prophesied that the man who moved the Naha stone, which weighs nearly 5,000 pounds, would unite all of the Hawaiian islands and be the greatest king of all Hawaii. Kamehameha, at the age of fourteen, not only moved the stone, but lifted it end over end, and he eventually fulfilled the prophesy. The Pinao stone, which sits next to the Naha stone, once guarded an ancient temple.
Hilo's Hotel Row
There is not tourist 'hotel row' in Hilo. It is not a magnet for tourists, although many cruise ship visitors and others visiting the Volcanoes National Park will walk around the downtown area. The existing three or four hotels are on lease land and in a dangerous tsunami zone. No building is allowed along the rest of the bay front, the main part, which the tsunamis have wasted in the past.
The leasehold nature of the hotel ownerships, coupled with the Hawaiian claims they are ceded lands, screwed up any efforts to renovate the hotels from the mid-70s until the State passed a bill a couple of years ago to provide assurance to the hoteliers.
Hilo has a very nice rhythm going of just being itself day after day (somewhat jarred by cruise ship days). The cottage industry attracts visitors who tend to fit in rather than expecting the place to conform to them. The Kona side is the touristic zone while Hilo remains the Hawaiian cultural place where you have to make your own party after 5:00 PM as the downtown area winds down.
allocated about 1.5 miles from downtown Hilo, the several existing hotels are close to each other near the "ice pond" and Liliu'okalani Gardens. None are what can be termed as resorts but the most upscale one is the Grand Maniloa Hotel (Doubletree by Hilton), followed by the Hilton Hawaiian, the Pagoda Hilo Bay and the Reed's Bay (budget hotel).
There is not tourist 'hotel row' in Hilo. It is not a magnet for tourists, although many cruise ship visitors and others visiting the Volcanoes National Park will walk around the downtown area. The existing three or four hotels are on lease land and in a dangerous tsunami zone. No building is allowed along the rest of the bay front, the main part, which the tsunamis have wasted in the past.
The leasehold nature of the hotel ownerships, coupled with the Hawaiian claims they are ceded lands, screwed up any efforts to renovate the hotels from the mid-70s until the State passed a bill a couple of years ago to provide assurance to the hoteliers.
Hilo has a very nice rhythm going of just being itself day after day (somewhat jarred by cruise ship days). The cottage industry attracts visitors who tend to fit in rather than expecting the place to conform to them. The Kona side is the touristic zone while Hilo remains the Hawaiian cultural place where you have to make your own party after 5:00 PM as the downtown area winds down.
allocated about 1.5 miles from downtown Hilo, the several existing hotels are close to each other near the "ice pond" and Liliu'okalani Gardens. None are what can be termed as resorts but the most upscale one is the Grand Maniloa Hotel (Doubletree by Hilton), followed by the Hilton Hawaiian, the Pagoda Hilo Bay and the Reed's Bay (budget hotel).
In the evening we went to listen to Bellingham, Washington's, Hot Damn Scandal band which plays 'tipsy American gypsy blues' – an original mix of outlaw ballads, dirty jazz, circus freakouts, ragtime sea-shanties, string band funk, lonesome heart-breakers, and the occasional tender love song. They were joined by Ani Banani, a female blues guitarist and singer. The band played at the very funky and small Kukuau Studio. About 50 people attended the show.
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