Revisiting Oahu Island, Hawaii 2017/Carlos Pueblo

Revisiting Oahu Island, Hawaii 2017/Carlos Pueblo

I had had an opportunity to revisit Oahu Island earlier this month for

4 days before and after a 4 islands cruise trip. We took buses to visit

some of the places where we previous visited and walked most of the

time along Waikiki Beach. Bus tour included Chinatown, cross island

route with two stops at a fruit stand one stop after the Turtle Bay

Resort and Matsumoto Icy place at Waimea. We walked to the Diamond

Head and hiked to the summit, walked to Alawai canal, then the Lenard

Donut and hopped on a bus to visit the University of Hawaii Manoa campus.

Honolulu bus is very advanced covering almost the entire island. I know it

very well with fairly good experience. We took the bus from Waikiki to the

harbor pier to board the cruise and the same route back to Waikiki from the

ship. Each time we would pass through Chinatown and downtown Honolulu.

We took a bus at downtown Alakea at Bishop to cross the island passing by

Taiwanese Government Office mansion, the Kamehameha Highway along the

North shore coastal line, Mormon Church, Brigham Young Campus, to the Turtle

Bay Resort. I remembered to get off the bus one stop after Turtle Bay to drop

by visiting my old Filipino friend, the original fruit stand owner, now he opens

a bar-b-que grill restaurant at a nearby village. After that is the sunset beach

park of the north shore with full of visitors for surfing. At crowded Waikiki, there

are shuttles to transport surfers to the north shore. We took off again at Matsu

moto store for red bean icy. The place is full of customers in a newly organized

court yard. Waimea is an old village of the old sugar plantation like my hometowns

in Taiwan, my father had worked in Taiwan’s sugar plantation for most of his life.

We migrated from sugar plantation one to another. Hawaiian sugar plantation

looks like those in Taiwan.

One day, we walked along Alawai canal toward the zoo and turned north toward

a donut store. I consumed the donuts and took a bus to the Manoa campus of the

University of Hawaii. I am familiar with the route because of previous experience.

We toured the pretty campus of the university, East West Center, Korean Culture

Center, and Okinawa Culture center and finally took a break at a bench of a shaded

trees area before we continued some more touring. I found a yogurt shop across a

street from the campus and I recognized the hostel where I used to stay. A lady owner

recognized me and kindly show Amy where I stayed.