Rock Cafe and Planet Hollywood can be found there.
Ten to fifteen minutes of walking from Waikiki is Ala Moana Center, the largest open-air shopping center in the world with 180 stores and over 7.800 parking places. Downtown of Honolulu is about 1 mile away from Ala Moana. It’s part of Honolulu with skyscrapers and china town.
But Hawaii is not only Waikiki and Honolulu. It’s also part of nature. If you want to get familiar with it, you have to leave Honolulu. On the East of Oahu, there is Hanauma bay. Hanauma bay is an underwater park. You swim between hundreds of fishes. Sometimes you have even problems to take picture of your friend under water (with waterproof camera) , because between you and your friend are so many fishes that your friend couldn’t be seen on the picture. On the other hand, you can visit real rain forest on the same island. It rains there every 15 minutes, so it’s little uncomfortable hiking, but the wild nature is very exciting.
Let’s move to the Big Island, sometimes also called Hawaii. It’s the biggest island with the largest active volcano in the world. One half of this island looks like Moon landscape, second half of this island is mostly covered by rain forests with many waterfalls. Some of them are more than 50 meter high. More interesting is, of course, part with volcanoes. You can see there something you won’t see anywhere else in the world - roads covered by real lava. Yes, it’s true. You are driving and suddenly there is end of the road. But not common end as you know it from other countries. There is two meter high layer of lava over the road. Speaking of volcanoes, I know interesting story about it. We’ve visited small museum on the side of the greatest crater (2 km in diameter). There were some seismographs placed in this museums. Above them there was notation like this: “How do we recognize that volcano eruption is coming? There are many very light earthquakes, which people cannot feel, before volcano eruption is coming”. I looked at the seismograph and realized that there were many small earthquakes this year. After minute of watching seismograph I realized that it’s moving quite fast. Those small earthquakes had to be couple of hours old, not couple of months as I supposed. I told it to my friends and I added that eruption is may be coming. They told me that I’m totally dumb. This happened on Saturday. On Sunday, we took airplane back to Honolulu. When I bought newspaper next day, I saw an article with title like this: “The biggest volcano eruption in past 10 years came yesterday”. I was really sad, because I didn’t see the eruption. I could write about tens of other topics related to Hawaii.