February 2011
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Aloha Friday: Your Favorite Tropical Fruit
Liza (A Maui Blog) asks “what is your favorite tropical fruit?”. Our (Manuela’s and Frank’s as well) favorite tropical fruit is
Papaya
We only have been twice in Hawai’i together (Frank was there in 1983 and 1997 on his own) and we LOVE papaya. But every time we came back from Hawai’i and bought some in Germany here we were soooo disappointed in comparison to...
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Lava Tree State Monument, HI
I’m sure you all know about Petrified Forests all over the world. But did you know there’s a petrified forest in Hawai’i? It’s the Lava Tree State Monument (Wikipedia) in the Puna District (Google Maps) on Big Island. It’s not that big like most other parks but it’s very impressive.
At least we were very impressed when we went there in May 2010 :-)
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Once again stunned by one of Philip Bloom’s videos: Monument Valley