Honolulu - day 1

I woke at lunch time and thought with a smile, 'I'm in Hawaii!!!'.

Met up with Caitlin (the other Aussie in the program) and Daniel (a kiwi) and headed off to the beach just after midday. We headed down to Waikiki beach and shared our stories...

Taking our time on what is probably more like a 40 minute walk, we got to the beach in two hours and were stoked with what we saw. Despite the thousands of people on the beach, it was clean, happy and impressive.

Although Waikiki beach is like Vegas on the sea (with all the huge hotels) it still manages to retain an endearing amount of charm! It's also kind of exciting to look up a strip of hotels and be overwhelmed by a giant lush green mountain at the end of the street!

In the evening we headed into Chinatown (which we later learnt was not the safest thing to do at that time) and I saw a rainbow in the Rainbow State.

It was such a great introduction to this lovely state.

Mahalo Honolulu.
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