Hawaii

Day 1

Day 2

Coffee/Early walk

Hiking-Diamond head

Dole Plantation

Dinner at JJ Bistro

Day 3

Quick tour -North shore

Day 4

Dinner at Tokkuri-Tei

The Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum is the Hawaii State Museum of Natural and Cultural History and it is located in the historic Kalihi district of Honolulu. Founded in 1889, it is the largest museum in Hawaii and is home to the world's largest collection of Polynesian cultural and scientific artifacts. The Bishop Museum has an extensive entomological collection of over 13.5 million specimens, the third largest collection in the United States. The Bishop museum exhibits Hawaiian and Polynesian arts, crafts, artifacts, and flora and fauna. Among items on display at Hawaiian Hall are royal jewelry, crowns and thrones, weapons, feather capes and cloaks, outrigger canoes, surfboards, artifacts of whalebone and tortoise shell, and a ceiling-mounted sperm whale skeleton with a papier-mâché body. Artisans demonstrate traditional crafts such as quilting, weaving, and lei making.

They do not let people photograph the inside of the museum so pictures are only from the exterior of the museum.

Entrance of the Museum

Bishop Hall

Charles Reed Bishop, a Hawaiian philanthropist and co-founder of Kamehameha Schools and First Hawaiian Bank, built the museum in memory of his late wife, Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop. She was the last legal heir of the Kamehameha Dynasty, which ruled the Kingdom of Hawaii between 1810 and 1872. Bishop had originally intended the museum to house family heirlooms passed down to him through the royal lineage of his wife.

Bad boy chef Anthony Bourdain taped a segment of "No Reservations." at the Side street inn. Tony ate the famous pork chops, kimchee fried rice, and super solid fish preparations. So we wanted to try it out... if it is good for Tony it had to be good for us!

Side Street Inn is a little whole in a wall kind of restaurant where they served reasonably priced food and the portion are huge. It's all served family style and it's all good. The ambiance is more sports bar or hang out joint and this is as popular hang out!

This the famous pork chop that Tony Bourdain ate.

Unfortunately for us they do not serve it until 2:00Pm so we did not get a chance to try it out.

We had the beef on a sizzling platter and an order of pork Tonkatsu (Japanese deep-fried pork). Huge portion so we only order 2 dishes for the 3 of us and we did not even finish the whole thing.