hey guys welcome to daddicated and in this video I want to show you top five places to
visit on the Big Island of Hawaii so we recently went on vacation to Hawaii and my wife did a lot
of research on all the places she wants to visit and being that I love to record stuff I decided to
document and share with you guys so let's begin so the first place we visited was called a blue
Lu Valley it is on the north tip of the island I recommend you get there early enough to where
you can park you park at the top and then you can hike down to the valley the bottom of the
valley where there's a black sand beach and parking it's pretty much right on the street
there's like a dead end in the street and there isn't really a lot of room so if you come early
enough the you'll be alright the beach area is very scenic you can see the valley and just the
scenery there's a few swings there and just a really cool place to hang out while it was
still not hot we decided to go continue along the beach and there's another scenic point on top of
the mountain that we wanted to check out along the beach there's this trail that basically takes you
up the mountain to where that scenic point is and you go through different terrains at one point it
literally felt like a jungle but the overall hike wasn't too bad this is another reason why going
in the morning is a good idea because it's not as hot the hike was definitely worth it and the
view was breathtaking as you can see there's this bench that you could sit on and take a break and
just basically just enjoy the atmosphere on the way back we decided to spend more time on the
beach and since the Sun was out and it was warm that the water was actually pretty warm to where
you could swim unfortunately we didn't have our swimming gear with us but we did take a stroll on
the beach which was really nice and as you can see the sand is black here which is pretty cool on the
way back from Palillo Valley were stopped by the way opal Valley which was really close to it and
as you can see it's another scenic point that you can come and look at there is a trail but
it's more advanced and we were already tired as it is we didn't we didn't go down to the valley
at number 2 we have the Latinos the National Park here we've spent an entire day the park is huge
and there's a lot to see there first we stopped by the Callaway caldera it's the main volcanic
crater they say about a year ago this was filled with lava all the way to the brim that you can
basically walk around the crater and certain parts have like little trails with trees and stuff very
jungle like experience driving through the park we also stopped by the kilo Aki crater which you
can actually hike on there's a trail that takes you down to the bottom of it we didn't do that
on this trip but they say this volcano was formed about 50 years ago so next we drove down to the
ocean side to see the holy sea arch this sea arch was made by the volcanic lava and the drive there
it took some time to get down the mountain so the drive was maybe 20 minutes or so maybe more
I don't remember but the drive was very scenic we made a couple stops the rock the lava rocks
everywhere very interesting to see and just that the landscape was really cool to see once on the
bottom there's a short walk to the edge of where you can actually see the holy sea arch the old
lava everywhere reminded me of like big fudge brownie it was very fascinating to see like the
texture of it and how it formed the holy sea arch is about 90 foot tall it's a natural arch
that was formed by volcanic lava yes so it was very cool to see that coming in at number 3 we
have Captain Cook's monument as you can see you park on the street so I recommend you come there
early enough to where there's not packed plus you want to avoid the heat honey how you feel
smile for camera or wave the hike is about one point eight miles down to where you can snorkel
at the Captain Cook Monument the hike itself was very cool is very jungle like whose lots
of grass I felt like you were in the middle of the jungle on board point there's also very scene
breathtaking view as you can see this was the most inexpensive way to get there you
could get there by a boat or a kayak like a rental but we've decided to hike down there
we completely underestimated this hike because hiking down there was fine but hiking up was
painful but because it was around 2 o'clock we only packed very limited of food and that
limited the water when we got there so our resources were depleted and when it's tough
it was time to head back we kind of ran out of water and it was 2 o'clock during the day
so it's really hot and on top of that we were carrying our snorkeling gear towels so it was
very exhausting but it was definitely worth it it made the trip more memorable this way
I guess and the snorkeling there is really nice too in just a cool atmosphere at the monument
at number 4 we went to akaka falls state park this was a much easier park compared to the
monument and there is an actual parking lot so I don't think you have to come early unless you
want to probably spend and maybe a couple hours there total maybe not even they took
us about an hour to two to get there depending on where you're located on the island and the
park is very kid family-friendly you basically it's a paved trail with some stairs up and down
and it's maybe a 10-minute walk to to get to the waterfall from the parking lot and that includes
pictures regardless the waterfall was very scenic and really cool to see and take some
pictures and saving the best for the last number five we went to the green sand beach this was
probably one of our favorite experiences this was a whole day event basically get there and
you park your car and it's about a 2.2 mile hike to the actual beach where the Greens hand is now
they do offer the locals offer offer shuttles which aren't free they're like $20 a person
originally we wanted to take a shuttle just to save time but since we were the only two there
they wanted us to wait for more people to come to get like a group thing so we got tired of
waiting after 15 minutes we just decided to walk ourselves there because the weather was nice and
it was early enough to where I wasn't super hot so we decided to walk there the trail itself is
very dusty but it's along the shore so there's a breeze plus it's a nice you as well but very
desert like environment kind of reminded me of maybe like Stata Utah or something I mean never
been there but based on the pictures the beach itself once you get there was very beautiful it's
surrounded by these two cliffs and we actually ended up swimming there so you have to hike down
to get to the beach and then there's a lot of people swimming there but I do warn you that
if you're not a good swimmer maybe don't go in too deep because the waves were pretty big but
overall it was very fun experience for both me and my wife and she's not the best swimmer but
she was fine since I was with her definitely recommend this to anyone who is going to be
visiting the Big Island of Hawaii anyways thanks for watching my top 5 things to do
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