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The tour starts at the farm, not the retail store in town. You meet at the cacao orchard on Old Mamalahoa Highway, about five minutes outside Honokaʻa, where Mike Pollard walks you through how cacao  grows from flower to pod. He covers cultivation, harvesting, fermentation, and drying in sequence. If pods are ready, you’ll taste […]

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The tour starts at Lavaloha’s Visitor Center, where a guide loads the group onto a small electric bus for a loop through the farm’s cacao orchards. The property is about 15 minutes from downtown Hilo — 1,000 acres total, with 24 dedicated to cacao and another 11 to coffee. The guide covers the growing conditions […]

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Ponoholo Ranch sits at 3,000 feet in the North Kohala highlands, and the climate shift from the coast is immediate. The grass stays green even in dry months, the air is noticeably cooler, and the horizon stretches from the Kohala coastline across to Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa. Paniolo Adventures has been running rides on […]

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Feast & Fire is a story-based luau held on the waterfront at the Outrigger Kona Resort & Spa, above Keauhou Bay on the Kona coast. The evening runs 2.5 hours and follows a narrative about Polynesian migration to Hawaiʻi, which gives it more structure than the variety-show format at most Big Island luaus. Check-in opens […]

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The Mauna Kea Luau runs on the oceanfront lawn of the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, a 1965 resort on Kauna’oa Bay on the Kohala Coast. The setting is the first thing you notice: the tables face the water, the show begins as the sun drops toward the horizon, and on clear evenings the sky is […]

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