Today was already my last day in Honolulu, on the island of Oahu (the third biggest island of the state of Hawaii). These were really super cool holidays, and I'm so happy I spent a week here! Next time I'll go to the island of Hawaii and Maui. I've already put that on my to-do list.
This morning I went to walk along Waikiki Beach and take pictures. The sky was blue and the sea had this green-blue color you see on the postcards. I visited the Hilton resort: all the famous hotel chains here have a bunch of nice shops, restaurants and gardens with exotic flowers surrounding their hotel. In one of the Hawaian shirts shops, I met Giuseppe, an Italian from Venice, who has been working in Honolulu for the past 2 years. We started to talk and it was quite fun. He told me that Hawaii is cool for a few months. Then you start to feel that the island is quite small. That's why most Hawaians like to escape to California. I can understand that: it's nice here for holidays, but I prefer California.
The problem here is that that renting or buying a condo or a house is terribly expensive. For example, they are currently building a large tower one block from the beach. All the studios were sold out in only 12 hours: 50 sqm for 500.000 USD!!! Most of the buyers were from Japan.
After that I took the bus to Hanauma Bay, a nice cove (on the East side of the island) as you can see in the pictures. There I took a picture of myself (yes folks, I'm really in Hawaii, no joke)! It's cool to travel alone because you can basically do what you want when you want. But it's hard to get a nice picture of yourself with the background...
In TheBus, you find the following funny rules: it is forbidden to spit, defecate or urinate. I wouldn't even think of doing that in a bus... But you know, freaks are everywhere.
I went back to Waikiki to watch the sunset. A nice one!!!
This evening, I feasted on sushis: as I said before, Hawaii is full of Japanese people. And so there are excellent sushi bars here (^_^). I ate tako (octopus), however it was quite spicy.
Tomorrow, I'll fly to Los Angeles. C U there. Aloha!!! (FYI: Aloha means hello/goodbye)
