By dtam on Skatehive
Announcing our arrival and asking permission to enter Halawa Valley, on the island of Molokai. When I take guests onto the island of Molokai, I tell them that they are now the 1% of the 1% of people that come to Hawaii. Molokai doesn't get many tourists. They have no chain restaurants, no chain hotels, no stop lights, and not much that caters to tourists. But those brave explorers that do make it to this island, find a land lost in time. You can stand on the beach in Halawa Valley, looking three miles up to waterfalls cascading in the back, and not see a single other person. The high rise hotels of Waikiki seem very far away here. And that is how the locals on this island like it. It is an island of Hawaiian values and traditions. And that is what we are here to discover. We are spending the day with the Solotario family to immerse into Hawaiian food and culture. I join the hard charging team that hikes all the way through the rainforest, past ancient temples, home sites, and rock wall