For over 20 years, Pamela Lanier's Big Island, Hawaii Travel Guide has been your connection to Big Island's tourism community with invaluable details on local attractions, restaurants, shopping, museums, history, outdoor recreation and more.
Explore the Big Island
You’ll find many fascinating things to see and do during your stay at a Big Island bed and breakfast. Your bed and breakfast innkeepers will delight in helping you plan an interesting itinerary that stays true to your personal interests.
It will most certainly be agreed that you won’t want to leave the Big Island without first exploring the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. This is one of the few places in the world where you can witness ongoing volcanic activity. The Jaggar Museum, a museum of volcanology, provides an overlook that affords remarkable views of the volcano. For an imposing look at the steam and gas plume produced by lava flowing into the ocean, the Volcano House Hotel and the adjacent trail offer a prime vantage point.
Perhaps your most anticipated attraction while visiting the Big Island is the coastline to experience for yourself the famous black sandy beaches. Ask your bed and breakfast innkeeper to point you in the direction of Kehena Beach and Punalu’u Beach, two of the Big Island’s most well-know black sand beaches. Also unfamiliar to most visitors of the Big Island are the green sandy beaches. You’ll find such an anomalous beach at South Point where the green mineral, olivine, which has been deposited by the eroded cinder cone of the volcano, has made the sand green. There are other secluded green sand beaches which await the truly adventurous bed and breakfast visitor. It is possible your bed and breakfast hosts can direct you to them.
For a first-hand tropical experience of the Big Island, venture from your bed and breakfast with a good pair of hiking shoes and make your way to the Akaka Falls State Park. Here, you can hike through the Big Island’s lush rainforest filled with wild orchids, ferns, and bamboo groves to reach two gorgeous waterfalls. Akaka Falls State Park provide a great opportunity to get some exercise, reacquaint yourself with nature, and capture terrific photographs of the plummeting waterfalls.
