Kualoa Ranch in Oahu, Hawai'i

Me and my family went to O'ahu, one of Hawaii's beautiful islands. This island is full of beautiful sites and wonderful people. This island is filled with beaches, and sight seeing experiences for people of all ages. We went through many local towns. One of our favorite towns was Haleiwa. This town is beautiful with many local businesses that sell a variety of items. Everyone in town is very friendly, and will help you find anything you need.

Besides the many beautiful beaches and lovely towns we visited along the way, one of the first places we went was Kualoa Ranch. This ranch offers many difference experiences. Many of which involve sets from the many movies that have been filmed in this location. Movies like the Jurassic Park series, King Kong: Skull Island, Karate Kid, Godzilla, Jumanji, and more were all filmed on this ranch. We took a tour of these movie set via a vintage school bus. This tour showed all of the amazing sites while also giving the beautiful history behind this location, and Hawaii in general.

We also went on their Jurassic Adventure Tour. This tour visited a couple of the same sites as our first tour, but also went through many new Jurassic World sets. This tour also gave us a wonderful tour of the mountain sides of the two mountains that enclose this ranch. We even got to climb to one of the peaks and look out over the two valleys.

We also went to Climb Works. They are a zip line company with zip lines that range from 500-2400 feet. You take an ATV ride up then zip down a 8 line course over the wonderful Keana Farms. Along the way there are many "challenges" which gave a lot of personality to the course. The tour guides were very friendly, and gave a lot of history of the land and island.

One of our last stops was Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor is a both aworking military base and a historical site. My husbands grandfather was at Pearl Harbor during its attack.So this day was very important to us. We spent the day looking at everything we could. We even had a recording we could play throughout our walk through that would tell us what we were looking at, and its story.

Overall Oahu is a great place to go vacation. It is full of wonderful sites and people. Even though we went out and did all these excursions and tours, Oahu is also a place where you can just relax. From where ever you are staying you will have a beautiful view, and a beach nearby. Oahu is a great vacations spot for all different types of vacationers.

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