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  • There are lots of locally produced maps. The University of Hawai'i Press ones are the best and cheapest. Look for the blue and green printing on a white cover.
  • Don't miss the farmers markets and thrift stores. The latter are particularly good places to find an aloha shirt. Don't buy too much local fruit, though: you won't be able to bring it back to the mainland.
  • I particularly enjoyed our two nights at Hotel Manago in Captain Cook on the Big Island. It's a trip back in time to 1938, with only the barest of concessions to the modern age: no phones or TV in the rather spartan rooms, but a pretty Japanese garden, and the beds were firm and new, easily the most comfortable I've had anyplace that cost less than $50 a night.

Date: 2005-11-26 05:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] c1.livejournal.com
Hotel rooms like that are all over Costa Rica, and similarly priced. They're great, aren't they?

Date: 2005-11-26 03:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] deguspice.livejournal.com
No phones or TV in the rooms sounds attractive.

Date: 2005-11-27 01:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] klingonlandlady.livejournal.com
Manago- was that the one that was an old plantation dormitory or something? I loved the avocado tree visible from the back, and the homestyle cooking. It was recommended to me by an old friend who grew up in Hilo.

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