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The one place I regret that I didn't spend enough time at on O'ahu is the Pali Lookout.
"Pali" means "cliff" in Hawai'ian, and the Pali Lookout is a pass through the Koolah Mountains with Pali on both sides. When Kamehameha the Great invaded from the Big Island, O'ahu's armies made their last stand in the pass, and Kamehameha's armies drove them over the cliffs. When they built the original Pali highway here, they found the bones of hundreds of Hawai'ian soldiers. The Lookout gives you this incredible panorama of O'ahu's Windward, east side. You can see both the cities on the Windward side, Kaneohe and Kailua, from the pass.
When you stand in the pass, on the old Pali Highway, the wind gets funneled between the cliffs and hits you so hard it'll support you if you lean against it. Then you walk another ten feet forward, and the wind dies, just dies, none left.
The old Pali Highway is my favorite thing about the Lookout. When they made the new Highway, they left the old one, and over the decades it's gotten overgrown and fragmented, and strewn with fallen rocks. To me, it looked like this incredible Yellow Brick Road of a post-apocalyptic road. I vowed that, one day, I would film a really badass fight scene for a martial arts movie there.
The one place I regret that I didn't spend enough time at on O'ahu is the Pali Lookout.
"Pali" means "cliff" in Hawai'ian, and the Pali Lookout is a pass through the Koolah Mountains with Pali on both sides. When Kamehameha the Great invaded from the Big Island, O'ahu's armies made their last stand in the pass, and Kamehameha's armies drove them over the cliffs. When they built the original Pali highway here, they found the bones of hundreds of Hawai'ian soldiers. The Lookout gives you this incredible panorama of O'ahu's Windward, east side. You can see both the cities on the Windward side, Kaneohe and Kailua, from the pass.
When you stand in the pass, on the old Pali Highway, the wind gets funneled between the cliffs and hits you so hard it'll support you if you lean against it. Then you walk another ten feet forward, and the wind dies, just dies, none left.
The old Pali Highway is my favorite thing about the Lookout. When they made the new Highway, they left the old one, and over the decades it's gotten overgrown and fragmented, and strewn with fallen rocks. To me, it looked like this incredible Yellow Brick Road of a post-apocalyptic road. I vowed that, one day, I would film a really badass fight scene for a martial arts movie there.
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hawaii , honolulu , tourist attractions , historical sites , awesome movie locations , jacks tour
hawaii , honolulu , tourist attractions , historical sites , awesome movie locations , jacks tour
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