Corner View - Exotic (Hawaii)

(This post is also for Ellen at Anzu who asked for some recommendations for a friend.  I'll post some more views and museum and restaurant suggestions tomorrow.)

                                                                          Some call it exotic.

                                  A place where the sun always shines, even when it's raining.

                                               Where bouquets of flowers grow off of trees.

Roundtop, Tantalus, Oahu

                                            Where Italian royalty inhabit the steepest hillsides.

Waimanalo

Where flower farmers, feral pigs, Hawaiian cowboys and Princes-at-polo squeeze into the same few square miles on a Sunday.

Shangrila, The Doris Duke Estate

Where energy heiresses recreate Islamic estates overlooking the ocean.

Leonard's Bakery, Kapahulu St.,  for malasadas

Where everyone's very favorite food is a Portuguese doughnut without a hole.

Did I mention the flowers?

Waimea Bay, North Shore, Oahu

Where humans can spend afternoons swimming alongside giant sea turtles.

And dragon dancers will turn up at your wedding-by-the-sea.

Royal Hawaiian Hotel, Oahu

Where it's always o.k. for your hotel to be PINK.  Some call it exotic.  But I call it home.

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