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16 Tours in Hawaii

Big Island Candies
Hilo, HI

Big Island Candies was established in 1977 with one sole purpose - to create the finest macadamia nut chocolates and cookies found anywhere in the world today. All of our chocolates and cookies are handmade starting with the finest ingredients, such as high-grade chocolate, island eggs, and premium 100% Hawaii-grown macadamia nuts. All the attention we give to each piece of our handmade chocolates and cookies is what makes Big Island Candies? A True Hawaiian Classic!
Big Island Candies is a special company. It is a company whose facilities, methods of operation, and employees define the meaning of the spirit ...
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Mauna Loa (Macadamia Nuts)
Hilo, HI

Hilo isn't on the main tourist trail in Hawaii -- but it's well worth a trip, especially so you can visit us! Our plantations, headquarters, factory and factory store are all less than 10 minutes from the Hilo airport (drive south on Highway 11, then left on Macadamia Road at our sign.)

Mauna Loa's primary business is producing whole, roasted, lightly salted macadamia nuts, vacuum packed in jars, cans and foil packets. Among the additional macadamia nut products are Chocolate Covered Macadamia Nuts, Glazed Macadamia Nuts, Savory Macadamia Nuts, Macadamia Cookies, and Honey Roasted Macadamia Nuts. Plus, Mauna Loa now ...
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Holualoa Kona Coffee Company
Holualoa, HI

We welcome you to visit us in historic Holualoa
for free coffee plantation tours and coffee tastings.

On the gentle upland slopes overlooking the Kona coast, just 10 minutes from Kailua-Kona on historic Mamalahoa Highway. You'll enjoy the scenic drive through the prized Kona coffee belt.

Owners Desmond and Lisen Twigg-Smith invite you to experience Kona's bountiful Kona coffee harvest on their family farm.

Learn what makes one of the world's finest coffees from the tree to the cup.

In addition to roasting their own estate coffee, this thriving mill and roasting operation handles coffee for more than ...
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Ueshima Coffee Company
Holualoa, HI

Tadao Ueshima started Ueshima Coffee Company in Japan in 1933 in order to revolutionize a new coffee trend in a country of tea drinkers. He sought to bring the taste of great coffees to Japan and helped spur Japan to be the third largest consuming nation of coffee in the world. Ueshima Coffee Company is now the largest provider of coffee products in Japan and with this growth is in a position to provide the high quality, great coffee taste that brings a "Good Coffee Smile" to the faces of coffee lovers the world over. As a part of bringing ...
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Aloha Fish Tours
Honolulu, HI

Tag along with our tour guides to learn about the tropical fish export business and what companies do to protect the coral reef. This unique behind-the-scenes salt-water tropical fish warehouse experience shows you how a colorful fish and invertebrates travels across the world to an aquarium, pet store, or research facility perhaps in your town.
Did you know that our fish travel in triple layer plastic bags with ocean water and pure oxygen?

Aloha Fish Tours is a unique tropical fish factory tour. You'll be able to see hundreds of colorful animals in factory warehouse and learn about their ...
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Maui Divers
Honolulu, HI

MAUI DIVERS STARTED IN 1958 AS A DIVE SHOP GIVING SCUBA TOURS ON THE ISLAND OF MAUI.

Your 20 minute guided tour begins with a brief stop at the exhibit area. There you will see the unique CORAL TREES in their natural state, and hear the tail of the YACHT bound for TAHITI, and how it's fateful voyage played a special part in Maui Divers' history. You will also see how our unique Jewelry Designs have evolved since 1958.

Comfortably seated in one of our many plush air-conditioned theaters you will view a short film which highlights ...
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Kona Brewing Company
Kailua Kona, HI

Kona Brewing Company was started by father and son team Cameron Healy and Spoon Khalsa. The pair had a dream to create fresh, local island brews made with spirit, passion and quality. Their love of Hawaii, and a desire to protect the pristine environment here, brought them to the Big Island to fulfill their vision. Kona Brewing continues to be headquartered right where it began, in Kailua-Kona on Hawaii's Big Island.

The brewery began brewing and packaging beer in February 1995. Since that first year, beer production at the Kona facility has increased every year by a total of 585 ...
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Original Hawaiian Chocolate Factory
Kailua-Kona, HI

Welcome to Kona, and the most exotic chocolate on earth ~ exclusively from Original Hawaiian Chocolate Factory.

When we moved to our 6-acre orchards and home overlooking the Kona coastline in 1997 from North Carolina, fulfilling our dream to live where the mountains meet the sea, we dedicated ourselves to creating the finest products ~ Kona Coffee, and now 100% Hawaiian Chocolate. There is something about our volcanic soil, Island showers and tropical Hawaiian sun that blesses our crops with unique flavor that is world renowned.
This is especially true with our totally unique chocolate. We are ...
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Kauai Coffee
Kalaheo, HI

Kauai Coffee got its start in the early 1800s as McBryde Sugar Company, one of the first sugar growers in Hawaii. The transformation from McBryde Sugar Company to Kauai Coffee in 1987 represents Hawaii's largest diversified agricultural project in the past 50 years.

The Kauai Coffee venture experienced a severe setback in 1992, when Hurricane Iniki inflicted $8.5 million in damages to the coffee crop. The future of Kauai Coffee, and all of Kauai, looked bleak. Fortunately, both made a comeback, and in 1996, Kauai Coffee's harvest exceeded the volume of coffee produced by the entire Kona region.


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Mountain Thunder Coffee Plantation (Kaloko)
Kaloko Mauka, HI

Mountain Thunder has been in business for over ten years, so relatively speaking we are new, but we have grown over the years to become one of the major players in the world of Kona Coffee. And yes, Mountain Thunder is one of the most prestigious Kona Coffee companies around. We opt to be certified by several different entities looking at the way we process our coffee organically, where and who we buy our coffee from--is it really Kona Coffee? The agencies that are continuously looking at us are the State of Hawaii Department of Agriculture for Kona Coffee authenticity ...
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Gay & Robinson Sugar Plantation
Kaumakani, HI

The Visitor Center is the Field Office of the operating sugar plantation located on the west side of Kaua?i. Displays show the history of Gay & Robinson Inc., Olokele Sugar Co., Hawaiian Sugar Co. (a k a Makaweli Plantation) and Makaweli Ranch. Both historical and modern field and factory operations as followed in Hawai?i, and various artifacts are also exhibited. A world sugar map showcases sugar politics and current events.


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Kona Joe Coffee LLC
Kealakekua, HI

Aloha from Kona Joe, where we grow our 100% pure Kona Coffee on a trellis using the same techniques as the world's finest vineyards!

Kona Joe is the world's first trellised coffee plantation, and Kona Joe has the patent to prove it!

Our Kona Coffee products include; Estate Trellised Kona, Kainaliu Kona Joe Coffee, Peaberry Kona Coffee, Espresso, Decaf Kona Coffee, our world famous JammerS - as well as Kona Coffee Gifts and our own line of Kona Joe Mugs and Signature clothing.

Kona Joe puts his name (and reputation) on everything he sells. He wants you to ...
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Mountain Thunder Coffee Plantation (Kainaliu)
Kealakekua, HI

Mountain Thunder has been in business for over ten years, so relatively speaking we are new, but we have grown over the years to become one of the major players in the world of Kona Coffee. And yes, Mountain Thunder is one of the most prestigious Kona Coffee companies around. We opt to be certified by several different entities looking at the way we process our coffee organically, where and who we buy our coffee from--is it really Kona Coffee? The agencies that are continuously looking at us are the State of Hawaii Department of Agriculture for Kona Coffee authenticity ...
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Big Wind Kite Factory
Manualoa, Molokai, HI

Aloha and Welcome to the BIG WIND KITE FACTORY Handmade Kites and Windsocks from Hawaii.

All of our kites and windsocks are made here on molokai from nylon. We use fiberglass spars for the kites and the hoops of the windsocks are made with poly tubing. All edges not fully hemmed are cut with a hot knife to seal the edges.

While you are on Molokai please be sure to drop by for our free factory tours. We will give away all of our secrets, tell a few corny jokes and direct you to the best kite flying ...
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Tedeschi Vineyards
Ulupalakua, HI

Located in one of the most historic buildings on the island of Maui. The King's Cottage dates to 1874, when it was built specifically for the visit of Hawaii's monarch David Kalakaua and queen Kapi'olani. During his turbulent reign, which began that year and lasted until his death 1891, Hawai'i's last king often came to Ulupalakua find peace of mind.
The centerpiece of the Tasting Room is an eighteen-foot-long bar cut from the trunk of a single mango tree. Shelves are stocked with Hawaiian-made products and specialty foods and gifts.

The Tasting Room provides packaging to make it ...
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Dole Plantation
Wahiawa, HI

Originally opened as a fruit stand in 1950, it reopened to the public as Hawaii?s "Pineapple Experience" in 1989 after an extensive remodeling of its previous facilities. In May of 1997, Dole Plantation completed a $125,000 interior renovation that simulates building facades patterned after old Haleiwa Town.

Dole Plantation welcomes nearly one million visitors a year. Guests of Dole Plantation enjoy a variety of attractions and activities including the Pineapple Express, the Pineapple Garden Maze, the Guinness Book of World Records 2001 World's Largest Maze, informational displays and presentations about pineapple and the history of Dole, and the plantation center, ...
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