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Oahu Circle Island Tour: Snorkel, Shrimp, and Legends
4.6
55 Ratings
Honolulu
Embark on a comprehensive Oahu Circle Island Tour with a local guide. Explore top attractions, indulge in delicious food, and immerse yourself in the rich culture and history of Oahu. Become a local in just one day!
Embark on a comprehensive Oahu Circle Island Tour with a local guide. Explore top attractions, indulge in delicious food, and immerse yourself in the rich culture and history of Oahu. Become a local in just one day!
Duration:
8 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Waikiki Beach - Pickup and departure from Waikiki.
- Diamond Head Crater - We begin our adventure at the iconic Diamond Head crater scenic lookout. It mark where Amelia Earhart took her solo flight from Honolulu to California. No hiking involved, We drive around the volcano and stop to view from its scenic lookout.
- Halona Blowhole -…
- Waikiki Beach - Pickup and departure from Waikiki.
- Diamond Head Crater - We begin our adventure at the iconic Diamond Head crater scenic lookout. It mark where Amelia Earhart took her solo flight from Honolulu to California. No hiking involved, We drive around the volcano and stop to view from its scenic lookout.
- Halona Blowhole - Watch an extinct lave tube blows up like a geyser 40-50 feet into the air every time the waves crashes on it. Layer beyond layers of volcanic extinctions can be seen here.
- Sandy Beach Park - Famous for bodyboard surfing.
- Waimanalo Beach - Gorgeous white soft sand beaches that stretches for miles.
- Makapu’u Point - One of the most beautiful view from this scenic lookout point at Oahu southern most tip. Cliff drop-offs from 700-2000 feet below.
- Byodo-In Temple - Cross a beautiful bridge and ring a Giant peace and prosperity bell. Walk thru an ancient temple replica from Japan. Feed the Koi Fish and enjoy the serenity of the surrounding Ko’olau mountain.
- Tropical Farms (The Macadamia Nut Farm Outlet) - Enjoy some complimentary morning Kona coffee and Macadamia nuts samples. Try them all. Crack your first Mac nuts under a huge Mac nut tree in the back of the welcome center.
- Mokoli’i Island - Commonly known as Chinaman’s Hat island. Do some fun and wild photo ops here.
- Kualoa Ranch - It’s where they filmed a lot of major movies and shows i.e Jurassic movies, King Kong, 51st Dates, Lost, Hawaii 5.0..Etc.
- Kahuku - Lunch time. Enjoy the best Garlic butter shrimps on the planet. We stop at a shrimp stand next to the ponds where jumbo shrimps are farmed on the North Shore.
- Kahuku Farms - Tropical fruit stands. Enjoy some fresh ice cold coconuts from local farmers. Seasonal fruits such as lychee, dragon fruits, bananas, mangoes, pineapple are available.
- Sunset Beach - Famous for its beautiful sunset and many surfing competitions held during the winter months.
- Waimea Bay - This North shore beach is famous for “The Eddie’s” big wave surfing during the winter season. Waves can reach dangerously high of over +50ft during the winter months.
- Waimea Valley - Waimea Vally Botanical Garden is a botanical garden full of history and culture. Wild plants, flowers, and trees are native to Hawaii. There is a waterfall at the end of the trail.
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Turtle Beach - It’s time to swim or snorkel with our Hawaiian green sea turtles at their natural habitat. Remember to bring your towel and sunscreen. Public restroom is available at the beach.
Snorkel gears and life jacket is included. - Haleiwa - Drive thru this fame north shore beach town. Popular with locals and pro surfers for its historic township and launching point to all the famous surfing beaches.
- Dole Plantation - Check out how pineapple are grown, Enjoy the famous Dole whip, pineapple ice cream. Walk the garden in the back of the welcome center
- Green World Coffee Farms - Check out some of Hawaii’s finest coffee. Taste a sample. Before we head back to Waikiki.
- Waikiki - We arrive back home before sunset.after an epic day.
What's Included
- Professional Local guide
- Bottled water
- Snacks
- Use of snorkeling equipment
- In-vehicle air conditioning
- Local Guide Narrations
- All fees and/or taxes
- Professional Local guide
- Bottled water
- Snacks
- Use of snorkeling equipment
- In-vehicle air conditioning
- Local Guide Narrations
- All fees and/or taxes
What's Not Included
- Lunch
- Gratuities
- Lunch
- Gratuities
Additional Information
We take our guest in a semi-private bus with A/C. Our professional local tour guides will share their invaluable cultural and historical knowledge on each stops and as you travel around the island. You will learn about the folklores and legends of Oahu thru the narrations by our native guide. This is the most comprehensive and fun circle island tour on…
We take our guest in a semi-private bus with A/C. Our professional local tour guides will share their invaluable cultural and historical knowledge on each stops and as you travel around the island. You will learn about the folklores and legends of Oahu thru the narrations by our native guide. This is the most comprehensive and fun circle island tour on Oahu. You will hit nearly all the top attractions and point of interests.
-Enjoy the best garlic butter shrimps on the North shore
-Snorkel with turtles at the popular North shore turtle beach
-Enjoy a Dole pineapple ice cream
-Hangout with giant sea turtles
-Walk thru an ancient Japanese Byodo temple
-Sample some fresh macadamia nuts and Hawaiian coffee
-Sip on ice cold coconuts
and…More.
-You will become an instant local in just 1 day on this tour. Come and experience why this tour is Next-Level.
- The tour is approximately 6 to 7 hours and the travel time going to and from and in between the locations is around 3 hours.
- What to bring? Some cash for lunch and fruit stands, towel, sunscreen, swimwear, and camera. Swimming is optional.
Location
Club Wyndham Royal Garden at Waikiki
ʻOlohana Street
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.6
(55 Ratings)
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Rebecca_b
Oct 5, 2024
What a great tour guide Aka - One of the best tours I’ve ever been on!!! Aka was so informative and entertaining. Loved hearing his personal story plus all the history!!! He way exceeded our expectations!!!🥰🥰🥰
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Michael_c
Sep 25, 2024
Wonderful experience! - The tour was great. Uncle “D” was our tour guide who was passionate about his island and his culture. He brought the history of Oahu to life!
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Linda_b
Sep 24, 2024
Aka was the best guide for the Oahu tour! - Aka was our tour guide and he provided us with amazing views as well as provided the history at all our stops and along our way. It was enjoyable to see and learn while we were on the island of Oahu. Aka was very kind and informative and we absolutely loved the tour that he provided. We couldn't have asked for a better guide! He shared his culture and heritage and we learned a lot from him. Thank you Aka!!!
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Trail453506
Sep 22, 2024
Circle Island excellence - We had a really good time. Pat was excellent and took really good care of us. Just right number of stops and Keith was a great driver.
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Sheryll_a
Sep 4, 2024
Justin was the best part of the tour! - Justin was the best tour guide we could’ve asked for! Mahalo to Justin, we were able to enjoy great views all around the island and have great experiences, along with learning about the historical and cultural contexts that Justin provided all throughout the tour. Justin is intelligent, knowledgeable, and articulate when it comes to talking about the history of Hawaii and history in general. He talks about complex historical events in a very digestible, cohesive, and enjoyable way. He also talks about the most interesting things about Hawaiian culture. You will definitely learn a lot from Justin. Along with that, he is also friendly, funny, helpful, and a good driver. It’s very obvious that he is passionate about his home, his culture, and what he does as a tour guide. I did this tour with my siblings, but I would do it again with my boyfriend and his family, as long as I had Justin as our tour guide again! I wish him the best and more, and overall would recommend this tour to everyone!
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Karman_h
Aug 22, 2024
Our tour guide, Justin,... - Our tour guide, Justin, was a great tour guide providing hours of narrated miles. We saw a lot of tourist landmarks of the island.
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Sundeep_s
Aug 21, 2024
A fun day around the island! - Thanks Justin for an AWESOME experience! The entire tour was sooo seamless & perfectly timed. It was a great way to experience different parts of the island and learn Hawaiian history along the way. Loved being able to swim in Waimea Falls! Great look out point stops along the way!
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Y8211lzsandraw
Oct 1, 2024
Tour was okay, but was the most disappointing of all the tours/trips I did in Hawai'i - When I signed up for this trip it was advertised as max 20 in the group. Imagine my disappointment when I ended up on a full sized bus with 49 people on it. When you do a stop for 15 minutes you are barely off the bus before you need to be back on it. At every stop the guide and driver had a discussion on how much time to allow. I would think they would already know that! At the Byodo-in Temple we were told as we were pulling in that we needed to go on line on our phones and pay for our entrance. Some people had trouble so lost time at that stop. Twice our guide was late getting on the bus! A few weeks before the trip we were contacted and told that the Waimea valley, waterfall and botanical gardens were no longer one of the stops due to a change in the rules regarding buses no longer being allowed in.
If you don't have a car, a trip like this will get you around to the east and north side of the island and you will see some amazing scenery. But know that there are at least 6-8 companies that do this and most of them stop in the same places around the same time, so places get crowded, bathroom lines get long, and all of them pick up in the same places in the morning so there is a lot of confusion getting everyone on the right bus. I will say lunch was pretty well organized.
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Susan_m
Sep 26, 2024
It’s a very long day. Good to see other parts of the Island, but you are taken to small shops with gift stores. - It’s a very long day - it’s good to see other parts if the Island but you are taken to a lot of small gift stores instead of seeing how things work like dolce and coffee plantation.
Our driver was terrific but the bus was terrible the aircon was barely working and people at the back of the bus got dropped on from the aircon vent above. Suspension on the bus needed replacement - probably better just getting an all day bus pass and checking out the sites yourself
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77bonzo
Sep 28, 2024
Wouldn’t recommend!! Not a good value for the - Tour was disappointing!!
1. A text was sent to me the day before telling me to meet at the Duke statue at 7:02 am The morning of the tour at 6:20 am I received an email telling me to meet at 6:50 am at a particular avenue. Not being familiar with the area I wasn’t aware that the statue was on the avenue.
The tour overall was amateurish and I wouldn’t recommend. We didn’t see any turtles in this “turtle tour”. The guide babbled and the driver didn’t acknowledge the guests!!
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