Welcome to the Blog Of Hawaii. This photo blog will guide you through the wonderful state of Hawaii. As a frequent visitor and part time resident, I have collected many photographs of what many describe as our most beautiful state. As this blog progresses we will delve into them complete with essays that will provide tourist information, history and perhaps a few facts and figures.
As you work your way through this blog you will encounter a lot of Hawaiian words. I know how frustrating they can be so the first time a particular word is encountered in the text there will be this pronunciation key symbol after the word: If you hover your cursor over the key, a box with the English pronunciation will be shown. These are as I remember the way the locals pronounced various words and may differ slightly with Hawaiian dictionaries. BLOG OF HAWAII STORE
Byodo-in Temple
This entry was posted on 8/31/2006 5:49 PM and is filed under Oahu.
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I visited this temple last year. It's amazing. The Buddah statue was awesome. It's very peaceful there. Wished I lived closer to Kahaluu so I could go there more often Reply to this
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