In Pahala

Pahala itself is a small town, with some convenience stores and a public library. You'll find a Tex Drive In here to fill all your Hawaiian fast food needs. In addition, the Wood Valley Temple, visited by the Dalai Lama, is right down the road, through a grove of macadamia nut trees.

Pahala was once an active sugar plantation town that employed many of the locals. Since the plantation closed, many now commute to other parts of the island for employment while others have ventured into private businesses, like growing coffee for exporting to the mainland.

That peaceful land, that beautiful land, that far-off home of solitude and soft idleness, and repose, and reams, where life is one long slumberous Sabbath, the climate one long summer day, and the good that die experience no change, for they but fall asleep in one heaven and wake up in another.
- Mark Twain on Hawaii

South of Pahala

Green Sand Beach

The Green Sand Beach near Ka Lae.
The road to Ka Lae is 30 minutes away.

If you take off driving south from the cottage, you'll soon find yourself driving north again, around the bottom of the island. Here are the times to some Big Island attractions:

10 minutes Punalu'u Black Sand Beach
where you can see the turtles
20 minutes Na'alehu visit the
Punalu'u Bakery
30 minutes Turnoff for Ka Lae
(southernmost point in the U.S.
and the Green Sand Beach)
1 hour, 45 minutes Kailua Bay/Kona -- shops, restaurants, Hula Shows, market place, swimming, museums or coffee plantations on the way to Kona
2 hour, 30 minutes Waikoloa Resort -- swim with the dolphins, boat ride through the resort, golfing, etc.

North of Pahala

If you take off driving north from the cottage, you'll soon be surrounded by the splendor of nature:

30 minutes Entrance to Volcano National Park
1 hour Hilo -- Lyman Mission House Museum, Liliuokalani Gardens,
Coconut Island, Rainbow Falls
1 hour, 30 minutes Umauma (Akaka Falls)

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