O'ahu Hawaii Travel Guide - LukeTravels.com - OAHU PHOTOS AND TOURIST GUIDE

KEWALO BASIN
- sampans and other fishing boats moor in this small boat harbor which is also the departure point for Pearl Harbor cruises. 

MISSION HOUSES - the oldest existing buildings erected by the first missionary contingent to Honolulu are in the civic center area, which is also locale of many other historic sites. 

NATIONAL MEMORIAL CEMETERY OF THE PACIFIC - Punchbowl or Puowaina, literally translated "Hill of Sacrifice" is the final resting place of thousands of World War II, Korean and Vietnam war veterans. Open seven days a week, it overlooks the vast expanse of Pearl Harbor, Honolulu and Waikiki. 

NUUANU PALI - Oahu's scenic masterpiece, at the head of Nuuanu Valley, is where Kamehameha the Great defeated the Oahuans in a bloody battle in 1795, by forcing thousands of warriors over the precipice, to meet death on the jagged rocks below, thus adding Oahu to his realm. 

OLD SUGAR MILL - near Kaaawa are the stone ruins of the first sugar mill on Oahu erected in 1864. 

PEARL HARBOR - the USS Arizona Memorial, above the sunken battleship, is a tribute to American fighting men killed during the attack on December 7, 1941. The USS Bowfin, a restored World War II submarine, is on exhibit next to the Arizona Memorial ground facility. 

POLYNESIAN CULTURAL CENTER AT LAIE - located on the north shore of Oahu, the center is made up of native villages representative of those in Fiji, Tonga, New Zealand, Tahiti, Samoa, Marquesas, and Hawaii.