Travel Guide Waipio Valley

Surrounded by 620 m high mountains, the Waipio Valley was once greatly appreciated by the Hawaiian monarchs who established their residence. Thanks to the constant irrigation of the valley by the Waipio River, nature is generous and many fruit trees prosper there; you can pick mango, goyaves and coconut to will!While the valley is almost uninhabited today, it was one of the most populated areas of the island from the th to the th century. The capital of the island in sum. The population then lived essentially from the culture culture (Hawaiian potato) that gradually gave way to the rainforest that we're seeing now, even though there are still some taro fields. The tsunami of 1946, which hit the valley hard, caused most of the inhabitants of this region to flee definitively, gradually gradually sauvage (for the greatest happiness of tourists!).