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On the green slopes of
Kohala Mountain
, at the northern tip of the Big Island, traditional plantation towns such as
HAWI
survive virtually unchanged - run-down in an appealing sort of way, the
all-purpose stores still floored with creaking planks. Call in at the
spacious Bamboo Restaurant and Bar
(tel 808/889-5555) to enjoy one of the friendliest and most Hawaiian restaurants in the state.
Polulu Valley
, where North Kohala's main artery, Hwy-270, comes to a dead end, is
the last of the chain of inaccessible valleys, and for the moment is
every bit as pristine as Waipio. The fear of tsunami , which led the Hawaiians to abandon these once
densely populated valleys, is probably their best defense against the
rapacity of the developers.
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Kohala Mountain 
