 |
|
|
||
|
Hawaiian Cruise Information and Specials |
||||
|
|
||||
|
|
|
|
||
|
Hawaii Cruises |
||||
| Hawaii - the Aloha State - welcomes and seduces visitors with its frangipani-scented sea breezes and tropical warmth. This is where East merges with West in a blur of hula and disco, soap operas and creation myths, junk food and Japanese tea ceremonies, and Shinto shrines and surf clubs. Mark Twain declared Hawaii to be 'the loveliest fleet of islands that lies anchored in any ocean', and not even thirty years of mass tourism have managed to prove him wrong. The native flora and fauna species of these isolated islands evolved with limited competition and few predators, so has fared particularly badly against more aggressive species introduced by early Polynesian settlers and Westerners. The islands are home to thousands of species, but of the 2400 native plant species remaining, almost half are endangered. It's a happier story in the sea. Hawaiian monk seals, dolphins and whales are year-round residents, though it's the huge, migrating humpback whales that everyone wants to see. Hawaii has only two national parks - Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and Haleakala National Park. The climate in Hawaii is fantastic. It's balmy and warm, with northeasterly trade winds prevailing most of the year. Near the coast, average highs are a pleasant 80°F (27°C), and the difference between summer and winter average temperatures is a meager five or 10 degrees. | ||||
|
|
||||
|
|
||||
|
|
||||
 |
||||
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
|
|||
| © 2005 Luxury-Norwegian-Princess-NCL-Cruises-Lines.com | |||