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Enjoy Hawaii with the movie

TripBlog
TripBlog
Oct 23, 2019

Catalogue

  • Oahu Island: 50 First Dates
  • Kualoa Ranch: Jurassic Park
  • Kauai Island: Pirates of the Caribbean 4
  • Maui Island: Point Break
  • Lahaina Town: Forrest Gump
  • Hawaii Island: Moana
  • Oahu Island
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When coming to Hawaii for the first time, you always look for all kinds of sunshine beaches and believe that Hawaii is a romantic place for young people to witness love. Hawaii has everything you desire from luxuriantly rainforest to volcanic deserts and from snowy mountains to beautiful black sand beaches. This is the favorite place for many Hollywood directors. Let’s have a look.



Oahu Island is a veritable great furnace collecting Hawaiian local traditional customs and Eastern and Western cultures. At the same time, there are various geographical features, all of which make it be a popular location for the Hollywood to find a view, which makes Oahu Island become more and more mysterious and interesting.

50 First Dates is filmed on Oahu Island. Henry, the hero in the film is a typical playboy and is best at flirting with girls in different identities and making them infatuated with him. As a veterinarian in Hawaii aquarium, Henry has endless romantic feelings to infect the beauty who comes here for leisure. This time, he fell in love with the heroine dining alone in the restaurant, and then the romantic story began.

Ukulele in the hero’s hand is a kind of plucked string instrument in Hawaii with a unique, fair-sounding and light tone.



Kualoa Ranch, located in Oahu Island, is a well-known scenic spot. It is a traditional cattle ranch and farm and is managed by a local Hawaiian family. Because of the beautiful scenery here, many films and TV plays have been shot here.

Although Kualoa Ranch is built to be a ranch place, it is famous for a film shooting place. The famous movies like Jurassic Park, Godzilla and Windtalkers are all filmed here. The wall of a cave left from the World War II is covered with still photos of films and TV plays taken here.

There is beautiful scenery and diverse landscapes in Kualoa Ranch from steep cliffs to sparkling sea, from lush tropical rainforest to open valleys and from beautiful white sand beaches to verdant precipice.

You can visit the bay and enjoy the delightful views of backing on mountain and facing to sea by boat. Turtles and coral reefs can be passed by along the way and you can see turtles and a variety of coral reefs.


Hanauma Bay is one of the must-saw scenic spots in Hawaii and it is famous for the snorkeling. There are rich sea creatures here with attractive scenery. Beautiful coral reefs are distributed here and make it a place where the tropical fishes inhabit the whole year.

When the sea surges onto the beach, you can see the fishes are swimming around you. You can dive into the sea to see the world of coral reefs and colorful tropical ocean fishes with goggles and diving snorkel.

In American film Blue Hawaii, the unforgettable and handsome Elvis Presley was singing at the seaside with a Ukulele and many generations of women were fascinated by him. And this scene was filmed at the famous Hanauma Bay.

If a boy wants to give his lover a surprise, he’d better take her to Hanauma Bay to recall this scene. Maybe you can neither play the Ukulele nor sing, but just holding hands and listening to waves is still romantic.

Enjoy Hawaii with the movie

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides successfully show Kauai Island of Hawaii to the public where there is special jungle, mountain and beautiful coastline. The jungle is lush covering a extremely large of area.

Kauai Island is located at the westernmost end of Hawaiian Islands and is known as the “Garden Island”, because it is a small island integrating cliff nests, water-jet stone holes, and colorful rocks. Kauai Island is also regarded as the “omnipotent background painting” by American film industry. The films of King Kong, Jurassic Park, Outbreak, Thorn Birds, Uncommon Valor and so on have been filmed here. Whether you in front of the screen have a feeling of deja vu.

Enjoy Hawaii with the movie

Maui Island is the second largest island in Hawaiian Islands and is also very popular to tourists after Oahu Island. The island is quite small, but a variety of tourism projects are provided to tourists with abundant options.

This is the paradise of outdoor sports enthusiasts where they can experience thrilling surfing, can go horse riding and cycling, can play golf and tennis, or can hike in the world’s largest extinct volcano-Haleakala Volcano. The scenery in the island is various and sundry from beaches bathing in the sun to rainy rainforest and from fertile valleys to desolate and barren volcanoes.

Here is preferred by directors certainly. The film about extreme sport Point Break was framed in Maui Island. The challenge to “water creatures” is to be done through extreme surfing. The showed location in the film is in the French sea in the South Pacific, but actually, it is completed in Maui Island, Hawaii.

Enjoy Hawaii with the movie

There is a famous town in western Maui Island - Lahaina Town which was the capital of Kingdom of Hawaii once. But it became famous actually because of the film Forrest Gump.

The town was an important base of Pacific whaling. When the whaling was at its peak, here was the resort place of sailors including Herman Melville whose classic Moby-Dick makes this era immortal. Therefore, many celebrities come here to visit the town.

Nowadays, many traditional architectures are reserved. When walking in the street, the buildings on both sides are simple but charming. That is why the director of Forrest Gump was attracted. In the film, the street where Gump runs is the Front St in the town, and the seaside of the town is the place where the Gump goes shrimping. Nowadays, they all become good selling points of Lahaina Town.

Enjoy Hawaii with the movie

The Disney film Moana loved by all of people is inspired by Hawaii. The cute scene of clapping of Moana and manta in the film took place exactly in Hawaii Island. The special sea areas of the Hawaii Island can breed the plankton preferred by the manta, so it is a good place to see them.

The Volcano Monster in the film is also inspired by the Hawaii Island. There are two volcanoes in the Hawaii Island. Kilauea Volcano is one of the most active volcanoes in the world, while the Mauna Kea Volcano is a dormant volcano. There is totally different scenery and appearances in these two volcanoes which are all amazing and worthy to experience.

There are abundant natural scenery and traces left by the volcanic eruption in the park. You can also appreciate the smoky volcanic crater, the lava flow, the desert, the verdant rainforest and the shocking coastal beach.

Enjoy Hawaii with the movie

This is a film starred by Chen Yanxi which tells a romantic, suspenseful and “brain burning” love story. Lily played by Chen Yanxi is a Chinese intern at a hospital in Hawaii, USA. She originally lived a romantic and happy life with her boyfriend Neil. However, her peaceful life was broken by a fatal car accident.

The film was framed in the beautiful Hawaii. The Pali Road in the English name is a famous local road around the Island and is also a place closely related to the development of the story.

Driving from downtown of Honolulu City on Oahu to the Windward Coast, you will pass the charming modern highway in Hawaii - Pali Highway. Going forward along the highway and passing through the giant trees and lush forests, when you finally arrive at the Pali Lookout, you will surprisingly find that the city’s hustle and bustle has disappeared and what appears in front of you is the tranquil beauty of Hawaii’s natural landscape.

Enjoy Hawaii with the movie

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