There’s music in the air on Hawaii

Bruno Mars said “Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there’s music in the air there”. While I, just like Bruno, don’t speak any Hawaiian, there is something magical about listening to an Hawaiian song. It captures you and brings you right back to that state of peace, a vacation mindset filled with the stillness, the sea and the stars. Basically, if you haven’t visited Hawaii, you haven’t been to paradise.

Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace.
Paul Theroux

I really enjoy spending time at the beach, but a trip isn’t complete without inhaling some of the cultural goodness a destination has to offer as well. For that reason, staying on an all-inclusive resort where you’re literally confined to the resort boundaries (as they’re usually situated in the middle of nowhere) is something that I only enjoy for a very limited amount of time, if at all. Preferably I’d like to pick a few places I want to visit, which in addition to old city centers and hidden churches al…