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 Senator Fong's Plantation and Gardens
Open 10am to 2pm daily, closed Christmas & New Years. Tours at 10:30am & 1pm daily
Guided Garden Walk Tour departing area
Tour through the Plantation's valleys and plateaus filled with tropical fruit, palms, ferns, and fragrant flowers. Guides often give out fragrant flowers found along the trail, kukui nuts, or pick fruit right from the trees.
The Gardens, cover a total of 700 acres and rise from 80 feet above sea level to 2,600 feet at the top of the Ko'olau Mountains. It is larger than all of Waikiki. The Senator has divided the Plantation into five areas named after presidents he served with during his 17 years in the U.S. Senate.
This land, originally belonged to King Lunalilo. The land belonged to only one other person before Senator Fong purchased it in 1950. Much of the landscape you see today is the same as what early Polynesians saw hundreds of years ago, with forests of kukui, hala, koa,
and ohia-'ai (mountain apple). Ti and pili
grass still cover the slopes.
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