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The interior of the Big Island comes as a surprise: pastoral meadows
roll over gentle hills where once stood forests of sandalwood. This is
cattle-ranching country, most of it - ten percent of the island - owned
by the United States's largest private ranch, the Parker Ranch .
WAIMEA (also known as Kamuela ) is not the company town it once was -
the Parker Ranch now employs just one hundred of its eight thousand
inhabitants - but more of a sophisticated country-town resort, which
retains traces of its cowboy past. Though you can no longer tour the
ranch itself, the ranch has an interesting visitor center (Mon-Sat
9am-5pm; $6) in town; the nearby Kamuela Museum is enjoyably eclectic
and eccentric, with an extensive range of ancient Hawaiian artifacts (daily
8am-5pm; $5).
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from $275.00
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