Holualoa

Introduction

Holualoa is a historic village on the Kona coffee belt of the Big Island, sitting at about 430 m elevation along the old Mamalahoa Highway and rooted in coffee farming since the mid-1800s. Century-old wooden storefronts and lava-rock walls line the slow street, where galleries, coffee estates and craft studios interleave in a laid-back, artful mood. Each November the Kona Coffee Cultural Festival, one of Hawaii's oldest festivals, fills the town with parade, cupping competition and hula evoking plantation-era life. Surrounding farms of coffee and macadamia climb toward Hualalai volcano in drifting mist, making the village the best base for tasting "slow Hawaii" and a century of coffee culture.

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