Kualoa Ranch is a 4,000 acre ranch about 40 minutes up the coast from where I live. You’re probably already familiar with the scenery as it is where Jurassic Park, Lost, Pearl Harbor, Jumanji, and Finding ‘Ohana among others were filmed. Jess had family visiting and they wanted to take this tour and she asked if I wanted to come so I joined!
We took a two hour ATV tour and got to see all parts of the ranch.
We started by passing around the mountains where there was a WWII bunker built into the mountain… seven stories high!
We then ventured into the valley where the Jurassic park scene with all the dinosaurs roaming was “filmed”. Simply beautiful.
Honestly, besides the couple really pretty landscape pictures and fun movie scenes, I thought the tour was just OK. First, we’re not sure if it’s because of the lack of rain or…? But the roads were SO dusty. We were COVERED by the time we returned, and so was all my stuff. This picture doesn’t do it justice, but you get the idea.
You can see it on our faces!
Next, we didn’t really get a lot of “tour” from our tour guide… he mostly just lead the pack. We heard a couple stories of Hawaiian tales and barely anything more than “this was the scene where…” and there are plaques with the same information. Here are a couple more “scenes”.
We made our way around the other side and saw the views from that angle and a few more scenes.
Jess did great driving.
There are all sorts of tours here and maybe I’ll go back if an opportunity arises. But I’d like to have a more informational tour and WAY less dust. Normally shaka power poses are reserved for the top of a hike, but Jess feels that we survived the dust so we earned it.
