Home Rula Repubalika, Volume I, Number 4, 13 November 1901 — PACIFIC HEIGHTS. [ARTICLE]

PACIFIC HEIGHTS.

Few cities 111 the world can boast of as many scenic attractions 111 the same area as Honolulu. Waikiki, Diamond Ilead and Kapiolani Park are but an hour from the center of town. Moanalua's magnificent landscape gardening is about the same distance. The world-renowned Nuu anu Pali is but an hour and a half from the harbor over a most attractive and excellent macadamized road. The less accessible places, such as the head of Pauoa Valley and Pearl harbor, present sights well worth the trip, but the easiest, most comfortable and quickest way to see them all is to take a Pacific Heights electric car at the end of the Nuuanu tramway. It is safe to say that five cents never was able to give pleasure in the Hawaiian Islands as a nickel spent in a ride up to where Desky's powerful naval searchlight attracts attention of all the residents of the city. , By day or night the trip is equally delightful and the view excellent. Both day .ind night the cars are filled with those who want the benefit of the higher altitudes and purer atmosphere. The ravine between Nuuanu street and the foot of the heights is a revelation. The winding roadway up the heights proper is full of surprises. But the climax is reached when the car stops at the quaint Japanese teahouse at the upper end of the line. Here all kinds of temperance refreshments are served. By an easy footpath still further heights are accessible. From this point, Pearl Harbor spreads out as a map. Diamond Head cuts the sky on one side and Punchbowl's dishy slopes lie many feet below. In the other direction the incomparable coloring of the sky where they meet the peaks of the mountains at the 'icad of Pauoa Valley and Nuuanu Valley make a picture no painter has ever been *ible to accurately reproduce. A residence on such a spot is an incomparable boon to any city, and to tropical Honolulu it is almost the "seventh heaven" in the Paradise of the Pacific