HAWAII@ WaiKiKi Beach Tour by Suwapat

History A statue of Duke Kahanamoku, a local Hawaiian credited with popularizing the sport of surfing The area was a retreat for Hawaiian royalty in the 1800s. Much like the locals and tourists of today, Hawaiian royalty enjoyed surfing at Waik?k? on early forms of longboards.[2] A few small hotels opened in the 1880s. In 1893, Greek-American George Lycurgus leased the guest house of Allen Herbert and renamed it the “Sans Souci” (French for “without care”) creating one of the first beach …