Back Roads of Oahu

Get off the beaten path on the educational and interactive Back Roads of Oahu tour. Experience many of the things that make Hawaii so unique.  This tour uses all 5 senses.  This one of a kind journey through time blends culture, history and agriculture beginning with native Hawaii living to Hawaii's plantation days of yesteryear through today's farming culture. See the largest producing watercress farm in Hawaii; then, sample a Portuguese donut (malasada) before heading to the north side of Oahu. Next, visit Helemano Plantation and walk through its garden filled with oranges, grapefruits, and coffee beans.  Sample fresh cut pineapples during a pineapple cutting demonstration.  Next head to Sunset Beach, a favorite local hangout. Visit Kahuku Farms, an exclusive destination for Roberts Hawaii, and learn a bit of Hawaiian farming history.  Taste Kahuku old papayas and apple bananas grown on their farm. Here is where a catered lunch will be served featuring ingredients grown from the farm. Afterwards, you will board the bus to reach Tropical Farms in Waikane where you can sample the wide variety of seasoned macadamia nuts prepared here daily. Drive by Sumida Watercress Farm.

Sights on the Back Roads of Oahu Tour includes: 

• Aiea - sample malasadas
• Stop at Helemano Plantation - fresh cut pineapples
• Hale'iwa, Waimea, Pupukea
• Kahuku Farms for apple bananas, papayas (subject to seasonality and availability of fruit grown) and lunch
• Lai'e, Hau'ula, Punalu'u, Kahana, Ka'a'awa
• Waikane Tropical Farm - macadamia nuts and Menehune Pond
• Waiahole, Kaneohe

Includes choice of lunch. Lunch includes an ice cold Hawaiian Sun Drink and a scoop of Kahuku Farms papaya sorbet. Choose between:

†Pulehu Marinated Beef served with "hapa" rice, local greens w/ Lilikoi vinaigrette featuring Kahuku Farms Lilikoi. Marinade features Kahuku papayas as a tenderizer, sugar, garlic,  Aloha shoyu, Hawaii orange grown at Kahuku Farms and green onions.

†North Shore Tomato Salad featuring North Shore vine-ripened tomatoes, fresh basil, fresh Mozzarella cheese, local greens and a lilikoi vinaigrette featuring Kahuku Farm's lilikoi.