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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Sunday, January 6, 2008

Top spots of Hawaii

Advertiser Staff

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The sun sets on Haleakala National Park and "Science City."

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HAWAI'I'S BEST PLACES CONTEST

Deadline: Feb. 1. And if you've got photos — sharp hard copies or digital files (jpeg or tiff), we'd love to have them (and we'll pay for their use).

Nominees for Na Wahi Heke/Hawai'i's Best Places to Travel can be e-mailed — wadams@honoluluadvertiser.com; faxed, 525-8055; or mailed, Honolulu Advertiser, P.O. Box 3110, Honolulu, HI 96802.

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A bird-tour group views Kawai Nui Marsh from a rock outcropping.

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Haleakala National Park's 'Ohe'o pools.

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Molokini Islet, between Kaho'olawe and Maui.

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A silversword graces the slopes of Haleakala.

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A rainbow forms over Makua Valley with a lone fisherman in the foreground along the west side of O'ahu.

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Hawaiian poetry, chant and song often celebrate places.

If you were a composer, what place would you commemorate, and what would you praise about it?

Which storied spot would you nominate to a list of Na Wahi Heke — Hawai'i's Best Places?

Help us find it and we'll help you get there, with a pair of air tickets to the Neighbor Islands, to be awarded to a name randomly drawn from among those who participate in our effort to identify Hawai'i's top 25 spots to visit before you die.

Would you choose a grand landscape, like Maui's Haleakala Crater or Kaua'i's Waimea Canyon?

A windy headland on the Big Island's South Point or O'ahu's Ka'ena?

The peek-a-view cliff road to Maui's Kahakuloa, or along Hawai'i's Hamakua Coast?

A secret fishing or diving spot off Lana'i, or the keyhole of Molokini?

This special travel feature will appear March 2.

Send us 250 words naming the place, how to get there, and why it's your nominee. Include your name, the neighborhood in which you live and a daytime phone number (for our use only; it will not be printed).

Please: no "secret" places — one you won't tell us how to get to — or places we're not supposed to go, those that must be accessed through private or posted lands or locked gates. It is OK to discuss places with limited legal access, such as certain preserves where hiking is regulated, and so on.