Rounding out the top five spots are Zurich, Auckland and Munich (which tie for third spot), Vancouver and Dusseldorf in Germany.
Editors indexed destinations under ten broad, conversation-starter categories, such as most Instagrammed, dog-friendly, caffeinated, sudsiest and hipster-friendly.
Nine days are hardly enough to explore the beauty and serenity of Hawaii. This 50th state of America, after all, consists of eight different islands, each with its own natural attractions.
The Hawaii of our imagination—fed by movies like “50 First Dates,” “Blue Crush,” “Forgetting Sarah Marshall”—looks a lot like the Hawaii of my vacation. Pristine beaches, crystalline waters, good-looking people with a kind word for tourists, and beautiful plants—everywhere you look, it’s a tropical paradise.
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With my bare hands, I helped build Hawaii,” declares Lilo Bonipasyo, a sakada or migrant laborer who sailed to Hawaii in 1925, in the book by Filipino-Hawaiian scholar Virgilio Menor Felipe, “Hawai’i: A Pilipino Dream.”
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