Roberts Hawaii Shore Excursions - Oahu Sugar Tour
This tour is currently unavailable for booking on our site. Please visit our Oahu Tours and Activities page for other available options.On this tour you will get to learn about one plant that helped shaped Hawaii's history. Another plant that represents sweetness, struggle, sacrifice and accomplishment and the third plant - sugarcane - that has had influence on the islands from medicinal and ceremonial uses to its place in island cuisine.
You will also learn about historic insights throughout this tour and the thriving sugarcane industry. Learn more about the canoe plant on the guided tour through the heart of Oahu's agricultural area.
Highlights:
Leonard's Malasadamobile:
- Hawaii's original malasada bakery. They started making malasadas, a Portuguese doughnut without a hole, in 1953 for Shrove Tuesday.
Hawaii's Plantation Village:
- Operated by the educational non-profit Friends of Waipahu Cultural Garden Park
- Experience what a typical plantation camp might've looked like
- Hear the story of Hawaii's plantation history, the hardships, adjustments and achievements of early plantation workers and generations that followed
- One hour guided tour
- Hawaii's Plantation Village: not all areas are ADA accessible
Ko Hana Rum:
- A guided tour at a local distillery of farm to bottle Ko Hana Agricole Rum
- Specializes in growing and crafting single varietals of native Hawaiian sugarcane into one of the world's finest pure can rums
- Try a glass of fresh pressed cane juice
- Wander through a garden of native Hawaiian sugarcanes
- Enjoy views of Diamond Head, Pearl Harbor and Wai'anae Mountains
- One hour guided tour; rum tasting with lite lunch
- Ko Hana Rum: Garden tour has uneven terrain and the overlook is not ADA accessible