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SMH - Travel |
 | | Waikiki wasn't always like this, with a Legoland of 33,000 hotel rooms overlooking the beach, and its fabled surf a logjam of big mals (longboards), hire boards, canoes and honeymooners. |
 | | Waikiki means "spouting water", and in pre-colonial times this area, lush with fishponds and food gardens, was a haven for both royalty and commoners. |
 | | The section of Waikiki called Gray's Beach, near the Halekulani and Outrigger Reef hotels, was known to early Hawaiians as a place of healing, of strong mana where the sick and injured came to bathe and be treated by kahuna physicians. |
| www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/05/30/1054177720552.html (2088 words) |
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