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Before we can hike, we must chant. Kikei, our guide, has us toeing an invisible line in the grass beyond which tourists shall not tread. It’s the threshold to a lava-rock point jutting into the foam-tipped sapphire waves, a still-sacred ancient heiau. We puff out a series of synchronized ha “breaths of life.” “Just to ask permission to be here,” Kikei says.
This ritual feels right on Oahu’s west side, just a short drive from the gated Ko Olina resort area.
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