As I take a break from the book of medicine, I’d like to suggest something that has probably helped my peace of mind and my health and even my energy level more than possibly anything I’ve done in the last seven years.

It was a vacation to Hawaii.

You won’t find something like that in a medical book, but the concept of getting away from everything and relaxing is something that is widely recommended and historically has been recommended by many doctors. There’s something special about Hawaii, however it is difficult to describe.

About seven years ago I took a vacation to Hawaii and stayed in a beach condo. We rented a nice little place on the beach and stayed there for about 10 days.

It was a fantastic experience. Just recovering from jet lag by sleeping in the beach breeze was an experience that I still haven’t forgotten and probably never will. I learned to love mahi-mahi, I hiked up Diamond Head and several other small mountains in the area. Plus I went jogging several miles each day.

Oh and on my healthy Hawaiian vacation I also spent a lot of time in the water!

I am definitely going to go back to Hawaii someday soon. Knowing what I know today, I will probably try something a little different but stay focused on the same theme. I’ve been researching why Makena oceanfront condo and based on some of the pictures I’ve seen I think I’m definitely going to try them out.

Soaking up Ecotourism in Hawaii

While we were there the first time, we soaked up a lot of the local culture and the landscape.

In retrospect that seems essential to the concept of having a healthy Hawaii vacation. after all it wouldn’t be that healthy if we visited and harmed the environment or impaired the culture or did something damaging. It seems to me to be very important to visit a place and leave it as good as you found it and if possible maybe a little better.

This kind of touches on the theme of ecotourism. Ecotourism is the concept of visiting a place, and helping the local ecosystem and the local culture and possibly the local economy.

We did all those things when we visited, and that helped us make a longer lasting connection during our vacation. The last thing you want is to stay in some cold corporate hotel, the type of place that you can find anywhere in the world only to walk away from the vacation more drained than when you started. Kind of like eating at McDonalds.

We soaked up the culture and the history and the beauty of the environment and that’s what made our vacation special.