Visit Dole Plantation, Oahu, Hawaii

5 THINGS TO DO WHILE AT DOLE PLANTATION:

1. Ride the Pineapple Express and take a tour.

2. Take the Plantation Garden Tour.

3. Browse the Plantation Country Store. It offers a wide variety of Dole Plantation gifts, souvenirs, packaged coffee, packaged fruits and local favorites. If you like you can buy or order fresh pineapples.

4. View or browse Dole Plantation informational displays and presentations.

5. Savor Dole Plantation foods and refreshments, including the world-famous DoleWhip® ice cream.

5 MORE THINGS TO DO AT DOLE PLANTATION:

6. Try and challenge friends and family members on the Pineapple Garden Maze. In 2008, Dole Plantation's giant Pineapple Garden Maze was declared the world's largest maze. The maze stretches over three acres and includes nearly two and one-half miles of paths crafted from 14,000 colorful Hawaiian plants.

7. Relax and enjoy the garden at the back.

8. Take pictures and videos with your family, friends, or significant other. If you're regretfully alone, request someone (possibly another visitor or tourist) take your picture and or video.

9. After taking the tours or doing the maze, you're probably hungry or thirsty, go ahead eat and drink some more local food and drinks. Have a second round of pineapple ice cream.

10. Since you've been browsing at the Plantation Country Store, why not buy something before you leave? Anything. Dole Plantation and the local economy will thank you for it.

Hawaii produces one third of all the pineapples in the world.

Pinapples are not really a single fruit, but a cluster of up to 200 fruitlets.

The pineapple plant originates from Brazil and Paraguay, and was brought to the West Indies by sailors several centuries before the arrival of Europeans, who subsequently exported it to Hawaii.

Canned pineapple was known at the very beginning of the 20th century, but wasn't financially feasible until Henry Ginaca, an engineer, invented a machine in 1911 that could remove the outer shell, inner core and both ends of 100 pineapples in less than a minute. The machine is still known today as the "Ginaca machine", and is widely used in canneries.

Approximately three pineapples are needed to make one can of slices.

Source: http://pineapplesweb.com