The most extraordinarily diverse and most dramatically beautiful island chain in the entire Pacific Ocean — eight main islands of volcanic origin stretching across 2,400 kilometres of the North Pacific in a landscape of such breathtaking natural variety that it encompasses active lava fields flowing to the sea, sacred rainforest valleys of ancient Hawaiian cultural significance, black sand beaches of extraordinary volcanic drama, the world’s most celebrated big wave surf breaks, alpine summit observatories above the clouds on Mauna Kea’s 4,200-metre summit, and the most extraordinarily diverse marine ecosystem in the central Pacific. Hawaii is not simply America’s most beautiful state. It is one of the world’s most genuinely extraordinary and most naturally magnificent travel destinations.