Place of refuge

February 11, 2020 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C

Today we visited the Pu’uhonua O Honaunau National Historical Park. Imagine you had broken the kapu, the sacred laws, and the punishment was death with your only chance of survival being to elude your pursuers and reach the Pu'uhonua, a place of refuge.

Sound like something from the TV series Survival? Well this is probably where they would have got the idea from.

The park looked out into Hōnaunau Bay where we had snorkelled a few day earlier.Read more