Aloha! Limestone Global Experience Sending Students To Hawaii In May

Limestone University believes that learning about and experiencing other cultures can be integral parts of any student’s education. While other institutions might offer a small number of students the opportunity to study abroad, as part of their education at Limestone University, we offer any of our undergraduate on-campus program students who wish to participate with the opportunity to go on one short-term Global Experience trip covered by their tuition.

Each Global Experience destination is designed with a specific academic focus and taught and chaperoned by Limestone professors. Flights, ground transportation, lodging, meals, and travel healthcare insurance are covered by the University.

The next Global Experience journey May 8-14 will take a group of Saints to Hawaii where in East O'ahu they will tour Diamond Head, Hanauma Bay, Makapu's Point, and Nuuanu Pali Lookout. The students will also visit Pearl Harbor and the USS Arizona Memorial and USS Missouri.

Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum will be a location where the Limestone group will immerse itself in Hawaii's rich culture and heritage at the premier natural and cultural history museum in the state. The Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum has the world's largest collection of Polynesian cultural artifacts and natural history specimens. Besides the comprehensive exhibits of Hawaiiana, the museum's total holding of natural history specimens exceeds 24 million.

In Hilo, the Saints will visit Waianuenue Falls, better known as Rainbow Falls, where the Wailuku River rushes into a large pool below. The gorge is blanketed by lush, dense nonnative tropical rainforest and the turquoise colored pool is bordered by beautiful, although nonnative, wild ginger. Monstera is also in abundance.

The Limestone group will visit the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park in Kona, which protects some of the most unique geological, biological, and cherished cultural landscapes in the world. The group will also stop at Punaalu'u Black Sand Beach that is made of basalt and created by lava flowing into the ocean which explodes as it reaches the ocean and cools. Punaluʻu is frequented by endangered hawksbill and green turtles, which can often be seen basking on the black sand. The Saints will also visit Pu’uohonua Honaunau National Historic Park.

While in Kona, the Limestone group will also visit a coffee plantation or possibly a bee and honey farm.

Plans will be announced soon for Limestone's other Global Experience trip in May that will send a separate group of students to Puerto Rico.

“These unforgettable trips like the next ones headed to Hawaii and Puerto Rico offer our students the opportunity to explore culture, business, commerce, and education in some of the most beautiful locations in the world,” said Limestone President Dr. Darrell Parker. “We firmly believe that such short-term study abroad opportunities are essential to our students as they continue their studies and as they prepare to compete in an increasingly globalized workforce."

During the upcoming Fall 2022 semester, Global Experience trips are planned to Spain and France, and to Colombia.

(Accompany photo: Diamond Head on O'ahu in Hawaii.)