Senator Fong's Plantation and Gardens

Located in Kaneohe, these gardens once belonged to the Hawaiian Senator Fong and have been open to the public in their present state for a short while.

At the first elections for the American Congress in Hawaii in 1959, Hiram Leong Fong was elected as the first U.S. senator of Asian descent. Fong came from a large Chinese family of land workers and achieved the astonishing rise to the Senate for the Republican Party. When he retired from political life in 1979 after 17 years of public service, he decided to create (on an approximately 150-hectare area of land) a tropical forest open to everyone, together with a plantation and gardens. Among other things, 90 types of edible nuts and fruits grow here.