Speaking of secret places tucked down winding roads,
Paleaku is a beautiful garden and a very special, peaceful place. You’ll pull down their driveway and park under some very old trees most likely filled with chattering mynas, then enter through a shaded walkway lined with interesting plants. Part of the year, a crimson jade flower will be blooming above you. You walk through a partially open/partially covered walkway and sign in, look at gifts if you like, use the restroom, grab an umbrella if it’s raining. There will most likely be no one else around. You’ll hear birds and the tinkle of little fountains and wind rustling leaves, but this is a place of silence, not a tourist-spot or heavily-visited botanical garden. It is a peaceful place and its mission is to host/foster peaceful activities.
You exit the entry walkway and head down a grassy path that ends at a brilliant white Buddhist stupa backed by a sweeping ocean view. There’s a covered area with two Tibetan sand-paintings on the way (I saw the monks working on these a couple of years ago and it was amazing), and a green parrot named Harriet (Harry, for short) that likes to whistle at you as you pass. The grassy lawn is bordered by some strange exotic flowers and deliciously-scented flowering trees and elegant cocoa palms. A breeze blows up from the ocean keeping the grounds comfortably cool. In addition to the Buddhist stupa there are other sculptures, a labyrinth, and a
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