Hawaiian Salt Farm Tour in Kona

Experience the Kona Hawaiian Salt Farm Tour and delve into the traditional salt making process using deep ocean waters. Enjoy a salt tasting and explore the oceanfront site on Hawaii Island.

Duration: 1 hour
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Kailua-Kona - Our Salt Farm Manager will meet you at our office and give a guided tour of our water source, salt harvesting areas, explain the salt harvesting process, our other deep ocean mineral products and finish with a salt tasting.
What's Included
  • Bottled water included
Additional Information

Tour Hawaii Island’s only Salt Farm. Recently featured on Guy Fieri’s show, we are located on a beautiful 7-acre oceanfront site, in an area that has been used for salt gathering by Hawaiians for centuries and now is part of the Hawaii Ocean Science & Technology Park.

Our Chief Salt Maker blends tradition with modern technology, hand-harvesting the only salt in the world made from Deep Ocean Waters 2,200 feet below the surface.

Your guide will provide a brief overview of the history of our area, the special significance of salt in Hawaiian culture, our salt-making process, and the centuries-long journey through deep sea currents that our ultra-pristine and mineral-rich water takes before arriving here.

To conclude, we offer a tasting of our various salts, including flavored and smoked varieties.

Flowing Cold Deep Ocean Water Foot Soaks are available as an add-on. Or visit our store if our tour does not fit into your schedule.

Our tour is partially wheelchair accessible; please contact us for more information.

Location
73-907 Makako Bay Dr
Makako Bay Drive
Enter the Kona Sea Salt Farm Driveway and check in at the Office
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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T8308bmannw
Jul 29, 2024
Loved! - This was a great way to learn more about Hawaii. The umbrellas were helpful when out in the sun. We enjoyed the salt tasting experience at the end of the tour.
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Judi_o
Jul 23, 2024
Luxury meets salt - Learning about the history and that fact you give back to the environment ❤️. The tour was so informative and the guide remembers everyone’s name.
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Tiffandjay
Jul 18, 2024
Great experience - This tour is awesome. My family loves salt but was skeptical that they would enjoy this. Let me tell you this is worth doing the staff is great and I honestly had no idea what it takes to make real pure sea salt. 100% recommend this tour. It’s amazing
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Clara_b
Jul 16, 2024
Fun & informative tour - This tour was recommended to us by the activity center at our resort. Our guide was very informative & we learned so many things about the processing of sea salt. In the end, we got to taste a variety of salts & ending up buying. We highly recommend this tour.
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Zucca38
Jul 13, 2024
Highly recommend - My husband thought a salt farm tour wouldn’t be very interesting, but we had a great time! Our tour guide was great - super nice and very informative. We learned so much and left with some great (real) Hawaiian salt. We would definitely recommend this tour in Hawaii.
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Dane_w
Jul 12, 2024
The guide made the tour. - The guide was very good and created a great tour. Learning about salt and how its crystallizations vary according to temperature determines size of crystals. Plus the collaborative work with other ecological projects.
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Grandtour625993
Jul 10, 2024
Best Tour yet! - This place was so cool. The tour guide was very personable and very informed about the farm. She made it very memorable. The tasting portion of the tour was great too! We bought several flavored salts-and it’s all HAND PROCESSED/PACKED!!
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Amy_h
Jul 10, 2024
A tour not to miss!! - The Hawaiian salt farm tour was an amazing experience. We learned about Hawaiian culture, the land, and the artisan process of making Hawaiian salts. Highly recommend this tour and do not skip the deep sea foot soak. It was a highlight for our whole family.
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Anna
Jul 9, 2024
Amazing - Absolutely wonderful experience. Extremely informative and fun learning experience! You have to try the deep sea foot soak especially if you have done a lot of walking! The tour guide was so nice, friendly, and knowledgeable!
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322serenar
Jul 6, 2024
Perfect experience! Must-do! - Omg… I have nothing but amazing things to say about our tour guide/he had long black hair and was the sweetest man ever! We got our times mixed up for our tour and he still gave us a mini tour of the salt farm and let us try the different salts. We’re absolutely grateful and want to come back again to visit and do a proper tour in the future! 100% recommended- hospitality was 1000/10. I’m so sad to go!! 😮‍💨 but please visit and support the Kona Salt Farm Tour, you won’t regret it!
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