Photo of the Day 96

Pu'uhonua o Honaunau National Historical Park, Hawaii

Photograph by Walker Brooks

Two carved wooden images, called ki'i , overlook Keone'ele Cove in Hawaii's Pu'uhonua o Honaunau National Historical Park. These statues and dozens of others stand sentry over the Hale o Keawe temple, a sacred place where the bones of 23 Hawaiian chiefs once rested.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Insider's Hawaii," November/December 2002, National Geographic Traveler magazine)