Partial panorama from the cliff overlooking Pololu Valley. This is the beautiful, and non-touristy, North Kohala coast. The more arid and lava encrusted South Kohala coast is all giant hotels and expensive shops. North Kohala, around Havi, is an area, along with most of the eastern part of the big island, that used to produce a lot of sugar cane, and still has many square miles of it growing wild. Most of the sugar cane is now produced in the Caribbean and Philippine Islands. The areas in Hawaii that used to grow and process the cane are now very economically depressed, and many people, mostly of Hawaiian and Oriental descent, live in poverty and near poverty conditions.