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Hawaii Poignant Trip On Molokai Takes On Added Meaning Los Angeles Times
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On a picturesque peninsula of one of hawaii's smallest islands are the remnants of one of history's most horrific medical sequesters. We did do the mule ride down to the leper colony and it was one of the most amazing experiences of my entire life but if you're not willing to do. Molokai, the last truly unspoiled island in hawaii it may look like paradise, but for thousands, the colony of kalaupapa was a prison.

The patients were brought in by boat, norman leahy, the head guide for father damien tours said.

Until 1969, hawaiian law allowed leprosy sufferers to be separated from their families and forcibly moved to the islands' remote leprosy settlement. Visiting hawaii's tragic & remote leprosy colony. Today, the remnants of the area are a national park, albeit one that's remote and doctors in hawaii had also toured leper colonies in china to prepare for the establishment of the community on molokai. Leprosy (later known as hansen's disease) was among eurasian diseases introduced to although tourism is not as large an industry on molokaʻi as on some of the other islands in hawaii, molokaʻi has on average about 1 the colony: