Wondering if driving Maui’s famous Road to Hana is worth planning into your vacation? Let’s allow some photos to do the talking and help you decide. First, let’s check out the view from Wai’anapanapa State Park which is a must visit before you arrive in the sleepy town of Hana. This black sand beach amplifies [...]
Friday, July 8, 2011
Today’s Aloha Friday Photos come to us from Fidel. He and his wife took their very first trip to Maui back in May. Fidel and his wife took the early morning drive up to the top of Haleakala to watch sunrise, making sure they arrived early enough for the outstanding stargazing. Fidel tells me he [...]
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Today we have a guest post from Adam Costa, sharing his top 5 Maui diving spots. —- I fell in love with scuba diving at the age of 18 after diving Lahaina’s crystal-clear water. After diving dozens of locations around the world, Maui remains among my favorites. The following are my five favorite Maui dive [...]
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Here’s this week’s top news about the islands of Aloha. * Hawaiian Airlines is celebrating their fourth Airbus A330 with $334 roundtrip fares. That’s fares starting at $334 for all Hawaiian Airlines direct transpacific routes! You must book these fares by May 5, 2011 for travel between September 9 – November 17, 2011, which happens [...]
Monday, May 2, 2011
Mount Haleakala offers two distinctly different environments to explore on your Maui vacation – a lush tropical rain forest and a practically barren alpine summit. These two diverse environments are separated by thousands of feet in elevation, as well as over 100 inches of annual rainfall. What I find most fascinating is that these two [...]
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
When you visit Hawaii, try to check out a lava tube, if you can. These cave-like structures are a amazing formations whether active or inactive for centuries. What are lava tubes? They might be best described as pipes for underground lava rivers. Hawaii Volcanoes National Park has produced a nice little video with an explanation [...]
Friday, February 11, 2011
Today’s Aloha Friday Photo was submitted by Catherine who enjoyed spending New Years in Maui along with her husband, son and good friends. Catherine took this photo from the Kipahulu region of Haleakala National Park that you can find beyond Hana off the spectacular road to Hana. More specifically, she took this photo from the [...]
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
On my very first Maui vacation, I enjoyed watching the sun rise over the crater at the summit of Haleakala. I expected that I would see a spectacular sunrise, and, indeed, I did. What I didn’t expect to see was the star show before the first light of dawn. My goodness! What a sight! I’ve [...]
Thursday, February 3, 2011
With a good bit of North America covered in snow and ice, we could all use some defrosting, right? Here’s a two-minute video of Maui awesomeness that’ll warm you up in a hurry. Hawaii Sunset Video HD: Maui, Kihei, KamaĘ»ole Beach from Aclara Promotions on Vimeo. (Email subscribers: if this video doesn’t display in your [...]
Friday, January 21, 2011
Mahalo to Go Visit Hawaii’s Italian friends, Marco and Laura, for providing this perfectly captured shot of the daily cliff dive ceremony at Sheraton Maui on Kaanapali Beach. Laura and Marco traveled all the way from Italy to visit three Hawaiian Islands back in August, 2010. Laura writes, We spent our last week at Kaanapali [...]
Monday, July 18, 2011
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