Maui
Travel Blogs from Maui, United States
iao valley
... where there is a store and cafe. Just beyond that is a little park with scenery from different communities that established themselves on Maui. The Japanese garden, for example, had a koi pond and a replica of a tea house along with a statue of early ...
beach park, pools, blowholes oh my
... and we were at the right markers and we saw some pools, but they didn't seem very accessible. According to the "Maui Revealed" book, sometimes the weather can change what the pools look like and making them unrecognizable, so perhaps we just weren't ...
Homeless...at last!!!
... flew the eleven hours to Maui to meet up with my side of the family and celebrate my parents 40th wedding anniversary. We've been in Maui now for five days. It couldn't be any nicer! We are all staying in a really swank hotel, The Grand Wailea Resort. It ...
We finally leave the comforts of the condo
... off of our asses and to go with her to check out the wedding site. Oh yeah, the wedding! That's the reason we came to Maui in the first place. My oldest friend whom I have known since we were in the second grade is getting married on Sunday! Jen and ...
Back and forth and back and forth again
Sze & I got up early this morning and packed up camp. We headed to Hanna Bay so that we could have a hot cup of coffee at Tutu's. Then we were off to Kipahulu to set up camp at Oheo where the Seven "Sacred" Pools are. Apparently, they were never sacred, ...
Up the volcano, camp at Hosmer Grove
Sze and I woke up early and saw a gorgeous sunrise. Then we packed up and hit the road. The scenery changed a lot on our way to Haleakala. From tropical to desert to mountains. Wow! The temperature dropped 20 degrees or so, and we made good use of ...
Catamaran sunset cruise
Yet another lazy day at the condo. Erin and Nadine relaxed for most of the day, either reading out on the lanai or watching the darn telly (that time waster..). I did a little bit of work and started sorting the hundreds of pictures we took during this ...
Haleakala Sunrise
... night. We were done with camping and in need of a shower! We found a room for about $70. It turned out to be the Maui Lu in Kihei. We thought it was the nicest hotel ever because it had electricity and running water. Washing my hair never felt so good ...
Mother Maui
Leaving the cold before the snow flies.....after 2 weeks, I find a wonderful place to stay right across from the beach in north Kihei. Shortly after moving in, I get news that my dear cousin Chris lost his battle with depression and took his life to ...
Living Large
... to cook for dinner. Then it was off to the car rental place. They were kind enough to drop us off at our new residence at in Maui Hill. When we got into our room we were awe struck. It's a huge one bedroom with two bathrooms and a full kitchen, plus it ...
Sunscreen & bikini are all you need!
... So I thought I owed it to myself to check out warmer climes. Having already lived in Florida, a friend suggested I check out Maui. So I booked my frequent flyer ticket, got myself a house off Craigslist overlooking the Pacific on the magical north side of ...
Hana, hana, banana fofana, waianapanapa
... Could've missed the town altogether if we blinked. The scenery changed drastically from what we were used to on West Maui. Explosions of green everywhere, temperatures cooled a little bit, and we were met with sudden rainshowers all throughout our drive. ...
airplanes, food and guava juice!
... ourselves back in Kahului alot during this trip since it had the only Borders with wireless internet access. More about that later. Maui Seaside Inn was a decent place for the price we paid. Clean rooms, a small little pool, rather motel-like. ...
Easing Back Home Through Hawaii
... side trips to other parts of the island. Due to the weather and the fact that we were becoming lazy travelers, we certainly didn't do Maui justice, but we did manage to take a nice hike at a pretty park in the hills and do some more body surfing on one ...
the wedding
today was jennifer and chris' wedding day. jen and her posse came by the condo for lunch. i made a seared ahi salad that was delicious :) we asked if there was any last minute thing that she needed. she realized that she didn't have any flowers for her ...
Local Boy Tours No Ka Oi!!
My roomie's best pal Bruce, a local boy who loves Maui and loves even more to hang out with fun women, picks us up early for our long drive to Hana. We go up to Kula first for supplies - beer, poke (yummy raw ahi tuna w/shoyu - soy sauce, onions and ...
Exploring waterfalls and the road to Hana
I was woken up last night by some mallet mashing and this is what we found when we woke up. Apparently, some campers did not obey the "don't pitch your tent so close to another tent that you can hear them snore" rule and pitched up right next to our ...
Bruce's Awesome Adventures
... the road back, we enjoy again the relaxing drive and stop here to see the fantastic view back towards the far south of Maui. An incredible day, with refreshing swims, great food, and the absolute most fantastic local guide!! Everywhere we went people knew ...
swimming with the fishes
This morning I woke up with really sore calves. When I ran into Erin in the living room she had been stretching for the last half a hour. It was the damn hike in the Iao Valley. Who would have thought that 30 minutes of walking about would take such a ...
Journey to Paradise: Maui
... party a magnet with the ships picture, ships name and the date of our cruise as a souvenir. We exchanged some knickknacks from the states where we came from. None of the ships officers came. We met at Diamond Head A. They provided us with snacks. We had ...
Erin moves in
... about the spectacular view. Erin and her friend, Lara, came by in the afternoon. They had been to the Big Island and in Maui for a few days already. Lara was flying back home in the evening and Erin was moving in with us for the remainder of our ...
Mar 20, 2009
Last one home is a rotten egg
Erin and I cleaned up around the condo and dropped off the keys at the front office. We had a balance of about $25 from phone usage. All of this was from AOL dial up. Sze got us a two month free trial membership which we used at the condo. 60 cents per ...
Second day at Kihei
... restaurant in Kihei called Bada Bing. The food was alright, a little too expensive (seems like the theme of the food in Maui.. expensive and just ok). A rather subdued day, which was really what we needed to wind down a week of whirlwind camping and ...
Hello all! (aloha is getting old isn't it?) ...
Hello All! (Aloha is getting old isn't it?) Jayne here...well a quick entry before we depart Hawaii....We are leaving Maui tonite, flying to Honolulu and leaving for Bangkok tomorrow (mon) noon. We will be travelling for about 24 hours and arrive in ...
Going to Town!
We got up early to beat the crowds. We decided to hike the Pipiwai Trail up to the infinity pool. We got there and there were a couple of people hanging out there. Once they left it was just us and a magnificent view from the top of the waterfall. We ...
let the camping begin
... the water since there were just miles and miles of shoreline to play with. Back at camp, we showered and changed. Consulting our "Maui Revealed!" book (which in my opinion, is the best book ever to use when visiting Maui), we decided to check out the ...
Catch the wave
I am sitting in a lazy boy in an internet cafe enjoying the warm humid air and listening to the lax music. I arrived yesterday to be picked up by Liz's friends and whisked off to a birthday party. We played games and ate and I met a bunch of people who ...

