Maui Also you can 'turn taking always a single base. We stayed with Penny in Lahaina, http://www.pennysplace.net/ , spending $ 108 per night + breakfast for his Ekolu room.
We chose the room more 'economic and more' little girl but was really full of everything. On the lanai there 'a small kitchen also choose between all the guests to cook, a fridge, microwave etc. ... Even
here we were really good, if you go salutateci Penny: If you choose to come back to Maui again Penny, also because 'Lahaina, full of cute shops and restaurants to take a stroll in the evening, and' the base more 'convenient to all Maui
The breakfast was good: every morning a different pasta (or waffles or muffins) coffee ', milk, fruit and orange juice. Penny has a total of four rooms, breakfast is made with other guests of the house and Penny befriends giving you valuable advice about your day.
Maui and 'most definitely' tour of Kauai, but even though in different ways and we 'enjoyed the same way, both for its wonderful beaches to the lush vegetation of the north coast. Do not miss our opinion
island:
The road to Hana, along the north coast, with superb views along the way and the two beaches' good of the whole island, which is at the end of the tour: the red sand Black Sand Beach and the Beach. Bring comfortable shoes: red species to the beach with flip flops and you could slip very badly!
find precise directions on how to get to the red sand beach on the rough, 'cause in reality' is not marked by any sign.
The Americans will try to scare the ugliness of this road, how narrow, curvy, etc. ...
In reality, 'for Italians used to the streets of our mountains will prove' very simple! Certainly they, accustomed to the eight-lane highway ...
Big Beach, a long golden sand beach in the south.
April 14, 2009 We woke up at 3:30 thinking of taking the usual hour and a half to return the car and check in, but the Alamo is only open to five, which we forgot to ask first! Thus, 'we'll' wait longer 'half-hour before it opens its gates on hold: Luciano spends his time napping, and I write this diary.
The flight 'at 6, but the airport of Kauai and' very small so even if we deliver the car only an hour before we have time to do everything.
We stop at Honolua, Maui, and when we come to discover with joy that ended the Alamo economy car and will give us' a beautiful spacious compact: Aveo nothing horrible time! When we get to Penny 's still early in the morning and our room is not' ready. For us there are problems, certainly did not want to stay in the room, We were interested to leave their luggage and take the towels and the fact that, after a hearty breakfast at the Cafe 'Mambo-based omelette that will make us' at the end of brunch just before Lahaina (€ 16.83) We now explore in Maui.
Today we decided to do the south coast, we are now in the midst of a lot 'of traffic and many tourist facilities. Among these are opened, however, 'the beautiful beaches, we stopped in two or three even if our favorite will 'last view of Big Beach. A long strip of golden sand tossed by waves of violence, full of people who enjoy doing body surf, it will be 'one of the beaches' beautiful in Maui.
In the evening we go for a walk to Lahaina, where we make the first purchase of a holiday at the Ripcurl stocked shop on the waterfront and where we have dinner at Cheeseburger in Paradise! The food will prove 'good, the bill is not too salty (€ 26.44) and the fantastic location, with a terrace overlooking the ocean, so we'll be back here two more nights!
April 15, 2009 Today we dedicate the day to day trip to Hana, one of the most 'beautiful that you can do in Maui. On the advice of Penny
buy a box at the Picnic one of the cafes' to Pa'ia. Knowing that the road is not 'easy to find good things to eat, these coffee' prepare a packed lunch with a sandwich (one of them, then a jumbo sandwich), fruit, their inevitable chips, the cookies and a drink, all for less than $ 10. With a deposit of $ 20, you put everything in a cooler box that you can return at the end when you get back indientro. We have found it very comfortable!
Pahia reveals among other things, a very pretty small town, where there is also an antique shop 'that sells old license plates to our collection. The plate of Hawaii and 'finally in our hands, we will no longer' look for the rest of the holiday! The road to
Hana will prove 'very beautiful and full of wonderful past, even if things most' beautiful to discover towards the end, with the beautiful black sand beach of Waianapanapa State Park and the Red Sand Beach in Hana, where we stop to make a most of the baths' beautiful holiday, in the midst of the waves that penetrate into the small bay and toss it without excessive violence. The return to Lahaina
reveals' more 'faster than we expected, also because' in front of the bus but we are not only cars that are progressing rather fast.
We have time to see the beautiful sunset from the Bay of Lahaina before you make a shower and get back to Lahaina for dinner and two steps.
We feel like Mexican, we choose one of many in the town but the choice will prove 'pretty mediocre, so that we can not really recommend it.
April 16, 2009 Today we decided to spend the day exploring the east coast of Maui, full of luxury resorts, golf courses, but also of wild beaches, hidden by high cliffs.
reaching Nakelele Point, at the extreme northeast, beyond which we can not 'go' cause the insurance will not cover us. In return, we stop for a swim in the beautiful beach of Kahana Bay, where we spend the rest of the afternoon relaxing. Please note that here the beaches are hidden in the resort, which are still obliged to give access to the public beach and leave some of their free parking. Set out to find them or signs or lettering on the car parks themselves. This is true in all Hawaii, where the surf and 'free ... no resort will be able to' never stop you from putting the towel at one meter from the shore, even if you are in front of their property, remember that if you should find very nice people (but we did not happen!).
After the beautiful day, back to Lahaina for the usual two-step evening. After the disappointing experience with dinner the night before, we decided to repeat Cheeseburger in Paradise.
April 17, 2009
last breakfast at Penny Today, we salute Ms. Canadas with whom we chatted all the other mornings she will do 'route to Kauai, we are still waiting for a day in Maui.
devoted the last day on the island to explore Haleakala National Park, the extinct crater of Maui. The road to get there and 'almost moon: the first strait are wrapped in fog so that you and' uncertain whether to proceed, fearing to find bad weather at the top. On the top however, you come out to 3000 meters in the middle of a blinding sun.
visit to the park and 'very nice, the crater of the landscapes almost alien, even if one of the things that I' liked most 'and' the beautiful view from the lookout on the Big Island of Red Hill, the highest 'high Haleakala.
In the fall we decided to follow the advice of our guide and make the road leading up to Pa'ia in central Maui.
As promised by the rough, the guide proves to be very exciting because it 's been in the midst of scenery very beautiful, like the town nice Makawao, where we stop for lunch at the Mexican Chicken's that it reveals a lot better than that of Lahaina, even though we are far by the standards of the American West (€ 14.08). After
Makawao, the road winds up to Pa'ia among those that were the sugar plantations in the area, full of greenery and delightful corners.
decide to end the day with a bath and go to look for the beach Kahikili beach, just north of Lahaina, where we see the sunset, along with the few people left to celebrate a wedding on the beach. After the inevitable dinner
Cheeseburger in Paradise, we go to buy some beach towels, because tomorrow we leave for the Big Island and change accommodation every night, so we can not take advantage of those offered by the various B & B.
Now, some pictures of Maui.
The black sand beach at Hana:
The beach of red sand to Hana:
Sunset a few steps from the B & B:
Beach on the west coast of ' Island:
Specialties: here's how to make these islands do not even have a waste paper around! Clean ... in exchange for advertising!
Iao Valley, one of the wettest of the Earth: The
almost alien landscape of Haleakala, the extinct crater of Maui:
On a clear day, from the summit of Haleakala you see the Big Island:
A church in the valley of the sugar plantations:
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