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Manderson 3rd Anniversary/ Tiffany’s Big 40 Look for me to guide you to important information! Dear Tiffany and Mike, Thank you for choosing Guidester: Your Personal Guide to the World. Your customized travel guidebook will provide you with all the tools to travel safer, travel better, and allow you to maximize your time. Every point of interest includes their descriptions, hours, prices, and locations. ‘The Know Before You Go’ section is where you will find useful travel information such as communication, transportation, safety, and cultural tips. The Guidester logo will point out special tips and tricks for specific sights. We recommend that you review each section carefully. Your e-guidebook will provide you greater flexibility and enhanced capabilities for the trip. The guidebook can be viewed on any smart device; simply download and the guidebook can be viewed in your ‘ebooks.’ Table of contents are clickable and select points of interest are linked to their respective website. There is also an interactive map for each destination that will take you to live google maps, which has all of your points of interest mapped out for you; simply click on the map. We know you will have an unforgettable trip. Enjoy! Sincerely, The Guidester Team 2 www.Guidester.com Overview & Brief History Kauai is Hawaii’s fourth largest island and is sometimes called the “Garden Isle,” which is an entirely accurate description. The oldest and northernmost island in the Hawaiian chain is draped in emerald valleys, sharp mountain spires and jagged cliffs, aged by time and the elements. Centuries of growth have formed tropical rainforests, forking rivers and cascading waterfalls. Some parts of Kauai are only accessible by sea or air, revealing views beyond your imagination. Kauai’s distant past is filled with legends, the most well known tells of the Menehune, a mythical race of small people talented in construction and engineering who created Kauai’s aqueducts and fishponds, often in a single night. They were believed to have lived in the woods and were shunned by Hawaiians. Today, you can still see their work at Hawaiian fishponds like Alekoko, known as Menehune Fishpond, near Lihue. In 1778, British explorer Captain James Cook landed in Kauai’s Waimea Bay for the first time. Cook’s discovery of what he called the “Sandwich Isles,” named after the Earl of Sandwich, introduced Hawaii to the world. During this era of western discovery, King Kamehameha I was attempting to unify the Hawaiian Islands under his rule. Kauai and the small neighboring island of Niihau were the only islands to deter his efforts. Eventually, Kauai’s King Kaumualii decided to peacefully unite with Kamehameha and join the rest of the Kingdom of Hawaii. 3 www.Guidester.com HOTEL Kauai Marriott Resort 3610 Rice Street Lihue, Hawaii 96766 +1-808-245-5050 TABLE OF CONTENTS 6 Things To See & Do 11 Dining 16 Shopping 18 Nightlife & Entertainment 21 Maps 31 ! Know Before You Go! 5 www.Guidester.com Table of Contents Things To See & Do DESCRIPTION HOURS PRICE $ LOCATION Kalapaki Kalapaki Beach on a cove in front of the Daily during Beach, Rice Kauai Marriott Resort popular for daylight hours Free Street, Lihue, Beach swimming, surfing & volleyball. HI Located on the North Shore, water at Kalihiwai Beach is generally calm and the sand is great and voluminousness. A Kalihiwai Rd, Kalihiwai Daily during Kilauea, HI great beach for a picnic lunch daylight hours Free Beach with lots of shade, easy access 96754 and usually it's not real crowded. No hiking required, just pull up and unload on the beach. Kauai is home to the only navigable rivers in Hawaii, so kayaking is an integral part of a unique Kauai vacation. Relax Varies by tour and take in the exquisite scenery $50/ Kayak on as you paddle down the Wailua Closed person 4565 Haleilio River. This popular river for Sunday for a tour, Road, Kapaa, Wailua River kayaking weaves by lush, jungle BYO HI 96746 landscapes along with island’s See HERE lunch East Side. Consider a guided for more. kayak tour which includes paddling, hiking, swimming, 6 and picnicking. www.Guidester.com DESCRIPTION HOURS PRICE $ LOCATION Local surfers, boogie boarders & sunbathers frequent this beach Daily Kealia with picnic pavilions & bathrooms. Kealia Beach, during day- Free Kapaa, HI Beach This is a great beach for light hours swimming, surfing, body boarding, and watching the sunrise. Located on the North Shore of Kauai, the Napali Coast features panoramic views of the vast Pacific Daily Port Allen Marina Ocean, velvet green cliffs and during day- Varies - see Center Na Pali cascading waterfalls plummeting light hours HERE for 4353 Waialo Road Coast into deep, narrow valleys. Boat more info Suite 5A tours are a great way to experience Tour times Eleele, HI 96705 the coast. Choose from a snorkel vary adventure, a sunset cruise and more with Holoholo. Cascading down into a hidden pool, this waterfall is easily one of 3-5920 Kuhio Hwy, the island's most accessible major Kapaa, HI 96746 waterfalls. This convenient stop Located on the East Side about 2 mi. makes for a memorable photo Daily Opaeka’a opportunity. "Opaekaa" means up Kuamoo Road during day- Free (Route 580) from Falls "rolling shrimp," which were once light hours abundant in the stream. Walk uphill Hwy. 56, signs from the Opaekaa lookout and clearly point to the across the road for another great roadside lookout on view of the Wailua River valley and the right. interior plains beyond. 7 www.Guidester.com DESCRIPTION HOURS PRICE $ LOCATION Poipu Beach was named America’s Best Beach by The Travel Channel, ranking top among the 10 “best” beaches selected nationwide. Large Poipu honu (Hawaiian green sea turtles) also Poipu Beach Beach swim in these waters. Poipu Beach Daily during Free Park, Koloa, is most famous for the endangered daylight hours HI 96756 Park Hawaiian monk seals that sometimes sunbathe on the shore. There are only about 1,200 Hawaiian monk seals remaining and many swim in the waters of Kauai. Enjoy this isolated white-sand beach Polihale and cliff views on the western side of Polihale State State the island. It is the most western Daily during Free Park, Hwy 50, publicly accessible area in Hawaii. As daylight hours Waimea, HI Park this is a remote beach, there are no facilities available. Tours from 10am-3pm Take a helicopter ride to experience have the all The Garden Isle has to offer from most neutral Flights the sky. Flights are approximately lighting. Earlier $189/ depart from Safari 60 minutes long and cover over 100 and later flights person if Lihue Airport miles of amazing Kauai scenery. The often have you book helipad at Helicopter Manawaipuna Waterfall (commonly enhanced online 3901 Tour known as the "Jurassic Park waterfall"), views as (saving Mokulele Olokele Canyon and Waimea Canyon, shadows and you $50!) Loop, Lihue, and the Na Pali Coastline are just a few highlights HI 96766 of the stops along the way! appear, and possibly rainbows! 8 www.Guidester.com DESCRIPTION HOURS PRICE $ LOCATION Princeville Ranch has a variety of Waterfall fun tours to really experience the Picnic beauty Kauai has to offer. Try the Mon - Sat Ride & Waterfall Picnic Ride (Horseback Departure Riding + 80-foot waterfall swim + Ride N' Princeville times vary by Glide 5-4280 Kuhio picnic) or the Ride N' Glide season. Ranch (Horseback Riding + 3 fun, fast $149/ Highway, Adventures ziplines over the treetops). Both Total tour person + Princeville, HI rides offer breathtaking views of time is tax. 96722 Tours mountains, valleys and the ocean. approx. 3-3.5 Princeville Ranch offers other hours Prices tours as well, including off road vary by adventures and jungle valley tour kayak tours. Secret Beach, Kilauea, HI-take Vast public beach, accessible by the Kuhio Hwy an unmarked trail, features a past Kilauea & turn waterfall & tidal lagoons. The right on Kalihiwai Secret ocean at Secret Beach tends to be Daily Road. Follow the rough and is subject to extremely during road for 50 yards (Kauapea) strong currents, so take caution Free and turn right into daylight an unmarked, before entering for a swim. The far hours Beach east side of the beach is a nude unpaved road. beach. Whales and dolphins are Proceed to the seen off the shore at times during end. Nearby is the the summer. foot path leading to the west end of the beach. The Poipu surf channels into a natural lava tube here and releases a huge spout of water during large Daily Spouting Horn, Spouting swells. You’ll also hear a hiss during Hawaii-On Kauai’s and a roar that is the basis of daylight Free South Shore near Horn a Hawaiian legend. Ancient hours Poipu Hawaiians believed this coastline 9 was once guarded by a giant moo www.Guidester.com (lizard) named Kaikapu. DESCRIPTION HOURS PRICE $ LOCATION Wailua Falls is a step off the beaten path. Here, the Wailua River cascades into two streams, dropping 80-feet below. Wailua Wailua Falls, Falls is most recognized in the Kauai County, HI North of Lihue - at Wailua opening credits of the long-running Daily during Free Falls television show "Fantasy Island." daylight hours the south end of Easily accessible, Wailua Falls can the Wailua River be seen from the roadside. If you visit in the mornings, you may be treated to a rainbow, making for an amazing photo of Wailua Falls. Waimea Canyon is described as "The Grand Canyon of the Pacific." Although not as big or as old as its Arizona cousin, you won’t en- counter anything like this geologi- cal wonder in Hawaii.