Kauai Travel
kauai accommodation and holiday guide
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Kauai Island
Pacific Travel Guides
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Aloha from Kauai Island, Hawaii
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Kauai Travel is the one-stop resource for independent-minded travellers to this exotic south pacific destination. Our detailed tourist information with links to relevant Kauai accommodation and helpful maps and pictures is the perfect tool for planning your travels.
If this is your first time visit, we suggest you start at our Kauai Travel Guide to give you a quick orientation about Kauai Island and what to see and where to stay.
For detailed information about kauai activities, be sure to read our Top 10 Sightseeing Attractions which will give you an excellent platform for planning your trip.
If you want to skip the kauai travel information, search our detailed Lodging Guide. It provides an overview of hotels to bed and breakfast guesthouses outlining the price you can expect to pay and enabling you to book direct through the hotels own website.
Kauai offers a little bit of everything in a compact area - the sunny seaside town of Poipu and Lihue in the south with its golf courses ; the archaeological sites and rivers for exploring in the west ; the stunning coastline in the north with its secluded beaches and excellent hiking trails ; and finally the unusual canyons and wild beaches on the west side. Helicopter and sailing tours are very popular and breathtaking scenic drives makes car hire a must.
Kauai has the States, if not the worlds most breath-taking scenery along the inaccessible Na Pali coast which drops dramatically into the ocean of the north west shore. Kauai is a photographers dream and has been the location for many big screen movies from Blue Hawaii (Elvis Presley) to Jurassic Park. This smallest but oldest of the main Hawaiian Islands has a valued reputation for adventure, eco-tourism and great sightseeing as well as having the States most scenic beach locations.
Lying to the north and west of Oahu, about a 40-minute flight from Oahu (almost hourly flights from 6am to 7pm), Kauai seems more isolated than the other islands. It certainly is more exposed to winds and winter storms coming from the north and together with time, have created the ravaged landscape that beautifies this island. Rising steeply to 5000 feet, Mt. Waialeale is touted as the worlds wettest place with rainfall exceeding 40 feet of rain annually. This rainfall has carved out some of the most outrageously beautiful valleys imaginable including the sun baked gorges of the Waimea Canyon in the south and the tumbling waterfalls along the east and north coast.
Our guide is full of pictures and maps to give you a clear impression of the region. We also provide useful links throughout our text so you can find out more about tours and accommodation and make reservations.
Enjoy planning your holidays ...
South Pacific Travel Guides also provides detailed travel information for Cook Islands, Samoa, Tonga, Tahiti and Hawaii. Please note that we are a publishing company. We are not an agent and cannot offer consultancy or booking services. Our aim is to give you free and independent advice about the region based on our own experiences and then point you in the right direction so you can book your accommodation and tours.
Should you have any comments about our site or would like to suggest, recommend or complain about any establishment listed in our pages, we would be glad to hear from you.
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