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I'd love to hike and camp the Kalalau Trail on the Na Pali coast of Kauai.
I found this video on youtube of some friends hiking it

What a dream that would be!

In 2008, we hiked the trail just past the 2 mile beach. It was absolutely beautiful. We hope to do it again when we go back to Kauai for a 4th time in 2011...

I knew I could find information I needed here. Here's another question.....do you rent cars on any of the islands? Or is transportation?

Try http://discounthawaiicarrental.com/ . . . . . I have been told that they are really good. You'll need one fer sure on Kauai, if you want to see all the sights (and sites.)
(I have a National Emerald Club membership thru work, so I haven't actually used them myself . . .)

Here's a good link on renting cars in Kauai . . . http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g2 ... awaii.html

The best hotel to stay at where you can actually safely swim in the ocean is the MArriott...... although I dont think it would be $150 a night.

Loved it there though, and did the ziplining too which was AWESOME!!!!

daddymention wrote:In 2008, we hiked the trail just past the 2 mile beach. It was absolutely beautiful. We hope to do it again when we go back to Kauai for a 4th time in 2011...

Did that once, that's one of my top 10 days ever. Time to dig out the photo album again....

Just got home from the Big Island. This is a great place to stay!

http://www.honukai.com/

We had a wonderful time there.

We stayed at the Hilton Waikoloa Village during Tom's meeting. Good Lord! That place is huge The have trams and boats to get around. Kinda a Disneyland place. Fake waterfalls, fake beach, etc. Lovely gardens and artwork though.

nutmeg wrote:Just got home from the Big Island. This is a great place to stay!

http://www.honukai.com/

We had a wonderful time there.

We stayed at the Hilton Waikoloa Village during Tom's meeting. Good Lord! That place is huge The have trams and boats to get around. Kinda a Disneyland place. Fake waterfalls, fake beach, etc. Lovely gardens and artwork though.

I'll be looking for your photos in the picture thread!

chippewa wrote:

nutmeg wrote:Just got home from the Big Island. This is a great place to stay!

http://www.honukai.com/

We had a wonderful time there.

We stayed at the Hilton Waikoloa Village during Tom's meeting. Good Lord! That place is huge The have trams and boats to get around. Kinda a Disneyland place. Fake waterfalls, fake beach, etc. Lovely gardens and artwork though.

I'll be looking for your photos in the picture thread!

I was so excited while watching the whales and they were actually too close to get good pictures. Hopefully some of Tom's videos did better. We had a whale actually swim under our boat.

The whales off the coast of the Big Island were everywhere. You could see them from the car while driving along the highway.

Kona Village on the Big Island is so worth the trip...never been to Kauai but heard it was great!

I actually have a time share on Kauai & love it there. We always go for 2 weeks so we do Kauai & another island -last trip was the Big Island- very strange as you drive around -it looks like your are on the moon with all the lava. We enjoyed our stay on the island, but give me Kauai any day -it is such a beautiful & relaxing island!!!