Kauai Sightseeing Map

Chocolate Tasting Tour

The Princeville Wet Gardens is still open and regularly provides 3-hour trips throughout the area. The Princeville botanical gardens offer a great chance to see a botanic gardens with tropical plants, tasty orchards, healthful hives and biological cocoa and cocoa.

On four and a half day aweek we serve you uncooked cocoa, culinary pralines, honeys, seasonal country fruits and an instructive stroll through our garden. It is necessary to make a guided reservation to see our garden. It is necessary to make a reservation for a place on a trip to see our parks.

Monday, Tuesday and Thursday: 1:30 pm check-in for 2 pm trip. Friday: 9 am check-in for 9:30 am trip. Not a Friday afternoons' outing.

Some of the places you'll be visiting.

Accompany us on Kauai's Original Trolley Tour! You' ll enjoy our 2.5-hour open air tour to various places around Lihue and Wailua. Explore the beauties of Kauai as you travel to cascades, viewpoints, holy places in Hawaii and historic locations. We run our daily cruise trips because there is a cruise ship in the harbour!

You' re a ship's mate? Don't sweat it. We'll make sure you get back to the boat on schedule. There is even a free trolley shuttle to and from the liner to Harbor Mall. Crusaders can take the Free Trolley Shuttle to and from the boat and Harbor Mall.

Drive through Kauai's northern shore

There is no Kauai tour without a trip along the northern coast of Kauai. Guides differ as to where the northern shore of Kauai actually begins. There are some who claim that everything that lies just northern of the city of Kapaa is part of the northern coast. We descend the steep slope from Princeville to the city of Hanalei and then along the coast to Ke'e Beach in Haena State Park.

On the way there you will see some of the truly secret jewels of the northern coast of Kauai. It is a long journey with many stopovers. If you drive from Kapaa on Highway 56 northwards, you will reach the area of Anahola in Kauai. When you don't see a city centre, it's only because there really isn't one.

Recently it was called King Kong's Profil because it resembled the big monkey's mind, which could be seen in 1976 in the new edition of "King Kong", which was partly shot on Kauai. Shortly after the 21 miles mark on Hwy 56, take the first right onto Wailapa Road.

Halfway through our steel door and parking next to the visitor centre of the orchid house Na Aina Kai (Lands by the Sea) Botanical Garden. The garden creators Joyce and Ed Doty came back to Kauai from their North California run. Aina Kai's includes a labyrinth of hedges, a water fall, a lake full of Nishikigoi, a wood with 60,000 hard-woods, kilometres of hiking paths and a wonderful remote sandy stretch of land.

Kilauea is just past the 23-mile mark on Kolo Rd. Kauea was once a large city of plantations on Kauai. Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge, just a few steps from the city, is a must. Next stop is Kauapea Island, better known as Secret Island City. From Kilauea to the shore, turn right on the first street labeled Kalihiwai Rd.

Watch out for the unsurfaced, unsealed street on the right, just a few steps from the motorway. At the end of the gravel path, parking at the side where there is an area. At the end of the street go down to the house and look for the path to the south.

This way goes to the west end of Secret Beach. It is relatively small, but partly precipitous and often slick, and the walk from the shore can be very exhausting. There are two main reason why Secret is best known. It' also known as one of Kauai's clothes option or nudist sands.

Finding nudists on the shore is a rarity, but not an impossibility. Nearest station at Kauai's north shore is Anini Bea. Take Hwy 56 westwards, crossing the Kalihiwai Bridge and turn right into Kalihiwai Rd. On Kalihiwai Rd a brief ride leads you to a crossroads.

Keep to your lefthand side on Anini Road and you will soon find yourself on the shore. These two miles long shore is one of the most scenic on Kauai, and the view is breathtaking. The longest contiguous coral shelf on the Kauai makes this area of the shore one of the most safe for snorkelling, dipping, swimming, javelin fishing, kite-surfing and wind surfing.

It has a sand bottom near the shoreline, making it ideal for kids. The Princeville is a proposed residence and housing development located on a headland between Anini Beach and Hanalei Bay. It is the lodgings of many condominiums and holiday home owners resorts, detached houses, several inns, a mall, the last petrol pump on the north bank, two championship courses of golf and the St. Regis Princeville resort.

The Hanalei Valle y look is a small road on the lefthand side, just behind the Princeville Center. The viewpoint offers a magnificent panorama of the river Hanalei and its tortoises. Hanalei River was declared the American Heritage River on July 30, 1998 by President Bill Clinton, one of only 14 in the country to receive this rating.

When you descend into the bottom of the hill, you will see that the street is now Highway 560 and the mileage markings start again from the beginning. Kilometre 1 comes before the Hanalei River overpass. You will soon arrive in the city of Hanalei. From the Tahiti Nui Restaurant and Cocktail Bar before entering the city, turn right into Aku Rd and then right again into Weke Rd.

That will take you to the Hanalei Pier and the bay. At the right side you will come across a nice house in the middle of a large meadow covered with grass. "A little further down you come to the car park for Hanalei Pier and Black Pot Park. The Hanalei Pier itself has been used in many movies, but he and the adjacent beaches are forever associated with a movie, Rogers and...MORE Hammerstein's "South Pacific".

" Most of the beachscenes were shot on the two sides of the jetty with the seamen under the direction of Luther Billis, performed by Ray Walston. Soon you will find yourself back on the motorway in the Hanalei City commercial area. Some of Hanalei City is a surfing city, some a holiday home for the wealthy and celebrities, some New Age, some old Hawaii and some 1960' hippy cultur.

There is nowhere else in Kauai you will see such an interesting group of local people mixing with tourists every day. It will take you about half an hours to get around the city on foot, but it will take much longer to get to know everything the city has to show. Hanalei has a large selection of eateries to suit almost every tastes and budget, from hamburgers and pizzas to shellfish and cuisines.

And Hanalei also has some great shops. When it has rained lately, look at the hills that make up the city. The Namolokama mountain is said to have up to 23 falls that can be seen from the city after a strong rainfall. From Hanalei the path leads around the end of the bay of Hanalei and up the crag.

Right after the 4 mile mark you will probably see a car parking at the side of the street. This belongs to people who have chosen to take the brief walk 150 foot down to one of the most attractive shores of Cauai, Lumahai Bay. It is not suitable for bathing. To the east of the shore, which can be accessed via the trail from the rock, is the most attractive, especially when the sea bangs against the cliffs that stretch from the easternmost point of the same.

It was also in the film " South Pacific " and is nicknamed "Nurses' Beach" because here Ensign Nellie Forbush, acted by Mitzi Gaynor, "washes this man right out of my hair". If you continue from Lumahai Strand to the east, you will find even nicer shores on the north coast: The Hanalei Colony is the only place in Princeville that has a great place to stay and dine.

Tunnel is one of the best snorkelling spots in Hawaii. However, it is very hard to park on this one. Tunnel and the nearest western shore, Haena Beaches. It is located directly opposite the Maniniholo Dry Cave on the lefthand side of the street.

There is a large carport, toilets, shower and barbeque area. There' s no sandy beach that protects Haena Beach, so the waves can be quite strong with strong shorebreaks and current. Pass Haena Beach, look for the Limahuli Garden entry on your lefthand side.

You can park at the Visitor Centre. Leaving Limahuli Garden, the street descends and you pass a small brook. You' ve come to the end of your trip and the end of the street in 230 hectares of Haena State Park. The Haena State Park is one of Kauai's most beloved places for local residents and tourists.

Coming out of the jungles, you will find yourself on the sea, a particularly nice place at dawn. The Haena State Park is best known for two things: The Kee Beaches and the Kalalau Trail launch. The Kee is a bustling, sheltered bathing spot that is a favourite for families, angling, snorkelling and bathing in summers because of its reef-protected Laguna.

It is surrounded by a luxuriant, thick rain forest with many iron wood species, palm groves, Ti vegetation and guavas. In a clear sunny climate, the sea provides a breathtaking view of the coast of Na Pali. Whilst the beaches are the most favourite with the locals, the end of the street is the beginning of a walk on the Kalalau Trail for many people.

Kalalau Trail offers the only entrance to the Na Pali coast from Haena to the Kalalau valley. Commencing at Kee Beach with an initial precipitous and often slick, cliffy ascent, the route traverses five large dales and ends at...MORE Kalalau Beach. It can be difficult and often skidding and risky, especially for those who choose to walk past the beach of Hanakapi'ai.