Maui Sites to Visit

Maui Sightseeing

If you try to make a journey to Maui, there can often be a wish to try and do everything: Begin the outing with a snorkel to Molokini Crater, then press in a visit to Iao Needle before taking off to a Lau. With 30 leagues of beach and a dozen different cities, even the most demanding and vigorous travellers just don't have enough travelers.

Given the number of places of interest in Maui, it makes good business that over two third of the tourists repeat a journey to the isle. They snorkelled with tortoises at Pu'u Keka'a while they visited Ka'anapali beach and want to find new shores, cliffs and reef lines to search for them. They were watching the sun rise at Haleakala Crater and drove all the way back down, but want to see the sun rise elsewhere - let's say the eastward, deep dark sand of Wai'anapanapa State Park.

Others like Wailea and Ka'anapali, where there are lush indoor pool areas next to palms and gold sand. Lahaina's Front Street is one of the most frequented places on Maui, where stores, dining and seaside Luau are located alongside the shells.

It is also the port of Lahaina and the Lana'i boat and a place where first-time and returning divers can dive and snorkel on the boat. Pai'a and Upcountry are two of the most underestimated places in Maui on the northern shores and mountains.

The majority of tourists drive on the road to Hana through Pai'a, but those who take their sweetest moments will find places to eat, shop for surfing, shop and beach competing with the best on the Isle. Also inland it is often euphemised by travellers on the way to Haleakala, who meander through cities like Makawao and Kula without the necessary stopovers.

Makawao is one of the funniest places on Maui with only one crossroads, zero traffic lights and lots of shopping and gallery space. Kula, on the other side, is a refreshing country and farming centre, where farmhouses, fairs - and even a vineyard - offer Maui a quiet side that is seen by far too many people.

A view of Lahainas front road to Maui.