Comments on: Seven Sacred Maui Spots

By: Olya

Olya — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 21:21:47 +0000

In reply to Mike. Amazing story... Thank you.

By: Maui Hawaii

Maui Hawaii — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 20:53:19 +0000

In reply to Kirk Nason. We discourage visitors from driving upper west. Kinda dangerous driving. I agree about La Perouse Bay though!

By: Kirk Nason

Kirk Nason — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 16:58:55 +0000

Honolua Bay, past Kapalua, IMHO has the best snorkeling in the summer months. It’s a designated Nature Preserve. Olowalu does not compare.

Also in the winter has amazing waves to see big wave surfing from the cliffs above

By: Kirk Nason

Kirk Nason — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 16:47:51 +0000

You left out La Perouse Bay, the last of the significant lava flows on Maui and the area of the first foreigner to step foot on Maui.

Kahakuloa Beach where time stands still, due to it’s remoteness and one lane road, occupied by Hawaiian families and home of the best banana bread on the island.
You have experienced Maui until you drive all the way around the rugged Northwest side of Maui
Olivine Pools
Nakalele Blowhole

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 21:09:17 +0000

I had the privilege of spending 6 months living in Hana last year and really loved taking the time to find new waterfalls. One of my favorite hikes to do was go out to Oheo Gulch and hike up through the Bamboo forest to the large waterfall but ended up falling in love with a small one to the right of the trail. I spent many days looking at the waterfall from up above and continued to try and find a way to get down to it as the ledge was too steep to climb down and if i had the courage to just jump into it’s pool…there would be no way back out. So i always assumed that this waterfall would be nothing more than a nice thing to look at. But one day a friend i had made in town who had heard me speak about this 1 waterfall many times passed me a note which read “At the gate, head to the river. Cross it and leave your pack beneath the banyan tree. Then swim”. It took me many days to figure out what this note was for and it wasn’t until i was hiking one day did i understand what it meant. I reached the cattle gate and instead of continuing forward, i took a right at the gate. I came to the river and sure enough directly across it was a large banyan tree which provided a hidden place to leave my belongings. I then continued with my instructions and began to swim up river which lead me under colorful rocks ceilings where the river had cut out the land from higher flows over the years, it was really beautiful. It brought me to a small 5 ft waterfall which i began to climb up and as soon as my head reached the top, i was located at the edge of the pool that was filled by the waterfall i had stared at for so many days. I spent many hours there sitting in the mist and admiring how beautiful it was glowing in the sunlight from a new angle. The day i reached my waterfall was one of my favorite days/memories.

By: Activity Authority

Activity Authority — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 08:13:13 +0000

In reply to Aron kealoha. Aloha Aron: Thank you for reaching out and sincere apologies for the offense you took to our reference to the Battle of Kepaniwai. We should have clarified that in addition to being called “Battle of the Damned Waters of ‘Iao,” the 1790 war—as we understand it—was also called Ka‘uwa‘upali, which came to be known as Battle of the Clawed Cliffs. This came to our attention through Ulukau: The Hawaiian Electronic Library, which is co-sponsored by the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo and the Native Hawaiian Library (and funded in part by the NEA). This is further backed up by Paul D’Arcy—an Associate Professor of Pacific History at Australian National University’s College of Asia and the Pacific—who states in Transforming Hawai‘i: Balancing Coercion and Consent in Eighteenth-Century Kanaka Maoli Statecraft that “Traditions remember the battle as ka‘uwa‘upali (clawed off the cliff) and ke pani wai (the damning of the waters).” It’s also referenced as such in Sid Campbell’s Warrior Arts and Weapons of Ancient Hawai’i. The battle is further referred to as “precipice-clawing” on Hawaiianencyclopedia.com, which, it says, refers “to the fleeing warriors climbing the steep cliffs of ‘Iao Valley as they tried to escape.” I hope this provides some clarification over the issue, and please know that we meant neither harm nor disrespect. Our best, Activity Authority

By: Aron kealoha

Aron kealoha — Fri, 07 Jun 2019 22:38:16 +0000

Aloha,

I’m sorry but I had to stop reading this after the first location you read off. Iao Valley, normally I don’t do this but I felt a huge disrespect reading this. The battle of kepaniwai was never called battle of clawed cliffs.. because wai means water and kepaniwai means dammed water.. you know because the water was dammed up by the bodies of the warriors that died in that river.

That’s what kepaniwai means, as a Hawaiian and a tour guide. Please fix your stories before you publish non-sense and make my people look bad.