Welcome to the Island of Maui - "The Valley Isle"

The Island of Maui is known as the "Valley Isle" because of the huge valley between its two volcanoes. It's no accident that for the eleventh consecutive year, Maui has been voted "The Best Island in the World" by the Conde Nast Traveler Readers Choice Awards Poll.

Maui has so much to offer within its limited forty-eight mile long and two mile high package. There are as many different climatic zones here as exist along the entire coast extending from Alaska to Costa Rica. These variations extend from the hot and balmy white sand beach coastlines of Kihei, Makena, Kaanapali and Lahaina to the occasional snow covered peaks of MountHaleakala, to the wild jungle of Hana, to the desert scapes of lower Kanaio, to the eucalyptus forests of Ulupalakua or Olinda, to the the Redwood forests of of Polipoli or to the rain-drenched slopes of the second wettest spot on Earth, Puu Kukui.

Each area has its own unique charm and provides a venue for its own unique form of island activities. Stargazing tours can be found at the top of Haleakala. Downhill bike tours cruise from the crater top to the beaches below. Horseback expeditions ride down into the bowl of the crater. Zip-line tours glide over upcountry Kula. Visit Tom Barefoot's unique Maui Spa Retreat that can be found in the Olinda eucalyptus forest region.

Fantastic snorkeling and sailing tours and activities are available on half-day trips out to the close-by island of Molokini. Great diving abounds off Molokini and the nearby island of Lanai. ATV rides climb over upcountry ranch lands. World famous surfing, windsurfing and kitesurfing can be found off Maui's North Shore.

The seacoast town of Lahaina provides a departure point for parasailing flights, rafting adventures, dinner and sunset cruises, whale watching tours, submarine and glassbottom boat rides, and fishing charters as well as being a mecca for shopping, restaurants, spectacular evening shows and art galleries which are famous through out the Pacific. A wide variety of luaus are found in the Lahaina and Kaanapali areas as well as South Maui. In addition, the whole island can be enjoyed via a host of different land tours or horseback rides and of course above it all you will be thrilled by the breathtaking sights to be seen from Maui's lofty helicopter fleet.

No Hawaiian island offers so much to the visitor as Maui, the Valley Isle.