In this article you will know everything you need to know to visit Kauai.
We're gonna be hitting up some of the major attractions. I've put time codes in the description to all of them. But the highlight of what we're gonna see in this video is the following, We'll visit Waimea Canyon, the Grand Canyon of the Pacific. We'll check out some of Kauai's really awesome waterfalls then we'll see a blowhole that makes moaning sounds like a giant lizard. We'll then go for a hike on the outh Shore right along the coast. We'll visit some of Kauai's historic towns. We'll stick our toes in the and at Kalapaki Beach, a just classic Hawaiian beach and then we'll conclude with a visit to Kauai's lush North Shore. Kauai is all about adventure, zipline tours, helicopters, kayaking, lots of exciting things. There won't be a lot of that in this video. What you just saw here that's about as adventuresome as I'm gonna get but I'll let you know there are a lot of those things in Kauai. Alright on to my next adventure jumping. One of the great things about visiting Kauai is all the nature that's here, not just nature but diverse types of nature. You see it starts with the beach, the beach is around the whole island but quickly it goes from beach right here to like a pine forest. I mean the diversity of nature and how quickly it changes from desert to beats to pine trees, quite amazing. The biggest attraction on the island of Kauai is the Waimea Canyon, biggest in size but one of the most popular too. But it is 10 miles long, one mile wide and 3,600 feet deep. This canyon was created by the eruptions of the volcano, the different layers of sediment, different eruptions by the volcano. Mark Twain is commonly considered to have called it the Grand Canyon of the Pacific, though he actually never visited Kauai but that's the island legend and so come up here to view this legendary attraction.
It is free, free admission, free parking. It is, you'd wanna allocate about a half day to come up here 'cause it's a bit of a drive from the main part of the island you'll be going up to a high elevation. It can be about 10 to 15 degrees cooler up here.
This is the first lookout, it's the Waimea Canyon Lookout. There are more lookouts as you go, this one's at mile marker 10 on the road, they go up to mile marker 19 and also the major parking lots have bathrooms so you don't have to hold your bladder too much. Definitely make it to the last lookout at mile marker 19 and it's right here and the views here are breathtaking.
There's this valley down below you can see the undeveloped coastline, the soaring mountains, it's really neat. And I'm sure the video doesn't do it justice which is why you can't just watch my video to travel but you have to come to Kauai to see it. In addition to lookouts if you're into hiking Waimea Canyon has lots of great hiking paths as well. Though 'cause it is very wet make sure to bring shoes you don't care about all that much 'cause the path can get pretty muddy. Now these trails are not for those afraid of heights, it is a long way down from here.
The second biggest attraction in Kauai are waterfalls. It rains a lot here and so there's a lot of waterfalls. The coolest waterfall that's really easy to get to are the Wailua Falls, you can just drive right up to them.
You can see right back there, there's a parking lot and here's the observatory right on the side of the highway. And these waterfalls it's really cool cause you can get up very close to them, you can feel and hear the waterfall. These waterfalls at 173 feet actually are taller than Niagara Falls, though not quite as much water coming off of them. And back in ancient times people used to jump off these waterfalls as a test of manhood. I'm sure if you searched on YouTube you can find other people jumping off of them. And while it is possible to get up real close to the falls or down to the bottom, you're technically not allowed.
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