The second island from Hawaii in extension and population was until a few years ago a solitary, heavenly and unexplored place, with desert and clean beaches. Today it is quite full of ugly buildings that conceal the local real beauty. The traffic is continuous and the Agglomerations are to the agenda. Nevertheless this is the island where more facility is to practice sports like the windsurfing, the surfing, the diving, the mountain bicycle and to observe marine mammals, like big whale with the protagonist. The biggest tourist concentration gives itself on the coast west (Lahaina or Kaanapali), For which those who want to know the real island extract will have to move to the north and the East (Haiku or Kula). Hana Highway,

The first inhabitants of the archipelago were Polynesians who came from the Islands Marchioness in the Vth century. About the year 1000 there arrived Tahitians, who introduced his social order, religion and customs. The first western one in treading on these islands was the British captain James Cook, who arrived in 1778 at the Sandwich Islands, as it baptized them. Although at first it was seen like Logo, the god of fertility, there soon arose clashes that were paid by the Cook death. (more...)