Poipu Resort Area

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No Hawaii resort has a better entrance: On Maluhia Road, eucalyptus trees planted in 1911 as a windbreak for sugar cane fields now form a monumental tree tunnel. The leafy-green, cool tunnel starts at Kaumualii Highway; you'll emerge at the golden-red beach. The Poipu Beach Resort Foundation (tel. 808/742-4444; www.koloaheritagetrail.info) produces a free brochure called the Koloa Heritage Trail, which is a 10-mile walk, bike ride, or drive that has some 14 historical stops and markers describing the history and culture of this area. The Historic Trail begins at Spouting Horn and finishes at the Koloa Mission Church in Koloa town. The trail is a great idea, but a few of the sites are either no longer there (like site number 10 on Hapa Road, where the pre-contact evidence of ancient Hawaiians is no longer), changed beyond what they once were (site number 13, the Yamamoto Store and Koloa Hotel, now gone), or difficult to get to (like site number 9, Pu'uwanawana Volcanic Cone, which you can see in the distance from the highway, but is located on fenced private property).

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