Hike Maui is the oldest adventure/eco land tour on Maui. Begun in 1983, our guides are all trained naturalists who weave geology, botany, ethnobotany and history in amongst the fun of hiking. Their stories are inspiring and fascinating, and you can read about them at www.hikemaui.com/guides.html.
We intend to introduce you to the natural beauty of Maui; teach you the history and workings of nature; guide you safely into pristine and breath-taking environments; and share with you the uplifting energy of this island in a way that expands awareness, increases well-being and instills a sense of wonder and awe at the workings of nature.
Please see our web site at www.hikemaui.com for a more complete description of our program, slide shows and more pictures as well as biographies of our guides.
ACTIVITIES:
On the north side of Maui tour a rain forest valley of pools and waterfalls. Hike one mile (round trip) to two pools and waterfalls of 10 and 20 feet high. It's a fun spot to play, a beautiful place to visit. Swimming is optional, but it's terrific fun to swim under the waterfalls or climb a banyan tree and jump into a deep pool. The rain forest can be dark and mysterious; the pools sunny and refreshing.
>>> SUMMARY <<<
- one mile hike round trip
- moderate for most; easy for many
- remote wilderness rain forest valley
- fun spot to play; beautiful place to visit
- two waterfalls from 10 and 20 feet high
- swim under the falls and jump into the pools
All this and it's only THREE HOURS!
>>> DETAILS <<<
Meet us in Central Maui at 9:30 a.m., then ride in our van 30 minutes to the trail. Return at 12:30 p.m. Price $80 plus tax.
Optional Pick up at the various hotels from 8:00 to 8:45 a.m., depending on the distance from Kahului. Return at 1:00 to 1:30 p.m. Price $100 plus tax.
Afternoon tours are available by special arrangement for a minimum of 6 persons or payment for 6. If this is your preference, please mention this in the comments box on the reservation form.
Private hikes are available. We also can make special arrengements for large groups. Please call or email us for rates and details.
Minimum age 4.
>>> CREDENTIALS <<<
Hike Maui is the oldest, most experienced hiking company in the state - celebrating 28 years (since 1983) of award-winning adventures. In the annual Maui News business competition, we were awarded Maui's Best Eco-Friendly Company designation for 2009. For 2010 the Hawaii Eco-Tourism Association chose us as the EcoTourism Operator of the Year.
We are renowned to have the most thorough training on Maui, and our guides are considered the best. They are naturalists who weave geology, botany, ethnobotany, Hawaiian culture and history into the fun of hiking and swimming. Our guides are certified in water safety, Wilderness First Aid and professional CPR.
It's unusual for a rain forest valley to have this many waterfalls close together, so this is a popular spot on Maui's famous Hana Highway. But, since we know the owners well, we're the only tour company allowed in the valley. We hike 2.5 miles round trip to four or five waterfalls from 10 to 40 feet high. Great waterfalls, big, clear swimming pools, terrific bamboo and tropical rain forests, fresh-water streams. You may even jump off rock cliffs into the pools. It's fun and it's beautiful. And the waterfalls can't be beat.
>>> SUMMARY <<<
- 2.5 miles round trip
- moderate for some; easy for most
- very popular valley on famous Hana Highway
- five waterfalls 10 to 40 feet high
- rope swinging into two pools
- jumping off rock cliffs from 5 to 15 feet
- We are the only tour company allowed in the valley.
>>> DETAILS <<<
Meet in Central Maui at 9:30 a.m., then ride with us a half-hour to the trail. Return at 2:30 p.m. Price $120.
Optional resort transfer with pickups from 8:00 a.m. to 8:45 a.m., depending on the distance from Kahului. Return at 3:00 to 3:30 p.m. Price $140 plus tax.
Private hikes are available. We also can make special arrengements for large groups. Please call or email us for rates and details.
Minimum age 6.
>>> CREDENTIALS <<<
Hike Maui is the oldest, most experienced hiking company in the state - celebrating 28 years (since 1983) of award-winning adventures. In the annual Maui News business competition, we were awarded Maui's Best Eco-Friendly Company designation for 2009. For 2010 the Hawaii Eco-Tourism Association chose us as the EcoTourism Operator of the Year.
We are renowned to have the most thorough training on Maui, and our guides are considered the best. They are naturalists who weave geology, botany, ethnobotany, Hawaiian culture and history into the fun of hiking and swimming. Our guides are certified in water safety, Wilderness First Aid and professional CPR.
It's unusual for a rain forest valley to have this many waterfalls close together, so this is a popular spot on Maui's famous Hana Highway. But, since we know the owners well, we're the only tour company allowed in the valley. We hike 2.5 miles round trip to four or five waterfalls from 10 to 40 feet high. Great waterfalls, big, clear swimming pools, terrific bamboo and tropical rain forests, fresh-water streams. You may even jump off rock cliffs into the pools. It's fun and it's beautiful. And the waterfalls can't be beat.
>>> SUMMARY <<<
- 2.5 miles round trip
- moderate for some; easy for most
- very popular valley on famous Hana Highway
- five waterfalls 10 to 40 feet high
- rope swinging into two pools
- jumping off rock cliffs from 5 to 15 feet
- We are the only tour company allowed in the valley.
>>> DETAILS <<<
Meet in Central Maui at 9:30 a.m., then ride with us a half-hour to the trail. Return at 2:30 p.m. Price $120.
Optional resort transfer with pickups from 8:00 a.m. to 8:45 a.m., depending on the distance from Kahului. Return at 3:00 to 3:30 p.m. Price $140 plus tax.
Private hikes are available. We also can make special arrengements for large groups. Please call or email us for rates and details.
Minimum age 6.
>>> CREDENTIALS <<<
Hike Maui is the oldest, most experienced hiking company in the state - celebrating 28 years (since 1983) of award-winning adventures. In the annual Maui News business competition, we were awarded Maui's Best Eco-Friendly Company designation for 2009. For 2010 the Hawaii Eco-Tourism Association chose us as the EcoTourism Operator of the Year.
We are renowned to have the most thorough training on Maui, and our guides are considered the best. They are naturalists who weave geology, botany, ethnobotany, Hawaiian culture and history into the fun of hiking and swimming. Our guides are certified in water safety, Wilderness First Aid and professional CPR.
Maui's ultimate waterfall wonderland--the pristine Kipahulu Valley, an area still described as Old Hawai'i. We hike 4.5-miles (round trip) along national park trails following the most beautiful stream on Maui. It's hard to say which is the most heart stopping: the 200-foot waterfall seen from a spectacular lookout or the 400-foot falls at the end of the trail. Or it could be the break in the greenery where the rain forest becomes a giant forest of solid bamboo. There is nothing like a dark hike through dense bamboo. The whole place is so spectacular it should be a national park. And it is.
>>> SUMMARY <<<<
- a narrated, two-an-a-half-hour drive on the Hana Highway
- 4.5 mile hike in the national park on park service trails
- 'Ohe'o Gulch - some of Maui's most magnificent streams
- a network of pools and cascading waterfalls
- acres of towering bamboo
- huge rain forest of tropical plants and trees
- 45-foot, 200-foot, 400-foot waterfalls and more
- lunch and snacks included.
>>> DETAILS <<<<
Meet in Central Maui at 7 a.m. Return at 6 p.m. Price $165 plus tax per person.
Complimentary resort transfer is available with pickup times between 6:00 and 6:30 a.m. and return times between 6:30 and 7:00 p.m., depending upon your distance from Kahului.
Minimum age 8.
>>> CREDENTIALS <<<
Hike Maui is the oldest, most experienced hiking company in the state - celebrating 28 years (since 1983) of award-winning adventures. In the annual Maui News business competition, we were awarded Maui's Best Eco-Friendly Company designation for 2009. For 2010 the Hawaii Eco-Tourism Association chose us as the EcoTourism Operator of the Year.
We are renowned to have the most thorough training on Maui, and our guides are considered the best. They are naturalists who weave geology, botany, ethnobotany, Hawaiian culture and history into the fun of hiking and swimming. Our guides are certified in water safety, Wilderness First Aid and professional CPR.
Grandeur, majesty, vastness. Haleakala's energy is intense and ethereal, and it's absolutely silent. We'd never visit Maui without experiencing the Crater. It's where our guides go for inspiration. A great amphitheater of silence and expansiveness. A place of beauty that always evokes awe. The four-mile trip is a good Crater sampler -- we hike through three very different environments with views stretching for more than a hundred miles in all directions. We hike two miles at the 8,000-foot level through native alpine scrub forest on a lava rock trail where most of the plants are rare, endemic species. We then hike another two miles at 10,000 feet along a sandy cinder path called Sliding Sands Trail, a route famous for its panorama of giant cinder cones, each one colored in the rose-orange-tan hues of the desert. An extra for those interested in endemic birds: we can do a half-mile loop trail at 7,000 feet through Hosmer Grove, a temperate dry-land cloud forest.
>>> SUMMARY <<<
- Haleakala means House of the Sun
- It is Maui's most famous volcano (dormant)
- hike two miles at the 8,000-ft. level
- hike two miles at the 10,000-ft. summit
- experience three different environments
- an aerobic hike with about 1000 feet of elevation change round-trip
- experience a high alpine desert
- for birders: rare endemic birds at 7,000 feet
>>> DETAILS <<<
Meet in Central Maui at 9:30. Return at 4:30 p.m. Price $145 plus tax.
Complimentary resort transfer is available with pickups from 8:00 to 9:00 a.m. Return at 5:00 to 5:30 p.m., depending upon your distance from Kahului.
Minimum age: 8
>>> CREDENTIALS <<<
Hike Maui is the oldest, most experienced hiking company in the state - celebrating 28 years (since 1983) of award-winning adventures. In the annual Maui News business competition, we were awarded Maui's Best Eco-Friendly Company designation for 2009. For 2010 the Hawaii Eco-Tourism Association chose us as the EcoTourism Operator of the Year.
We are renowned to have the most thorough training on Maui, and our guides are considered the best. They are naturalists who weave geology, botany, ethnobotany, Hawaiian culture and history into the fun of hiking and swimming. Our guides are certified in water safety, Wilderness First Aid and professional CPR.
Do it all -- waterfall and rain forest hike, ocean kayak and snorkel -- all in one trip. This tour showcases Maui's beauty both offshore and onshore. First, we kayak along West Maui's rugged coastline for 2.5 hours. We snorkel by sliding off the kayak into a sea filled with colorful fish and large, green sea turtles. Then we hike the one-mile Short Waterfalls Walk. We're hiking to two waterfalls, from 10 to 20 feet high, where we swim, climb and jump into clear, fresh pools. No experience needed for the kayak. We teach you well.
>>> SUMMARY <<<
- 2.5 hours of ocean kayaking
- snorkel off the kayak with green sea turtles
- we drive you 50 minutes from the desert to the rain forest
- 1 mile hike (the "Short Waterfalls Walk")
- moderate for most, easy for many
- remote wilderness rain forest valley
- two waterfalls, 10 and 20 feet high
- cliffs up to 15 feet to leap from (optional)
>>> DETAILS <<<
7:15 a.m. meet Kelii Kayak Co.(our partner) on the beach at Olowalu
2:30 p.m. return to your car. Price $160 plus tax per person
>>> CREDENTIALS <<<
Hike Maui is the oldest, most experienced hiking company in the state - celebrating 28 years (since 1983) of award-winning adventures. In the annual Maui News business competition, we were awarded Maui's Best Eco-Friendly Company designation for 2009. For 2010 the Hawaii Eco-Tourism Association chose us as the EcoTourism Operator of the Year.
We are renowned to have the most thorough training on Maui, and our guides are considered the best. They are naturalists who weave geology, botany, ethnobotany, Hawaiian culture and history into the fun of hiking and swimming. Our guides are certified in water safety, Wilderness First Aid and professional CPR.
Cancellation Policy: If you cancel 48 hours or more prior to the date of the event, you will receive a full refund less a 10% cancellation fee. If you cancel within 48 hours for any reason, you will receive no refund. If Hike Maui cancels (which we do for dangerous weather), you will receive a full 100% refund.
