宇宁: Kauai March 2025 day 3

Waimea Canyon Tour

Waimea Canyon

Another view point with Waimea river below us

one more photo..

I wanted to do a Waimea Canyon tour this trip as I remember it being really nice.

It's nice to be driven around after the big hike yesterday and take it easy for the day, although we had to get up early at 6am to get to Waipouli as Princeville is too far for the pickup. Another homemade spam sandwich breakfast day!

Rosario is the guide and driver who is quite good.

He reminded us that Kauai is one of the oldest island and made of 1 crater (not 2). And the crater collapsed on itself that form Waimea Canyon.

Most of the island are not accessible by car (>80%). As the car rental lady said, there's only1 road with 1 lane. If you go up the mountain, come back to the ocean to go home by plane =)

Bill, Rosario and chickens

The chickens are let loose during a hurricane and they were somehow never caught by locals for food. I think the locals have decided to keep them as tourist attraction and made up some stories of them being too tough to eat. Ask any local and they have jokes like boil the chicken with rocks and eat the rocks and throw out the chicken.

One of the spot we missed last year is the spouting horn in Poipu. The guide told us the banyan tree at the back of this spot is the mother of the Banyan tree in Lahaina Maui.

The mum of the Banyan tree in Lahaina

Pretty sunflower field along the way

Beautiful safari-like trees

It was raining too hard that I didn't get a good picture of the spouting horn. It made a sound by another lava tube while more than 1 lava tubes made up the spout.

Spouting horn

We went to the swinging bridge at Halapepe. The town is very cute and background for the cartoon for Lilo and Stitch.

Swinging bridge at Hanapepe

Lilo and stitch town!

Next stop is Kauai coffee which was a re-visit from 10 years ago. Difference is it's much bigger and more developed now. They used to just put out coffee canisters and you do your own refill. Now somebody is metering the coffee!

Coffee making appliances

Cute coffee cups and signs

Then we went to Waimea Canyon for the lookout followed by lunch at Kokee lodge. Lunch place was a total tourist trap but to be expected.

I don't remember going to the Waimea museum but it turns out to be very interesting. They have an old map of Kauai in 1891 showing the documentation of the parts of the island.

Kauai old map at the museum

We ended the trip with a walk to Waimea town and went to the pier. There's a cute seesaw there with 4 people willing to demonstrate how unstable it is!