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I left the book with my friend who was staying longer on the island and she used the book and was quite pleased with the accuracy of the information provided. I honestly did not have time to use this book as much as I would have liked.
Dozens of wonderful hikes, with maps, from easy walks to challenging, are all covered.A MUST HAVE for the tourist that wants more than Poipu. If you're interested in seeing the "real" Kauai, get this guide.
A great description of hike difficulty, what we would see along the way and how far it was to each destination. This book was a great help in planning our relatively short one week stay in Hawaii. It showed us all of the things we could possibly see and we were able to pick from there.
That said, we looked to this book only for hikes, not beach walks and the like. This book may once have been useful, but we found it outdated to the point of uselessness. This book doesn't describe that many more hikes than the Ultimate Guidebook does, but the way some trails are broken into several hikes makes it seem at first glance that it does. It may be that it is a very competent guide for strolls. Some of the trails described no longer meaningfully existed as such, and one was a dirt road with a heavy 4wd traffic. After having been mislead one too many times, we abandoned this book completely and relied only on the trail descriptions in The Ultimate Kauai Guidebook: Kauai Revealed (Ultimate Kauai Guidebook).
Excellent text and very detailed. Since we are birders this was very beneficial. This was one of two books we used while hiking Kauai. The description of floral and birds one might see on certain trails was extremely good.
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