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We were disappointed in this book. Not a good resource for Kauai hiking trails. We left it at the condo. Directions were vague.
I honestly did not have time to use this book as much as I would have liked. 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.
If you're interested in seeing the "real" Kauai, get this guide. 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.
It showed us all of the things we could possibly see and we were able to pick from there. This book was a great help in planning our relatively short one week stay in Hawaii. A great description of hike difficulty, what we would see along the way and how far it was to each destination.
That said, we looked to this book only for hikes, not beach walks and the like. 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). 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. This book may once have been useful, but we found it outdated to the point of uselessness. Some of the trails described no longer meaningfully existed as such, and one was a dirt road with a heavy 4wd traffic. It may be that it is a very competent guide for strolls.
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