The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-02-04
WONDEHS OF MAUI
uPEN TO TOURISTS
Hotel Company Launches Scheme
Of Personally Conducted Ex-
cursions at Little Cost.
CMau Special to The Advcrtiser.J

mail Special to The Advertisef.)
WAIBUKU, January 3l.-With Man
ager w. II. Field of the Maui Hotel AS
sponsor, plans have been launched
whereby, through low excursion rates,
Maui will be enabled to come into her
own as regards the tourist trade and
visitors from all parts Of the world
will be able to look on scenic wonders
which have hitherto been almost mac
cessiblc to the ordinary traveller, and
to make the trip in comfort with a min
mum of cost.
For twenty-five dollars the tourist
con come from Honolulu to Maui. visit
the ancient capital Of the Hawaiiq
Islands, pass through Hawaiian viz
lagos where the islanders live as they
did fifty years ago, view the beautiful
lao Valley, the Yosemite of Hawaii, ~
see other mountain and marine scenery
unsurpassed in the Islands, and all for
the sum mentioned and in three days
time, including the steamer voyage gO
ing and coming.
For fifty dollars the tourist will see
everything included in the cheaper trip
and in, addition will be able to visit
the great crater of HalealIala, (House
of the SUM, the object of chief inter
est to tourist or scientist on Maui.
Heretofore this trip has been made
only mt great cost and Inconvenience.
but under the management of Mr..
Field board and lodging at firstelass
hotels, guides, automobiles, carr ages
and saddlehorses are all arranged for
and included in the original cost, of the
trip. The itinerary of this excur Eon
covers five days.
The details of the two trips are as
follows:
No. Excursion.
Leave Honolulu Saturdays, 3 p. M,
per S. S. Mauna Kea; arrive Lahaina
about 8 p. m. Pioneer Hotel, Lahaina;
overnight. Sunday morning visiting
points of interest about bahama Tie
first Capital of the Hawaiian Islands.
The cocoanut trees and tropical vegea
tatiOn of this old settlement afford the
greatest attraction to the stranger
Here tie hardy whalerr formerly made
his rendezvous during winter months.
Over 100 whaling vessels Fave been i'm
this harbor at one time. To this day
traces of the old trading stores are Wis
ibe The LahainalunR school is To-
Gated back of the town, and is the oldt
est school west of the Rocky mountains.
Excursionists will leave the Pioneer
Hotel at 10 u. IN. Sunday, for a trip
around the North Maui CdEst to War
luku, arriving at the Maui Hotel abou t
8 p. Ut. II
First Stage in 1Arshg p
The first stage of,this trip is made by
automobile, through the Pioneer lMiH
Sugar estate and Honolhap Ranch, 10
Honokohau. (This is the" eSd of tlSe
Toad for vehfcTes). Saddle HORSES, with
competent guide, will be waiting, and
the journey VIII be continued to Ka-
bakuloa passing through ancient HID
waiian villages, where modes, of living
have Eot changed greatly during tdie
past hnff-century, owing to- the slark
of landings along the preeSpitousf cliffs
and being inaccessible except by hoHse
Trail. The scenery is gran4 beyond de-
seriptfoE, and affords delighrful marine
views, aS well as scenes of historical in
tercst of Early Hawaii, which will be
! explained by the guide en'goute.
Carriages VIII be Waiting at Kfba-
lSuIoa, and the last stage Of trip will
BE made via Wainee to- NTailuku. Din
Nor, night and breakfast. at the Maui
Hotel.
| Early Monday morning. automobiles
will be waiting to make the excursion
into tire beautiful lao Valley 1.-The
Yosemite of Hawaii" stopping to see
the famous tNeedle,p IN isolated peak
raising over 1000 feet and rerurnin G
for lunch at Msui Houel. About foul
pm. the return win bs- made, liz auto
mobiles around the south coast to La
haina, n distance of 22 miles over
: beautiful ofied maca dlrmized rusd. Din
ner ut Pioneer Hotel, steamer MaunI
Kea for home, arriving at Honolulu
early Tuesday morning.
No. 2 Excursion.
/ No. . Excursion Includes al of itine
4 rary of No. l Excursion. but instead o
going to Lahaina to catch the MaMni
Kea on Monday, the excuFsionist will
remain at the Maui Hotel, Waikiki, un
til $40 am. Tuesday morning whel
train WIN he taken for Raia, tina frs
: stage Of the trip to the summit o
: Haleakala. Returning in time 10 talk
the Clhudine from Kahului five pm
Wednesday, arriving Honolulu earl
: Thursday morning.
J. Haleakala fHouse OF the SUM-, is ns
J. turslly the object of chief interest I
). tourist or scientist on the Island q
: Maui. The highest point of its ri
,. rises l0,03s feet above sea level; Will
). from the edge OF the great bowl, 9
,. miles in circumference, the almost We
;. teal wallis drop to a cinderstrewn fioC
IS half-a-miie or mere below. The sun
a, nit Of the mountain is well above II
/. usual cloud belt, and from this magn
) fcent vantage point tho entire islam
a spreads ont below the observer like
4 great eolored map while all Of the
y lands Of the group, with the exceptis
OF Kauai, may he soen easily in elsl
= weather, The great snow-eapped peal
>" Of Mauua Kea and Nauna Loa, on II
wall, loom mp Ia the south as thou
10 scarcely dozen miles away while n
o. actual distance 10 upwards u one hu
o. dFed.
~ The trip 10 tho summit Is made frs
~ pnia, the terminus ~ the kahului Ra
20 road from whence the iistanre
A. about 2a miles. One night AMI most
two DAVIS are required fof he Iou
tnp from raia.
i1m psiA ihr imfrirf lrYn
NHhawho, 1900 foot % elevation, .
a iltiHHff nj tfYrn milrs. where hou
arc procured for che remsInIng ats
q mIlfs on Ri SONS hdilt'nnal eKnen