Makawao, HI Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

The small town of MAKAWAO , seven miles up from coastal Pa'ia, represents Maui at its best. Still recognizable as the village built by plantation workers and paniolo cowboys in the nineteenth century, it's now home to an active artistic community dominated by 1970s exiles from California. When they're not giving each other classes in yoga, feng shui, belly dancing and Hawaiian healing, they make its galleries, crafts stores and coffee bars some of the liveliest hangouts on the island. Makawao – "edge of the forest" – barely existed before Kamehameha III chose it as the site of … more »