Hawaii expert authors' Top 10 places to sightsee, eat, shop, stay and play bonus excursions to Lana'i and Moloka'i new Maui Outdoors chapter covers activities, from extreme water sports to family-friendly waterfall hikes more maps than any other competition guide the island of Maui arose from two volcanoes Maui has only two distinct seasons, kau (summer) and ho'oilo (winter) the Ma'alaea Pipeline is rated by Surfing magazine as one of the world's 10 best breaks. And a 'stick' is local slang for a surfboard in 2003 the US military handed back control of Kaho'olawe, a culturally important island near Maui that had been used for bombing practice for over 50 years the majority of Hawaii's 10,000 species of endemic flora & fauna are found nowhere else on earth a personal lei greeting at any Hawaiian airport costs about USUSD20