Love Is In the Air on Maui’s – An Island Paradise
Bask on the White Sands of Kapalua Beach
This beautiful area is a lover’s paradise with gentle waters, perhaps humpbacks breaching offshore, and the cool, clear Pacific stretching endlessly into the distance.
Take Romantic Walks In Iao Valley State Park and Kepaniwai Park Gardens
Historic Iao Valley in the Wailuku will impress your date, especially when you see the 1,200-foot-tall Iao Needle. It is also fun to visit the Hawaii Nature Center and the Interactive Nature Museum which features many hands-on exhibits about local culture and natural history. The Nature Center is open from 10 to 4 daily.
While you are here you should also visit the Kepaniwai Heritage Garden and where various immigrant cultures – Japanese, Chinese, Portugues, Filipinos, and New Englanders – are honored with ethnic displays including traditional dwellings.
Enjoy a Sunset Sail out of Lahaina Harbor
Nothing fosters romance like sailing offshore and looking back at the Maui coastline as the evening lights appear along with the first stars and perhaps the moon. Evening cruises allow you to enjoy the calmer waters when the winds have died down and the glassy sea sweeps you away into your loved ones arms.
Enjoy A Maui Tropical Plantation Tram Ride
The Maui Tropical Plantation is sure to set the mood as a tram whisks you around the historic area and educates you about ancient culture, growing sugarcane, and more.
You will be fed fruit, drink from coconuts, and even makes some fragrant leis that you can adorn your mate with – the ultimate aphrodisiac!
Afterwards you can take a stroll through the Country Store and browse amongst all of the locally-made products. The Maui Tropical Plantation & Country Store (808-244-7643) is located at 1670 Honoapiilani Highway and is open from 9 to 5 daily.
Visit the Spa Grande at the Grand Wailea Resort
Pamper yourself at this full service spa (808-875-1234) where you and your mate can get in the mood with relaxing his and her massages and she can get a facial and perhaps some aromatherapy. Afterwards soak in a jacuzzi together. This impressive resort is grand in all of its features and will make you feel like multi-millionaires.
Ride Horses On A Volcano
Your scrapbook will surely include photos of the memorable time you have together riding horses on the gentle rolling lower slopes of Haleakala Volcano. For more information call Haleakala Ranch (667-2200) in Kula
Drive the Road to Heavenly Hana
Make sure and stop at Wailua Falls at Mile Marker 18 where you and your partner can feel the misty spray and let it take you away into a dreamy fantasy. Stop frequently along the route to explore streams and valleys and scenic views of the azure Pacific.
Along the way to Hana you will pass the famous windsurfing beach called Hookipa and then proceed along rugged lava coastline past countless waterfalls. Stop at all of the wayside parks with waterfall views, and don’t be in a hurry because it will cause you to get woozy as you cross the 56 bridges and round 617 turns. Tip: Fast equals car sickness, slow equals romantic.
Mention to your partner that each of the bridges on the road to Hana has its own poetic name, and then perhaps pen your own love poem to commemorate the occasion.
There are also several opportunities along this route to take short hikes into the surrounding forest, and near the end of the route is beautiful Waianapanapa State Park where a grassy lawn is set above the black sand beach. This coastline is adorned with lava stone arches, sea caves and tidepools, and is a perfect place to stay a while, lay out a picnic blanket, open a bottle of wine, present your poem and profess your love.
Afterwards you can go to dinner at the Hotel Hana Maui and slow dance to some soothing tones of local Hawaiian music.