Hawaii: The Rough Guide (2nd Edition) - Softcover

Ward, Greg; Rough Guides

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1858283388 ISBN 13: 9781858283388

Verlag: Rough Guides, 1998

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A guide to Hawaii and the surrounding region, this text presents in depth articles on Hawaii's ancient culture; reviews of restaurants, bars and accommodation; and informative features ranging from the death of Captain Cook to the legend of Pele, the volcano goddess.

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Greg Ward is an established travel writer and expert on the islands of Hawaii. He has worked for Rough Guides since 1985. He is the author of The Rough Guide to Barcelona (with Steve Tallantyre), The Rough Guide to Brittany and Normandy, and The Rough Guide to Southwest USA. Visit him online at gregward.info.

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Climate and When to Go

Although Hawaii's high season for tourism is mid-December to March, when room rates rise by perhaps $20 per night, its climate remains pretty constant year-round.

Specific information for each island appears in the chapter introductions throughout this book. In general, despite the power of the tropical sun, Hawaii is not prone to extremes. Temperatures in all the major coastal resorts vary between a daily maximum of around 80 degress F (27 degrees C) from January to March up to perhaps 87 degrees F (30 degrees C) from July to October. Rainfall is heaviest from December to March, but while the mountaintops are among the wettest places on earth, you'd have to be very unlucky to get enough rain in any of the resort areas to spoil your vacation.

The one seasonal variation that does affect tourists is in the state of the ocean. Along protected stretches of the shoreline, you can expect to be able to swim all year round in beautiful seas where the water temperature stays between 75 degrees F and 82 degrees F (24-28 degrees C). From October to April, however, high surf can render unsheltered beaches dangerous in the extreme, and some beaches even lose their sand altogether. Conditions on specific beaches are indicated throughout this book; see also the section on Ocean Safety on p.32. For most of the year, the trade winds blow in from the northeast, though they're occasionally replaced by humid "Kona winds" from the south. Despite the much-publicized onslaught of Hurricane Iniki on Kauai in September 1992, hurricanes are very rare. However tsunamis (often erroneously called tidal waves) do hit from time to time, generally as a result of earthquakes or landslides caused by volcanic eruptions.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Rough Guides
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1858283388
• ISBN 13: 9781858283388
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 576
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