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Flights to Kauai arrive at the capital, LIHUE , which stands slightly
inland of little Nawiliwili Harbor. It's roughly at the midpoint
of the round-island highway (prevented from completing a loop by
the Na Pali cliffs), but as a base it's pretty undistinguished.
The population is just five thousand, and downtown consists of a
few tired plantation-town streets, well back from the sea and surrounded
by anonymous malls.
The small Kauai Museum at 4428 Rice St (Mon-Fri 9am-4pm, Sat 10am-4pm;
$5) traces the island's history from the mythical menehune (the
most ancient Hawaiian people) through Captain Cook's 1778 landfall
and on to its sugar-growing heyday. Kauai was the one island not
conquered by Kamehameha the Great; he spent six years amassing a
fleet that never sailed, and settled in the end for accepting economic
tribute.
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