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Photograph by Susan Seubert
Sea, sky, solitude: The stone-strewn beach at Kahakuloa, reached by a narrow cliff-hugging road, is one of numerous unheralded finds on the island of Maui.
Read more in "Maui: Is There Anything Left to Discover?" from the March 2010 issue of National Geographic Traveler.
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Photograph by Susan Seubert
It takes a family: Children prepare for a fishing excursion with their parents near their village of Kahakuloa, on West Maui's rugged north shore.
Read more in "Maui: Is There Anything Left to Discover?" from the March 2010 issue of National Geographic Traveler.
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Photograph by Macduff Everton
Old Hawaiian traditions, such as taking to the sea in outrigger canoes, are still practiced on Maui.
Read more in "Maui: Is There Anything Left to Discover?" from the March 2010 issue of National Geographic Traveler.
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Photograph by Susan Seubert
Portable potables—fruit shakes, tropical juices—are featured at the Smoothie Bus, which parks at one end of Kahakuloa village.
Read more in "Maui: Is There Anything Left to Discover?" from the March 2010 issue of National Geographic Traveler.
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Photograph by Susan Seubert
Considered by some the top banana-bread stand on Maui, Julia's Best Banana Bread, on Maui's north shore, also purveys taro chips and coconut candy.
Read more in "Maui: Is There Anything Left to Discover?" from the March 2010 issue of National Geographic Traveler.
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Photograph by Susan Seubert
Uncle Richard Ho'opi'i, a standard-bearer of the Hawaiian musical art leo ki'eki'e (falsetto), plays a Hawaiian slack-key-style guitar in the Congregational church in his native village of Kahakuloa. Ho'opi'i and his brother Solomon formed the popular duo The Ho'opi'i Brothers in the 1970s, performing traditional island music that in 1996 earned them a Folk Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Read more in "Maui: Is There Anything Left to Discover?" from the March 2010 issue of National Geographic Traveler.
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Photograph by Susan Seubert
Blossoms of plumeria, also known as frangipani, are a common sight on Maui, where they are cultivated for lei garlands.
Read more in "Maui: Is There Anything Left to Discover?" from the March 2010 issue of National Geographic Traveler.
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Photograph by Susan Seubert
Hidey hole for two: Pocket-size Upper Makamaka'ole Falls offers visitors a just-you-and-me experience along Maui's north shore.
Read more in "Maui: Is There Anything Left to Discover?" from the March 2010 issue of National Geographic Traveler.
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Photograph by Susan Seubert
Wearing traditional tattoos, a fisherman readies fishing nets for casting along West Maui's north shore.
Read more in "Maui: Is There Anything Left to Discover?" from the March 2010 issue of National Geographic Traveler.
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Photograph by Susan Seubert
Cupped in a coastal hollow, wee Kahakuloa boasts a private setting—and likes it that way.
Read more in "Maui: Is There Anything Left to Discover?" from the March 2010 issue of National Geographic Traveler.
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