Hawaii Travel Guides,
Magazines & Maps to Plan By

Essential Hawaii travel guides and maps to assist in
your planning that "perfect" vacation. Why guess
at what's best when you can know before you go.

Basic Facts

BIOLOGY

Hawaii has a wide variety of plant, marine and animal. Vegetation zones include: tropical, coastal, dryland forest, mixed open forest, rain forest, subalpine and alpine. Over 90 percent of the native plants and animals
living in Hawaii are found nowhere else in the world, and a greater variety of fish exist in Hawaiian waters than elsewhere. The official state fish is humuhumunukunukuapuaa.

Hawaii is occasionally called the Endangered Species Capital of the World. At least one third of all the endangered species in the United States are found in Hawaii including the Nene Goose (official state bird), the Humpback Whale (official state marine mammal), the Pacific Green Sea Turtle and the Pueo (Hawaiian owl).

CLIMATE
Hawaii has only two seasons: "summer" between May and October and "winter" between October and April.

GEOGRAPHY
Hawaii is the most remote island chain in the world, over 2,000 miles from the nearest landfall.

Hawaii consists of 8 major islands and 124 minor islands. The 8 major islands (which cover over 99% of the total land area) are Oahu, Maui, Hawaii (known as Big Island), Kauai, Molokai, Lanai, Kahoolawe (uninhabited) and Niihau (privately owned). Each of the major islands has an unique identity of its own.

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This is not meant to be an exhaustive list, but one in which we list those guidebooks, etc., which cover travel to Hawaii in general and also have the highest reader satisfaction rating. We trust you will find the following as helpful and informative in planning your trip to Hawaii as others have in the past.

HAWAII—THE ALOHA STATE: These Hawaii travel guides cover, in whole or in part, the Hawaiian Islands. So, if you plan to visit two or more islands, these may be the guidebooks, magazines or maps for you.