JOIN PAR NZ GOLFING HOLIDAYS FOR NINE RELAXING DAYS IN THE HAWAIIAN PARADISE OF KAUA‘I FOR A TEAM’S TOURNAMENT – THE 2018 HAWAII KAUA‘I GOLF CLASSIC. The fourth largest and most northern of the Hawaiian Islands, Kaua‘i is known as the ‘Garden Island’ for good reason. Its lush forests, rivers and waterfalls, and awesome coastal ranges are in stark contrast to
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the intense resort areas of Maui and Oahu further south. Though people have lived here for more than 1500 years, much of its rugged landscape is unspoilt. Picture perfect. At 40 kilometres long and up to 53 kilometres wide, this enchanting island has a lot to see in a relatively small area. That might be the key to why more than 60 feature films – from the 1958 romantic musical ‘South Pacific’ to box-office smashes like ‘Jurassic Park’, ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ and ‘Lilo and Stitch’, – have featured Kaua’i locations as stunning backdrops to their storylines. That’s not even counting the numerous television and commercial shoots. Kaua‘i also has the distinction of being the first Hawaiian island where Captain James Cook went ashore. Disembarking from the ‘Resolution’, Cook landed at Waimea Bay in 1778, setting in train events that led to the United States annexing Hawaii in www.parnz.co.nz
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