Tonys Tropical Tours on Maui

01/01/2025

Happy 2025 from Maui!

TONYS TROPICAL TOURS on MAUI www.tonysmaui.com provides historical tours of Maui by a professional historian.

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04/12/2024

Here are Bert and Karey, two lovely people who decided to take a tour. One of the nice things that the tour provides is the opportunity to ask lots of questions, and to spend more or less time at the various places we visit. It is customizable. Come and try it out! email [email protected] call 808-500-1349 or visit www.tonysmaui.com

Historian-led private driving and walking tours exploring the diverse culture and history of Maui.

18/11/2024

Had a fun time on the tour with Steve and Jennifer. Lots of good conversations

Book your tour with Tonys Tropical Tours www.tonysmaui.com . Call or text with questions or to choose a custom time! Tours are three hours long and can be adjusted to your schedule.

06/11/2024

Matt, Janet and I visited the Fourth Marine Division Memorial Park in Haiku, Maui.

The “Fighting Fourth” lived at Camp Maui during World War II. Located near Haiku on the slopes of Haleakalā, Camp Maui was a training and rest area for over 20,000 Marines and sailors from 1944 to 1945 as they prepared for and recovered from important operations on Roi Namur, Tinian, Saipan and most famously, Iwo Jima. In these four operations, the Division suffered a total of 17,722 battle casualties, with 3,298 killed or died of wounds and 14,424 wounded.

It's sobering to visit the park today, where families celebrate birthdays under its pavilions, rainbirds spray water, and children romp and squeal in delight in the play spaces. Eighty years earlier, on the same ground, Marines and Sailors lived there, anticipated combat operations, trained hard, wrote letters home, and did their best to prepare for an uncertain future.

18/10/2024

Here are Kyla, Jeff and Jack at our stop in the Iao Valley, just west of Wailuku, where Hawaiian Royalty and the elite of society were buried. The entrance to the Iao Valley is marked by a towering 1,200 foot-high pinnacle which is a small un-eroded portion of the volcano that is now the West Maui Mountains -- which with an average of 366 inches of rain is the ninth-wettest place on the planet! After rainfall, water in the Wailuku stream roars down the mountain.

The Iao Valley is a lush and botanically diverse region with beautiful hiking trails and some paved paths through a garden. As well as some significant military history which we talk about on our stop here.

Come, take a private historical tour and learn about the beautiful island of Maui and the people who lived here. You can go to ww.tonysmaui.com to reserve a spot, or just call or text Tony at (808) 500-1349 and set up a time!

01/10/2024

John and Teresa decided to take the plunge and hop into the Red Kia Soul for three hours. We spent a lovely afternoon together taking our time to see many historical sites and the natural beauty of Maui.

Returned to Kahului and dropped them off at the bow of their cruise ship, the operated by Lines at the end of their tour, well before their ship departed. All in all, a nice day 😄. Thanks for coming, John and Teresa!

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24/09/2024

Emma and John decided to book a tour and see lots of historical sites in central Maui! John and I are both Marines, and one of the places we visited was the 4th Marine Division Camp in Haiku. Today the camp is a very nice park with an incredible children's play exploration area, but back in 1945 it was home to about 18,000 Marines as they prepared for operations on Roi Namur, Tinian, Saipan and Iwo Jima.

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20/09/2024

Allow me to introduce you to Mary and Clara, two fun ladies who enjoyed a tour on Maui last week. After visiting the Iao Valley, we stopped at the Kepaniwai Heritage Gardens and snapped a pic in front of the lovely Portuguese pavilion.

This pavilion commemorates the approximately sixteen thousand Portuguese immigrants to Hawaii in the early 1900s.

Facing a shortage of available farmland and an uncertain future, many Portuguese opted to leave the Azores Islands in the Atlantic, bring their families to Hawaii and start a new life. They worked in the sugarcane fields as laborers, some eventually becoming managers. On Maui, many settled in the towns of Paia and Makawao, building businesses and contributing to the fabric of Maui. By the end of the 20th century, proof of their success was the two men of Portuguese ethnicity were elected mayor of Maui: Elmer Cravalho (1969 to 1979), and Hannibal Tavares, from 1979 to 1991.

Enhance your time on Maui with an historical tour and learn about Maui’s varied history at places like Kepanawai Heritage Park! Please visit www.tonysmaui.com to make your reservation for a private tour. Call or text 808-500-1349 with questions. You can make your reservation by phone / text as well.

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16/09/2024

Had a nice tour with Larry and Carol, who were passengers from the cruise ship. We met in Kahului.

Among the many things we saw was the Sun Yat-Sen statue at Kepaniwai Park in Maui. This park is nestled in the lush greenery of Iao Valley. During his revolutionary activity between 1879 and 1910, Sun would take repasts on Maui and stay with his brother, Sun Mei, in his home in Kula.

The statue of Sun Yat-Sen, the father of modern China, reminds us of his significant contributions and the historical ties between China and Maui.

This is just one of many topics and places we visit on a tour with Tonys Tropical Tours on Maui. ( www.tonysmaui.com ). If you or someone you know is traveling to Maui, consider spending three hours and get a good handle on the history of Maui while seeing the sites. Book at the website or call 808-500-1349 to book for custom dates and times.

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29/08/2024

Had a great three-hour historical tour with Anna and Marcos! Their cruise ship was in Kahului on Maui for the day, and they had some time, so they decided book a tour. Turns out they were the first walk-up customers for Tonys Tropical Tours on Maui! Great to have you Anna and Marcos!

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20/08/2024

The tour visits places throughout central Maui. Here are some of just some of them. Go to www.tonysmaui.com for more information and to book your tour!

20/08/2024

Tonys Tropical Tours on Maui LLC provides private historical tours of Maui to enrich your island-time by exploring the wide variety of people, cultures, and events which comprise Maui’s varied and fascinating history.