Attractions

Kauai Coffee Company

Kauai Coffee Company Kauai Coffee invites you to stop by their estate to learn more about how coffee is grown, harvested, processed, and graded. You can take a self-guided walking tour, visit their museum, or shop at their retail outlet where you can purchase a variety of coffees, gift baskets, logo items, and Kauai products. They also offer free coffee samples and a snack bar. The Visitor Center is open seven days a week from 9 am to 5 pm.

National Tropical Botanical Garden

National Tropical Botanical Garden National Tropical Botanical Garden is a nonprofit institution dedicated to saving, studying, and sharing the flora of tropical regions - in its five gardens and five preserves, on other private lands, and in the wild. Emphasis is on species threatened with extinction.  Two gardens are on the south shore -  McBryde Garden and Allerton Garden. Both offer public tours from the Visitors Center in Poipu. McBryde holds the world's largest collection of native Hawaiian species.

Spouting Horn

Spouting Horn

This natural wonder occurs when water rushes under a lava shelf and bursts through a small opening at the surface. Every wave produces another spray. Spouting Horn frequently spurts salt water 50 feet into the air. The phenomina is especially exciting at sunset when the spray becomes incandescent with the colors of the rainbow. This particular blowhole is different from others found throughout the state as another hole nearby only blows air, making a loud groaning sound. Legend states that this coast was guarded by a large mo'o (lizard) who ate everyone who tried to fish or swim here. One day, a man named Liko entered the water. When the mo'o went to attack him, he swam under the lava shelf and escaped through the hole. The mo'o became stuck and was never able to get out. The groaning is the cry of hunger and pain from the lizard still trapped under the rocks. There used to be a much larger blowhole called Kukuiula Seaplume adjacent to Spouting Horn. It shot water 200-feet into the air. However, as the salt spray damaged a nearby field of sugar cane, the hole was blasted away in the 1920's. Do not venture out on the lava shelf and get close to the blowhole - fatalities and injuries have resulted from such acts.