Emphasizing budget travel and eco-tourism, Hidden Hawaii turns around the adage that "you get what you pay for". Spend hundreds of dollars per night at a hotel where everything is manufactured for your enjoyment, and your trip will feel artificial and contrived. For a lesser toll, you can experience one-of-a-kind Hawaii originals like Kokee Lodge Cabins, a mountain inn where you stay warm on those cold Kauai nights by firing up the wood-burning stove.

Award-winning author Ray Riegert describes all the traditional attractions and destinations, then leads beyond to little-known natural splendors, places you'd never have time to find on your own.

Hidden Hawaii shares the best buys and best bets for the full range of budgets. There are insider tips for solo travelers, families, and seniors, and detailed data on beaches, parks, and wilderness areas. Sightseers will enjoy wandering the Big Island's Kona coffee country, past tin-roofed country stores and miles of shimmering java plantations. Water enthusiasts will thrill at sharing the Ahihi-Kinau Reserve with two dozen types of brilliant coral and 100 species of equally dazzling fish.

One of the first guides of its kind, Hidden Hawaii helped launch a generation of travel books devoted to adventure tourism. The Honolulu Advertiser has called this book "a bible", and it has sold morethan 300,000 copies over the years. This tenth edition is fully updated and includes many