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The area known as Upcountry Maui begins just mauka of the North Shore towns of Sprecklesville, Paia, and Ku'au and runs all the way up the northwest face of Haleakala, to the summit. It includes distinct towns and villages like Makawao and Pukalani as well as communities vaguely defined by a single name, like Haiku which seems to stretch in many directions and has no single central town. And then there's Haliimaile. You could miss it if you sneeze. One encounters acres of sugar cane and a remnant of the once abundant pineapple fields. There are old plantation homes and jungle shacks, flower and vegetable farms and ever-increasing country estate developments. Roads twist and wind back on themselves as they snake through gulches and around cliffsides. Alternately pasture and forest and pasture again, no area of Maui has experienced as much change in the last ten to fifteen years as has Upcountry. Pineapple and sugar are yielding to the demand for housing; realtors and builders turn rural pastures and country gulches into suburban developments, and once sleepy villages are now bustling country-style towns. Agreed, some effort is made to preserve the atmosphere of a bygone era, and new buildings are built in the style of old buildings. But, new shops and cafés and galleries have gradually replaced many of the old Mom & Pop shops and eateries of only a few years ago. Traditional saimin and poke have been upstaged by trendy fish burgers and fish tacos, and where local cuisine hasn't gone south of the border, it has gone upscale. Of course, that's progress. Our solution at "Maui Points Of View" is to show you that part of Maui that doesn't change. The roads are busier today, and the great procession of traffic winds its way along the coasts and up the slope of the great mountain. And the reason they do, is because it's beautiful.
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