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Garden of the Gods Review
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Garden of the Gods 
- Address: From Stables at Koele, follow dirt road through pasture, turn right at crossroad marked by carved boulder, head through abandoned fields and ironwood forest to open red-dirt area marked by a carved boulder, Lanai City, HI | Map It
- Category: Geological Sites
- Location: Lanai City and Upcountry
Fodor's Review:
This preternatural plateau is scattered with boulders of different sizes, shapes, and colors, the products of a million years of wind erosion. Time your visit for sunset, when the rocks begin to glow -- from rich red to purple -- and the fiery globe sinks to the horizon. Magnificent views of the Pacific Ocean, Molokai, and, on clear days, Oahu provide the perfect backdrop for photographs.
The ancient Hawaiians shunned Lanai for hundreds of years, believing the island was the inviolable home of spirits. Standing beside the oxide-red rock spires of this strange, raw landscape, you might be tempted to believe the same. This lunar savannah still has a decidedly eerie edge; but the shadows disappearing on the horizon are those of Mouflon sheep and axis deer, not the fearsome spirits of lore. According to tradition, the spirits were vanquished by Kaululaau, a chief's son from Maui who was exiled here for destroying his father's prized breadfruit groves. The clever boy outwitted and exhausted the spirits, and announced their banishment with a giant bonfire.
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