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KAUAI Kauai is rightly known as the Backyard Isle. It’s dwelling to Mount Waialeale, sometimes called the “wettest place on earth” and the genesis of the island’s seven rivers. This community of rivers feed Kauai’s extremely inexperienced panorama and numerous waterfalls between the mountain ridges. In Hanalei Bay, one of many wettest and most lush elements of the island the place rain showers are the order of the day, Kauai’s rugged magnificence is on full show.

That is precisely what Kauai’s new bayfront lodge, 1 Resort Hanalei Bay, is making an attempt to seize.

The open-air lodge is designed to blur the traces between indoors and outside, making a seamless oasis (requiring much less lighting). Native and tropical crops greet friends as they arrive on the property and, as that is their pure setting, require much less water and upkeep to thrive.

The constructing itself is painted a smooth inexperienced from a beforehand shiny white to scale back mild air pollution and mix in with the panorama to keep away from distracting birds. Inexperienced roofs characteristic drought-tolerant native crops equivalent to pili grass to scale back the necessity for air con. Even the health middle makes use of recycled rubber flooring.