It is no coincidence that Maui has been voted "Best Island in the World" for well over a decade by readers of Conde Nast Traveler magazine.  Measuring 728 square miles, Maui is named after the demigod in Hawaiian legends… who used his fishhook to physically pull this chain of islands out of the sea.  The lava flow from two volcanoes, Eke Crater and Haleakala Crater, formed the connecting land that gives Maui the nickname of The Valley Isle.