Kipahulu - Palapala Ho'omau Church and Lindbergh's Grave

On the western edge of Kipahulu lies Palapala Hoomau Church, built in 1857. In the graveyard the famous Atlantic pilot Charles Lindbergh lies buried. In the "Spirit of St Louis" in 1927 he was the first to fly across the Atlantic. Lindbergh passed the last years of his life on Maui and died in 1974, having expressed the wish to be buried in the inaccessible solitude of this country churchyard. Nevertheless, the number of tourists visiting his grave grows year by year.