Luxury Villa Rental in Hawaii (Kauai, Oahu and Maui)
Your Dream Villa
For sure it is a beautifully designed home with
many impressive and unique attributes. It should embody the
inside/outside living style of the Caribbean with its own tropical
lush gardens filled with palm trees, hibiscus and wild orchids -- in
addition, a private water front dock, with steps to the sea, surrounded
by powder white beach sand. The villa has three to five master bedrooms
and one or two junior bedrooms, all with facilites en suite. There are
two spectacular swimming pools--one on grade made of stone, one elevated
and secluded. All master bedrooms have spectacular views of the Caribbean
Sea--as do the living areas, outside verandas and master kitchen. In
addition, the property has its own tennis court and stand alone car
garage, wherby the entire estate is built on minimum one acre of land,
all enclosed by beautiful stone walls.
This is a dream - isn't it? Villas
A villa was originally a Roman country house built for the upper
class. According to Pliny the Elder, there were two kinds of villas, the villa
urbana, which was a country seat that could easily be reached from Rome (or another
city) for a night or two, and the villa rustica, the farm-house estate, permanently
occupied by the servants who had charge generally of the estate, which would center
on the villa itself, perhaps only seasonally occupied. There were a concentration
of Imperial villas near the Bay of Naples, especially on the Isle of Capri, at
Monte Circeo on the coast and at Antium (Anzio). Wealthy Romans escaped the summer
heat in the hills round Rome, especially around Frascati (cf Hadrian's Villa).
Cicero is said to have possessed no fewer than seven villas, the oldest of which
was near Arpinum, which he inherited. Pliny the Younger had three or four, of which
the example near Laurentium is the best known from his descriptions.
Renaissance villas
In 14th and 15th century Italy, a 'villa' once more connoted a country house,
sometimes the family seat of power like Villa Caprarola, more often designed for
seasonal pleasure, usually located within easy distance of a city. The first
examples of Renaissance Villa dates back to the age of Lorenzo de' Medici, and
they are mostly located in the Italian region of Tuscany (the "Medici villas") such
as the Villa di Poggio a Caiano by Giuliano da Sangallo (begun in 1470) or the
Villa Medici in Fiesole (since 1450), probably the first villa created under the
instructions of Leon Battista Alberti, who theorized in his De re aedificatoria
the features of the new idea of villa. From Tuscany the idea of villa was spread
again through Italy and Europe.
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Hawaii
All of the Hawaiian Islands were formed by
volcanoes arising from the sea floor from a magma source
described in geological theory as a hotspot. The theory maintains
that as the tectonic plate beneath much of the Pacific Ocean
moves in a northwesterly direction, the hot spot remains stationary,
slowly creating new volcanoes. This explains why only volcanoes
on the southern half of the Big Island are presently active.
The last volcanic eruption outside the Big Island happened at
Haleakala [.] on Maui in the late 18th century (though
recent research suggests that Haleakala's most recent eruptive
activity could be hundreds of years older). The newest volcano to
form is Loihi Seamount [.], deep below the waters off the southern
coast of the Big Island.
The volcanic activity and subsequent erosion created impressive geological
features. The Big Island is notable as the world's fifth highest island.
If the height of the island is measured from its base, deep in the ocean,
to its snow-clad peak on Mauna Kea, it can be considered one of the
tallest mountains in the world.
Because of the islands' volcanic formation, native life before human
activity is said to have arrived by the "3 W's": wind, waves, and wings.
The isolation of the Hawaiian Islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean,
and the wide range of environments to be found on high islands located in
and near the tropics, has resulted in a vast array of endemic flora and fauna.
Hawaii has more endangered species per square mile than anywhere else.
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The climate of Hawaii is atypical for a tropical area, and is regarded as more
subtropical than the latitude would suggest, because of the moderating effect of
the surrounding ocean. Temperatures and humidity tend to be less extreme, with
summer high temperatures seldom reaching above the upper 80s (°F) and winter
temperatures (at low elevation) seldom dipping below the mid-60s. Snow, although
not usually associated with tropics, falls at high elevations on Mauna Kea and
Mauna Loa on the Big Island in some winter months. Snow only rarely falls on
Maui's Haleakala. Mount Waialeale [.], on the island of Kauai, is
notable for rainfall, having the second highest average annual rainfall on Earth:
about 460 inches (38 ft. 4 in., or 11.7 m).
Local climates vary considerably on each island, grossly divisible into
windward [.] and leeward (Kona) areas based upon location relative
to the higher mountains. Windward sides face the Northeast Trades and receive
much more rainfall; leeward sides are drier, with less rain and less cloud
cover. This fact is utilized by the tourist industry, which concentrates
resorts on sunny leeward coasts.
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Renting is an agreement where a payment is made for the temporary use of a good or
property owned by another person or company. The owner of the property may be referred to as the
lessor and the party paying to use the property as the lessee or renter. There is typically an implied,
explicit, or written rental agreement or contract involved to specify the terms of the rental.
Examples include:
- Renting real estate for the purpose of Housing tenure (where the lessee rents a residence to
live in), parking a vehicle(s), storage, business, agricultural, institutional, or government
use, or other reasons. When renting real estate, the person(s) or party who lives in or occupies
the real estate is often called a tenant, paying rent to the owner of the property, often called a
landlord. The real estate rented may be all or part of almost any real estate, such as an apartment,
house, building, business office(s) or suite, land, farm, or merely an inside or outside space to
park a vehicle, or store things. The rental agreement for real estate is often called a lease.
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