You can take the whole family on an outdoor tour when you take part in Kauai horseback riding. Additionally, when you include in the natural charm of the "Garden Isle" named Hawaii's Kauai, it equals a vacation event that's not only a grand adventure, but something to recall for several years in the future.
Actually, cattle, horses and cowboys go back a long ways into the history of Hawaii and Kauai. The paniolo, or Hawaiian cowboy, is derived from the vaquero, or Hispanic cowboy coming from California and Mexico. One feature of the Hawaiian language is that it doesn't include an "s" sound, so espanol becomes paniolo in Hawaiian. Captain George Vancouver provided Pai'ea Kamehameha, the leader of Hawaii, with cattle that by the early 1800s numbered so many that they were destroying the flora. An English sailor who ran away from his ship, was given permission by the Hawaiian leader to bring together the cattle and start the island's first cattle ranch in the early 1800s. In 1832, Mexican vaqueros were brought to the islands to instruct the local Polynesian people tips on how to take care of cattle. Today's paniolo has styles of clothing that resemble the Hispanic vaquero of a century ago in California and Mexico. The noho lio, or Hawaiian saddle, contains a distinguishing Spanish American appearance.