Road to Hana

You can't go to Maui without seeing at least part of the road to Hana. Yes it is winding, yes it is scary to drive over busy one way bridges, but you truly don't feel like you are in Hawaii until you have been there. Take your time and stop along the way. You wont miss the beauty that way, and you wont get as carsick! Around every turn there is another waterfall.  On a rainy day water gushes from even the sides of the mountain. It is everything that doesn't exist here in the Arizona desert. It was raining, but does it really matter... it's Hawaii you are damp anyway. You can take hikes and swim in ponds under waterfalls. You can drive to black sand or hike to red sand beaches.  You can see violent crashing waves along a rugged lava shore, or snack on homemade banana bread. Just plan to be there all day long.

So here is the tour of some of the places we went this trip:




Me on the short hike to Haipua'ena falls. Random flowers just sprouting out of the side of the path.













Haipua'ena falls:













 Me at Lower Puohokamoa Falls. This one is a bit more of a hike, not too bad. The path can be more slippery if it is raining.

Dee at the lower falls. Very pretty but hard to find from the road.














At Ke'anae Peninsula. We ate lunch here (food that we brought) and watched the waves against the shoreline.

Here you can get banana and mango bread. We saw some locals looking like they were prepping for a boating(canoeing?) trip. I was scared they were going to launch from this point, but I don't see how that could be possible. Such jagged rocks!

Upper Waikani falls. It was raining a lot so the picture is particularly misty. That and the falls were really going.  This is also called the three bears falls, but you cant really see the separation here.

Hanawi falls. This is just 1/2 of the falls, there is another side that you cant get in just one picture easily and still do it justice. 











We took the long one lane road to Nahiku. Here it is so green and has a lot of vines and at some points well manicured vegetation.  Here's Dee prepping for his swing. All my pictures in-swing were fuzzy. I didn't look as cute trying to swing. 

If you take Nahiku road all the way to the bottom there is a parking area. Facing the ocean to the right is a guard rail. If you walk the ocean side of that rail you can find this hidden waterfall. Careful of the shear drop-off.

An amazing thing about this place is that just stepping out of the car it smelled sweet. Fruity even. I did not see any fruit but it was like being surrounded by fresh cut pineapples. Who knows if it is like that all year round.



This time we did not go all the way to Hana. You can get beauty overload on the way. Maybe if we go back we will stay a night in Hana so we don't have to go up and back all in one day. Makes for a long trip. So much beauty all in one 30 mile stretch of road!