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beautiful, black sand, driving, Hawaii, Maui, national parks, nature, ocean, road to Hana, scenery, seven sacred pools, tours, travel, trees, United States, waterfalls
On the island of Maui in Hawai’i, the actual road to the town of Hana (pronounced Ha-nuh, –not HANN-ahh) is a wiggly one. And by wiggly, I mean there are a ton of switchbacks. And by a ton of switchbacks, I mean 617 of them. Really. They’re short twists and narrow and at times only one lane for both directions. It can get hairy driving over there on the east coast of Maui. This is what it shows on Google maps and it’s 100% true:
Cliff driving in the rain. Also awesome –when you don’t have to do the driving. Lots of single lane bridges too, painted trees, and some with waterfalls. Yay! Lots more notable places we passed too, all while speeding along!
That’s only part of the drive, the town is further along, and it’s teeny tiny. There’s no stopping in town for day trip, it’s about the journey, not the destination. We continued on through Hana and past the southern most part of the island and back around towards Kula. The lowest part of the road isn’t paved. It’s just rock, gravel and dirt. Super bumpy. Super fun!
Most of what I took photos of was from the van out the back window. The only shots that came out clear are when we stopped at the lookout points. Still, just goes to show what a wild ride it is!
Black sand beach. Awesome. Even more awesome on my feets!
Somewhere along the way, we stopped to see the freshwater Pools of Ohe’o Gulch aka Seven Sacred Pools. Which, I’m sure are quite sacred, but are muddy as hell. Still, a quick dip was, well, quick! In and out-done!
Overall, it was a really nice day of sight seeing, but too quick as per usual even though it was the whole day!