Wow. Talk about a tropical paradise! Well, it's great but of course America has capitolized as much as possible on it. Look at this beautiful beach! Not only is it a beautiful beach but we will build about a hundred resorts to exploit it as much as possible!
No, but really, it was a fun trip. Steve and I landed in the northern central part of Maui and drove in our Jeep Wrangler towards Hana. We saw some beautiful coastline, ate lunch (ahi tuna sandwich is to die for) at Paia fish market which is a local favorite that is being tripped upon by tourists like us. The coast is awesome. We found out that the water wasn't that warm in April, but very swimable. We continued to drive through cane and taro feilds, catching patches of rain here and there, sun most of the time.
In Hana we stayed at the Hana Kai which has suites right on the ocean. It was like our own private beach for the hotel. The beach was black and pebbly. We found out that there were only 3 restaurants in the whole palce, two of which were closed due to the town meeting Monday night. We gave in and ate at the resort restaurant which was outrageously priced and mediocre. We bought our groceries at the general store the next day and cooked ourselves. Hana has some amazing beaches. There si a black sand beach, a red sand beach due to the clay rish mountains that frame it, a great pool called Blue Pool which we had to trespass in order to get to but swam under a water fall in a very blue and cold pool. It was amazing. Right on the shore of the ocean. We went to some caves that were lava tubes from about 190 years ago. They were amazing. When we got to the caves, the guy who lived by them said we could go free if we could help him burn a CD of a book he wrote. Umm, awesome! Steve strikes again.
After a couple days of solitude, we drove the south road out of Hana, which we found out we were not supposed to do with a rental care, but it was not bad at all. A couple spaots were unpaved but a high car like ours cleared all pot holes. The views that way were amazing. We were high on the cliff of lush vegitation, looking over an ocean of absolute blue and mostly untouched land. Then as we drove, the landscape turned into bare lava fields with only desert plants growing out of them. Often, volcanoe landscape reminds one of being on Mars and that is what it was like. The top down, the sun beating on our skin. It was hot.
We began to drive North through the middle of Maui which is called the upcountry. We stopped off and had Pinapple wine which was horrible. California has made me partial to grape wines I guess. Futher up the road we stopped off in Gramdmo's Cafe and had a supern sandwich. We may have been hungry but I think it was sincerely good. This area was still underpopulated.
That was a great place to be for our first three days on our honeymoon.
Posted by andria at April 13, 2005 08:25 AM