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We stayed at the Westin Ka’anapali Ocean Resort Villas– located in the most famous part of Maui, pretty touristy. Loved the hotel. We wanted a mix of relaxation and exploring so we decided to alternate days: one day just hanging around the area at the beach/pool, next day explore. Here are some of the things we did on our exploring days.

-Sunrise on Mount Haleakala. Pick you up at 230 am, drive to crater to see what’s called the last sunrise on earth. It used to be volcano, now a crater. You’re above the clouds for the sunrise, awesome. Throws off the rest of your day, but worth it. Could ride bikes down, didn’t opt for that. They have a couple different national parks on the crater, things you can only see there, nowhere else in the world. Strange day but coolest thing we’ve ever done in any of our travels.

-Helicopter tour to top of the road to Hana. Hana is a really small community in the middle of the rainforest and there’s only one way to get there. The helicopter tour was awesome, they take you through the places they shot Jurassic Park and you get to see parts of rainforest that you can’t get to any other way. If you rent a car you can do it in a day. One neat thing on the route is the place where banana bread was invented, and there are lots of stands with fresh fruit along the way. Tons of views to waterfalls and the ocean. We took a bus tour back down, stops along the way to just get out and hike to waterfalls/hidden pools. We would recommend this because we got to see a lot of places that you wouldn’t know to find them on your own. We booked our honeymoon through a travel agent and the tour company that took us up was Blue Hawaiian.

-Lahaina – this is an old whaling port and is touristy with lots of restaurants and shops but the hotels are smaller, locally owned so you get more of an authentic feel. You can go to traditional luaus, truly Hawaiian. We ended up spending half of our time here, and when we go back we will stay in Lahaina.

-Dinner boat tour – While walking around one day there was an offer extended our way for a dinner boat tour, $20 each for drinks, dinner, and a 3 hour boat tour around the island. Why not? It was great, nice views of sunset.

-Snorkeling at Black Rock – one of the best places to snorkel in the world. Just rented equipment from one of the beachside vendors, there are plenty.

Neat thing to try: in fall they do pineapple beers instead of pumpkin beers like we have at home. Really good.
Year traveled: 2012

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