Travel Guide- Road to Hana
ROAD TO HANA ________________________________________________________________
Today we're heading to Hana by way of the famous Hana Highway.
The Hāna Highway is a 68-mile long stretch of highway which connects Kahului with the town of Hāna in east Maui. Although Hāna is only about 52 miles from Kahului, it took us over 4 hours to drive as the highway is very winding and narrow and passes over 59 bridges, 46 of which are only one lane wide.
There are approximately 620 curves along Route 360 from just east of Kahului to Hāna, virtually all of it through lush, tropical rainforest. Many of the concrete and steel bridges date back to 1910 and all but one are still in use.
Jon decided he needed to stop and buy some of that Spam sushi the couple from the Polynesian Cultural Center told us about on our way out of town.
There are places all along the highway to stop and see. Lots of paths to waterfalls or hidden bays. We stopped at one stop and took this trail to go see the sight mentioned in our guide book. I was convinced the plants growing along the side of the trail were sugar cane but after trying like 5 different stalks, I finally had to admit that Jon was right and that I had been eating weeds! He thought I was crazy.
The road is crazy with all the one-laned bridges and sharp turns where you can't even see oncoming traffic.
But it was nothing like the drivers who would come barreling through the yield signs before checking to see if someone was already on the bridge. It didn't seem to worry Jon as much as me though.
Jon loved this road and got quite used to all the craziness after a while
I started getting car sick from all the twists and turns, so Jon switched me so I could drive.
You could take all day to stop at every stop and see the sights.
We just chose a few but every single one was so pretty. Maui is definitely more beautiful than Oahu and once you get to the east side it gets truly wild.
We drove through Hana and out again before we even realized we'd made it. We turned around and got some food at a road side stand before heading out past Hana to get to our B&B about 20 min away.
We checked in and then left to go eat our dinner at a cliff we saw earlier, but it was so windy it was blowing the lettuce leaves out of the salad containers. We decided to wait on dinner and just enjoy the view.
But it was nothing like the drivers who would come barreling through the yield signs before checking to see if someone was already on the bridge. It didn't seem to worry Jon as much as me though.
Jon loved this road and got quite used to all the craziness after a while
I started getting car sick from all the twists and turns, so Jon switched me so I could drive.
Much better.
You could take all day to stop at every stop and see the sights.
We just chose a few but every single one was so pretty. Maui is definitely more beautiful than Oahu and once you get to the east side it gets truly wild.
We drove through Hana and out again before we even realized we'd made it. We turned around and got some food at a road side stand before heading out past Hana to get to our B&B about 20 min away.
We checked in and then left to go eat our dinner at a cliff we saw earlier, but it was so windy it was blowing the lettuce leaves out of the salad containers. We decided to wait on dinner and just enjoy the view.
It was so fun being on the exposed side of the island. The weather is a lot crazier by the open ocean vs the channels between islands.
We stayed till the sun was almost down then headed back.
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