VolcanoDiscovery Hawai’i

An absolutely unforgettable tour. If you can only have one “holiday of a lifetime” make sure this is it!

Live volcanoes, hot lava, rainforests, spectacular sunsets, sandy beaches and clear blue ocean. This tour has the lot along with great food, good company and an outstanding tour leader in Philip.

A couple of hours after landing on Big Island we were already hiking across the lunar landscape caldera of Kilauea and to the volcanic crater of Halema’uma’u - the home of the Hawaiian fire goddess Pele. The next few days were spent in and around the Volcano Park, walking across a recent lava field to view live hillside lava flows from the same volcano up close and personal!

Getting to watch the same lava flow straight into the ocean with a spectacular ocean-side view. And hiking underground into a vast lava tube to see how the volcanic lava moved around and created the landscape. In our ignorance, we just thought lava was lava! Philip’s extensive knowledge helped bring the landscape to life and understand the creation of Hawai’i Island.

But it wasn’t just volcanoes. We got hikes through tropical rainforests, including one through Waipio Valley to see a huge and magnificent waterfall down the valley side. We got to the top of Mauna Kea to enjoy a superb sunset over the Pacific and some unbelievable stargazing .

Philip even managed to find us time to visit the spectacular Botanical Gardens knowing our interest in flowers. And in between all that we managed snorkelling, a trip in an authentic Hawaiian canoe, watching dolphins and green sea turtles, swimming from yellow, green and black sand beaches.

And we never felt like regular tourists, just people enjoying some of what the Hawai’i Island can offer.

Mahalo!

Mik and Hazel Wisniewski
Scotland
10-day custom tour of Kilauea