Pixture of the Week 2015.4

This is what you see every morning ..... if you are standing at the top of Haleakala.

A volcano on Maui ....as the sun comes up.

In the old days, the Kahanas ..... would climb the volcano every morning.

 To offer prayers to the their gods .... at this powerful time of the day.

Nowadays it's the tourists, including us that come .... and we make the trip by bus.

That trip, a climb of 10,000 ft, over 36 miles .... took us 90 minutes by bus. 

Those Kahanas did it on foot .... they were very dedicated guys.

The Kahanas had to walk down too .... we did it on a bicycle.