We decided to take a day long tour that started at 7:15am and ended at 6:15 p.m. Fortunately we had a very knowledgable tour guide named Tom. He provided us with extensive historical information on how the Polynesians came to travel some 2000 miles in outrigger canoes arriving on Hawaiian Islands around 500 A.D. Tom also had a lot information to share about the flora and fauna of Maui, from Banyan trees, Eucalytptus, bamboo and Acacia trees. We covered about 200 miles during the 8 hours of actual driving. We had numerous photo ops of 3 to 20 minutes. The natural landscape transformed itself several times during the course of the day.
The actual drive to Hana consists of 600 curves and 54 one way bridges that have to be negotiated . Most turns were taken at between 10 and 15 mph. One section of 30 miles was incredibly bumpy, almost bone jarring. Certainly it was an experience that will form a permanent memory hi-light. Both of us were exhausted by the time we reached Kihei again.
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