We took the drive up Haleakala to the top of the crater, and even though it is cold and windy up there, the view was amazing. Now we chose to go later in the day and decided to stay and watch the sunset, but this is a very popular early morning activity. There are numerous companies that offer bike rides down Haleakala. I think all of the tours take you up the crater in the wee hours of the morning to watch the sunrise from the top, which is at an elevation of 10 023 feet. From there if the cloud cover is not too thick you can see the whole island. Unfortunately by the time we went up the cloud cover was thick and you could not see below, but the view was still pretty spectacular if you ask me.
Taken from the Haleakala National Park Headquarters where we had to make a quick stop for our national park stamp.
Continuing our drive up into the clouds.
Just above the clouds now.
At the top now.
The view of the crater itself.
A few more of the amazing cloud cover. It really is neat to see it from above rather than below.
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