When I was staying in my Maui Vacation Rental the first place I wanted to visit was the summit of Halekala Volcano.
Haleakala dominates the east side of the island of Maui, and this is also the drier leeward side. Haleakala means “House of the shadow of the sun” (hale means “house,” aka means “shadow,” and la means “sun”), is it is an important location in ancient Hawaiian culture.
According to legend, Hina, who is the mother of the demigod Maui, did not have time to dry her kapa cloth, and so Hina asked her trickster son Maui to do something about the short days. Maui saw the sun appear at the top of Haleakala each morning before it raced across the sky, so he went there and waited for the sun to rise.
If you are visiting Oahu there are lots of great sights to check out along the north shore. The best way to really experience the north shore is to get an