The Big Island of Hawaii - A Photo Tour
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The first thing we did on the Big Island is take an air tour of the
current volcanic activity.
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The next thing you do is take the roadtrip into the live volcano.
This is a special drive (where else can you drive into a live volcano?)
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The black rock, the sulphur fumes and the erie landscape - all display
themselves here. This is Mt Kilauea volcano
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Then this experience of walking through a volcanic tube.
This was the Thurston volcanic tube.
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Ajay prepares for a photograph, but Deepa has already taken it.
The artist in Deepa comes alive!
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Finally the picture for which we had hiked for an hour on rough volcanic terrain.
This is about the closest you can get to flowing lava if you are not a geologist.
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Spot the person in this picture. The volcanic soil
is so fertile that forests can grow on it easily.
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After the volcanoes it is the famous black sand beach at Punaluu state park
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Ajay at black sand beach.
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And now, Deepa modelling at black sand beach
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We further drove up to the Kona coast.
This place is famous for Kona coffee. Here you see the coffee fruits.
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Now, its the sunset time at the Kona coast.
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The grandest sunset of all
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We now proceed to the resort, where we were staying
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The lobby spelled luxury everywhere
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One of the views from our room in the resort
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The other view from our room
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We could walk down to this enchanting beach.
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Guess who it is again :-)
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More modelling Hawaiian style I
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More modelling Hawaiian style II :-)
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After Kona, we headed back to the eastern side of
the Big Island. This is the famous Waipio valley.
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Who would expect Hawaii to be full of ranch lands and cowboys.
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Smile, your picture is being taken :)
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We next headed out to the Akaka falls state park.
The rivulet flowing through this park makes beautiful landskapes.
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The Akaka falls itself towers over 400 feet.
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Bamboo groves, moss covered leaves and heavy rain. Thats tropics for you.
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We next headed out to the botanical gardens, north of the town of Hilo.
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Its a (palm) jungle out there.
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Hawaii is also famous for Orchids. Orchid I
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Deepa poses in front of the falls in the garden
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We leave the Big Island with this picture of the milky waterfalls.
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In all we felt that the Big Island was like taking Tilari and Terekoal and multiplying them a hundred folds. Unfortunately, only the people who visited these places will know what we mean.
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