Itinerary:
- Lunch at Thai Mee Up
- Check in at Hyatt Regency Maui Hotel
- Haleakala National Park Sunset Tour
We took the early flight and arrived in Maui before 10am.
After picking up our rental car, we drove to Thai Mee Up for some lunch. It has good reviews in Yelp and is located about 5 minutes away from our rental car location.
It's basically a food truck in a parking lot where there are a few other food trucks. We ordered the Lemongrass Fried Chicken, Grilled Chicken Satay and Pad Thai. The food was pretty good.
After that, I went to one of the other food trucks, Mo Ono Hawaii and ordered their Acai bowl as I saw many people queuing up. It was delicious especially on a hot day.
After lunch, we started heading to our hotel as we have a sunset tour planned for this afternoon. We arrived at the hotel about 45 minutes later and we were given leis for the girls and seashell necklace for the boys.
After checking in to our hotel, we went to our room to put our luggage and freshen up before heading down to check out the hotel pools. The hotel also gave us a box of chocolates, water bottles and beach tote.
The hotel is very well kept and is right on the beach.
There are also penguins, parrots, koi fishes and swans on site which the kids loved watching.
Soon after, it was time to head to the trolley station right outside the hotel for our bus tour. Once the bus arrived, the driver gave us a menu to select our dinner for tonight and also the map of the Haleakala National Park. We picked the Mahi Mahi while the kids picked the chicken dish.
The bus driver was a local and gave us a history of the island. Our first stop was in Waimea to pick up other hotel guests. Next we headed to Kula Marketplace for a bathroom stop and snack time since dinner will be served pretty late around 9pm.
After staying here for about 45 minutes or so, we continued on our journey to the volcano. The driver made an unplanned stop as it was a nice day and we could see the ocean.
Since the weather changes frequently and the winds get stronger in the afternoon blowing the clouds to higher elevation, he wasn't 100% sure if we could have a good sunset view today. But as we get to higher elevation, he was having a good feeling and told us that we should be able to get a good view.
We stopped by the visitor's center, however it was already closed, so we just took some pictures. The driver told us that we should always stay on the trails and not step on the silversword plants that lived on the volcano.
We then continued on to the summit.
We waited for the sun to set and it was one of the most beautiful sunset that I have seen in a while.
Once the sun set, we made our way down and it was a long 1 hour drive to our cafe. The road was windy and I started to get motion sickness.
We reached our cafe close to 9pm and were served dinner immediately. I wasn't feeling well at this time, so I only took a few bites. Anthony said that the food was delicious.
After dinner, we were split into small groups based on our hotel location and took the smaller bus back to our hotel as it has been a long day for our original bus driver. After we reached our room, we took a quick shower before heading to bed. It's been a long day for all of us.
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