Day 5 - Diamond Head - After the conference was over we had much more time to explore the island.
Today we traveled to Diamond Head. A large crater - the explosion occurred about 300,000 years ago.
There is about a mile walk up to the highest peak of the crater rim. The walk starts off pretty easy. There are signs along the way warning people, "Do you know what you are in for?, Do you have the proper shoes and water." It really wasn't that bad....yet.
The pavement then turns to rock, rock turns to grated out steps as we wind further and further up the hill. Next we approach a staircase that acsends so steep you can hardly see the top, next we enter a tunnel and go up another long staircase, through a bunker hole and then viola we are at the top.
We were all of out of breath at the top. The views were amazing. To the left you had a full skyline view of Honolulu and the all around you were views of the mountains and the ocean. Beautiful!
After this we decided to check out another crater - Punchbowl which contains the National Cemetery of the Pacific. Very neat.
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