The Road to Hana

Much of the two-way 52-mile Hana Highway is barely 2 lanes wide and often only one; it clings to the sides of the cliffs along West Maui's north shore rain forest, with "blow horn" signs at hairpin curves, yield signs at one lane bridges and cars parked along almost nonexistent roadsides for spectacular views of coastline cliffs and bays and frequent waterfalls in the gorges. The rain forest is wet, in bloom and very fragrant. Maui has feral chickens!











































On the coast near Hana is the Kahanu Botanical Gardens which maintains the world's largest collection of breadfruit trees ('ulu) (David holds a breadfruit below r), has an ethnobotanical collection of the plants the Polynesians brought with them to Hawaii as early as 200 CE, and preserves the 16th c. Pi'ilanihale Heiau (below l), the largest ancient worship structure in all of Polynesia.