![]() If you drive up, and see them coming up behind you, give them the road.īe sure to fill your tank, before you leave, there are no services of any kind out there. There are tour operators that run turbodiesel vans from Kailua Kona to the top, but they are spendy, don't stay very long at the top or visitor center, and frankly drive so fast up and down they would scare the bejesus out of me. (The others being kyaking and swimming with wild dolphins at Kaleakakua Bay and Volcanos NP.) They like this stuff even better than Maui and Honolulu: amazing. Everyone in the family including two teenaged daughters say that this is one of the top three Hawaii experiences for them. They have several telescopes trained on star formations and planets which you can see with a clarity that is unimaginable for flatlanders. The Visitor center is at 9,000 feet and the astronomy show they put on is extraordinary. If I ever go again, which I may because you can now tour the Suzuki telescope, I will ask my doc for some of the medicine that prevents Hypoxia. Be warned though, everyone in my family had a pretty good headache by the time we started down, and my older daughter had a few more symptoms of hypoxia. But, the sundown from 14,000 feet was worth the trip. Flat out in low gear, low range, four on board above 10,000 feet she was doing a smoking 15 MPH. The road is steep (17% grade in spots) and gravel, but plenty wide and the Hertz Tahoe handled it just fine. We rented a 4X4 and drove ourselves up, the drive is no big deal, unless I suppose there were to be snow on the road. ![]() Ouch! On BI we'll stay in the Kona area with two nights in Volcano. We're planning to spend seven days on Big Island then six days on Oahu. We're really excited about our trip - this July. I haven't seen anything at all on Fodors about the VIS programmes, so I'm beginning to wonder if maybe I'm looking at a really old webpage, and these tours no longer exist or something. I'm a bit wary of driving our 4WD back down the mountain afterwards in the dark, but I guess this must happen all the time, or they wouldn't hold the events in the first place, right.? I'd be really grateful for any comments. Afterwards we'd plan to stay on for the stargazing programme. Has anyone done the Mauna Kea summit tour and stargazing programme arranged through the Onizuka Center visitor information station? If so, can you share your experiences? I like the look of this more than the Mauna Kea Summit Adventures tour, not least of all because on the summit tour you get an inside tour of two summit telescopes.
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