Hawaii’ss Big Island is home to a national park, unlike any other US state. The southwestern part of the town, Hilo is a landscape of crusty cinders, deep craters, heaps of pumice, blackened lava with fields up to three miles, & dots of vegetation.

Hawaii Volcanoes National Park

Housing two of the world’s most active volcanoes Kilauea and Mount Loa, it encompasses both lava ice, with Kilauea pouring molten rivers of lava into the sea & Mt. Loa containing ice on its summit. The Park is an International Biosphere Reserve & World Heritage site. In fact, it is one of the few places on the earth where volcanic eruptions can be seen up & close. One can fluorescent yellow rocks smelling of rotten eggs & releasing sulphuric gases: marking the sulphur banks. The Thurston lava tube is a natural tunnel. Kilauea’s southern slope gives a breathtaking view of lava fields, craters & the coastline far below.