Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-01-19
Two Can Be Combined in Sim.
pie Journey and Both Com
passed Within One Week

"Kilauea is certainly attracting a
lot Of attention these days." said L. W.
de Nis-Norton to a Star-Bulletin rep
resentative. and the patronage of the
personally conducted trips is almost
fast filling up for next Saturdays
trip and it looks as though last weeks
record would be broken.
But | want to say right here that
visitors are making a grave mistake
IL they neglect the magnificent trip
to Haleakala, which is one Of the
wonder sights of the world and is al
most as easily reached as its active
sister Kilauea. Very few people seem
to realize that it can be combined with
the Kilauea trip at small extra ex-
pense, and it is not even necessary
to return to Honolulu in order to
make the Journey.
Trip Is Easily Made
by booking b. Kilauea OH the We'd
nesday or Saturday boat, and leaving
Hilo on the return journey on the
following Friday or Monday. passen-
gers have a stopover privilege which
enables them to land at Lahaina on
Maui, motor across to Wailuku, where
the night is spent in first-class hotels
and the auto run up to Idlewilde made
next morning. Hero horses are in
readiness and a guide is in attendance
for the ride to the summit, which is
reached during the afternoon. The
night is spent in the comfortable rest
house erected by the enterprising
Maui folk, and the delight of an even
ing spent around the fire at an alti-
tude very near the portals Of heav-
en-, while stories are told and pipes are
smoked, which altogether is an ex-
perience not soon to be forgotten.
Everything is provided for-the- COM
fort of guests and the hours of sleep
are so refreshing that one leaves ones
couch reluctantly in the grayness of
the dawn. :
Sunrise Scene Marvellous
But all hesitation quickly vanish
es in the growing light as the vast !
prospect is gradually unfolded. The
view is terrific IN its ipmensity. 1t !
is as though one stood At the botfom |
of vast basin whose sides are bnilt !
up of shadowy sea and soft cloud, |,
the islaIds. of the group are
moored as with titanic anchors. First |
the great snowpeaks Of Mauna Loa
and Mauna Kea loom up out OF the |
lower darkness against the |
pale sky-and gradually, as the light
steals downward, the coastline of the
great island comes into views Molo-
kai and the mountains OF Oahu next |
claim the attention, and then the vast
sweep of the fertile sugar lands of
central Maui, seagirt on two sides,
flash into prominence.
Vast Crater Fairly Appals -.
Pr 9sently the sun sweeps grandly
up out OF the eastern ocean, and one
gasps as one turns to look into the
vast dead crater Upon whose rim me
is standing Few people could ever
describe that sight In cold words. The
eye gazes enthralled into its terrific
depths and the mind almost refuses
to grasp the fact that the inner cones,
which look like mere hillocks, rear
their gaping mouths seven hundred
feet above the slope on which they
lie. Even Jack London, the master
Of living, burning language, hesitated
until, inspired, he told of the amaz'
ing morning battle OF the clouds far
down within tina. awful pit. In its 81
Ien3e, its immensely, rs portrayal OF
the unimaginable. power OF the crea-
tor Of all things, HaleakRla is with
Jut a peer, and fain would one linger,