My two nieces Anusha and Aruna. The younger was was still cautious of us on the first day. :)

We got up at 3am to see the sunrise on the top of Maui's 10,023 foot high dormant volcano

Even though Maui is located in the tropics (same latitude as Mexico City) and themean temperature is in the 80's, the top of Haleakala is quite different. In fact the temperature drops approximately 3 degrees for every thousand (1,000) feet of elevation. Therefore, when it is 70 degrees at ocean level, it is 40 degrees (approx.) at the top of the mountain.

We were above the clouds on top of Haleakala.

The last sunrise in the US!!

It only took 5 minutes for the sun to rise!!

We saw part of a rainbow as we drove home from Haleakala.

That is Haleakala dormant volcano that we were just on a few hours ago.

Horseback ride in the pool!!

The sunset from our room in Maui

The hotel had 5 different pools in Maui and the UMD men's basketball team was staying at the hotel too for the Maui invitational tournament.

We hiked down to this area, At first we thought we could not get down and after some looking around, we found a ladder that someone had placed there which one could use. Definately risky, since there was no one around us in case something happened. But what a view!!