This is the first day of riding and it covered roughly the Northwest part of the island. (BTW, I arrived at noon the day before and ended up just relaxing in the hotel room and the beach. Alex told me the tour has deal with the Mauna Kea Beach folks for water activity but I wasn't able to find them. Too tired anyway. The first dinner was at the Coast Grille of the hotel. The seafood was decent but not special) The first part of the ride was the Northern half of the world-famous Big Island Ironman biking route, between Hapuna beach (we started from the Hapuna Prince hotel) and Hawi. We actually continue riding to Pololu valley lookout for a total 29 miles. Hiked down the valley all the way to the beach side. It was a challenging hike! Then we rode back to Hawi and took the van back to the hotel (Alex has just recovered from his back injury and he suggested me not to go all-out on the first day too.) Rested at the hotel for a bit and then headed to Mauna Kea beach to paddle an authentic Hawaiian outrigger canoe. Dinner was at the Mauna Kea hotel restaurant.Very high quality seafood.
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| The statue of the first king who unified the whole Hawaii at Hawi |
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| Pololu Valley |
Awesome! What bike did you ride again?
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