Tour of the Big Island: Stage 5

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This 2-part route covered roughly the South east part of the island. The 1st-part was the long Cat-1 Mauna Loa climb (yes, it's the same name as the famous macadamia nut brand) and the 2nd part descend from the volcano down the Chain of Crater Road, took a detour to a lookout point and then climb out of it (a Cat-2) and finally a super-long and winding descend (but not too steep) to the South east coast, which was full of lava rocks. We took the van back up to the Volcano and stayed at the Volcano house for the night. Had a good steak at the restaurant there, which had a view to the fire. In fact, you could see the volcano from each room. What an awesome hotel!

6 mile into the Mauna Loa Cat-1 climb

Me and the tour provided Giants Defy bike at the South East coast