My Hawaii volcano tours have been some of those experiences in life that seem like they can only be lived, be felt, through the senses. Sometimes words can fail us. How do you describe a flower, a feeling, your love for a child, or a wonder in the world? By how it feels to your skin, appears to your eyes, smells in your memory, tastes on your tongue, and sounds to your soul. This is how I describe my times traveling the volcanic islands of Hawaii. Because by definition, any time spent in Hawaii, is time spent on a volcano.
Walking across pahoehoe lava is like walking across the hardened ripples of a pond. Smooth and undulating, with an underlying hardness, pahoehoe lava is created from the slow and steady eruption of lava. The meandering current of lava hardens and there is an almost velvety path left in its wake.
'A'a lava on the other hand, is all about sound and sharpness, and is the result of a turbulent lava eruption that has hardened in its jagged edges as its cooled across the landscape. Walking on this type of lava sounds like walking on giant eggshells, and there can be the feeling that at any moment you might break through the crust to the center of the earth itself.
The sights of a river of lava meeting an ocean of water are beyond description. Land falls into the sea, steam rushes up, and you smell the volcanic gases while the sulphur burrows into your scent memories forever. It is like seeing what the earth was like millions of years ago. The sounds of creation and destruction playing out in your ears like a symphony.
Touching the find strands of Pele's hair, that is created from the volcanoes as the wind stretches and forms the lava into filaments that flow across the volcanic landscapes until it latches onto whatever man-made or nature-made structure it can find. This is how these ancient volcanoes reach out and touch the modern world of Hawaii.
To taste Hawaii is to breathe the air. To smell Hawaii is to breathe the air. The scents of flowers, the textures of the rain forest, the heat of the Hawaii volcanoes, all form the very air you breathe in the Hawaiian Islands. The air is palpable and alive. The distant pulse of the islands and its volcanoes is echoed in the beats of your own heart.
Awe, wonder, adrenaline, and adventure are experiences of the senses. Seeing the glow and flow of active volcanic eruptions whether at night or during the day, by foot or by helicopter, is a sensory experience not to be missed in this lifetime.
Let your senses come alive on all your Hawaii volcano tours. See, smell, taste, hear, and feel by visiting http://www.hawaiitours.com/volcano.php.
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