Pictures from our visit to Waipio Valley in the southeast corner of North Kohola.  The road to the bottom of the valley is one lane gravel, four wheel drive required (no all wheel drives allowed), rides along the cliff edge and is very steep, about a 25% grade. (That’s 25 feet down for every 100 feet forward!!)  After the drive on Maui, we stayed up at the overlook.  There are about 50 native Hawaiian residents in the valley full-time. In 1946, a devastating Tsunami wiped out most of the valley….

See more about “The Valley of Kings” here:
http://gohawaii.about.com/cs/bigislandland/a/waipio_valley.htm

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