This must be one of world's most amazing views.
The view of the crater will take you breath away. Streaks of red,
yellow, gray and black trace the courses of recent and ancient lava,
ash, and cinder flows. I imagine this is how Mars looks like. I
took about 100 pictures of the crater, I just couldn't stop.
Haleakala's summit elevation is 10,023 feet (3055 meters), but
it's believed that once it was much higher than this. Hawaiian
volcanoes gradually sink into the ocean because their weight slowly
bends down the Earth's crust beneath them.
