“I’m watching some fireworks that make the 4th of July look like a guy lighting a match,” said one eyewitness of the crater’s last eruption.
Kilauea Iki, at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, shows the hardened lava lake below. Hikers can take the 3.3-mile loop trail across the crater floor.The crater floor peeks at me through rainforest foliage as I walk the rim around Kilauea Iki — a 400-foot-deep crater created by Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii’s most active volcano.
The trail leads me gradually down to Kilauea Iki’s crater floor. It’s a lovely, well-maintained walk, but I’m anxious for the main attraction — and the occasional views interspersed through the trees are a big tease.Kamaehuakanaloa But on the other side of Kilauea’s caldera, separated only by a tree-covered ridge, is Kilauea Iki — translated to “Little Kilauea” in English. While this crater is smaller than the neighboring Halemaumau, it is still largex, at about a mile wide.at Kilauea Iki was in 1959, when a spectacular line of lava fountains shot into the air 50 to 100 feet high and sent lava down its crater walls to the bottom, where it pooled.
After about a month, the eruption stopped and formed this hardened lava lake that, today, people can hike across.There’s a break in the trees as I turn to make my final descent to the crater floor. Once there, I stop. A couple hikers pass me to continue their journey across the lava lake, as if this was as usual as walking around the city park, but I can’t move.
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