Published on Jan, 2025
I believe we actually were there much earlier than 7. We caught the bus at 5am and waited until they opened the gates to diamond head at 6 AM. It was still dark and the sun didn’t come up till a little after 7 AM. It was a little rough. I should’ve brought my headlamp with me, but I think that’s one of the darkest days of the year. We had so much fun photographing up at the top that we lost track of time and realized our bus was leaving at 7:30. We had to run down very uneven steps with lots of people everywhere coming up and down as we were excusing ourselves as we ran past people - we thought we’d definitely miss the bus, but as we came running up, the bus was still there. Now that was a very kind driver to wait for us. I think we were 10 minutes late. So if you’re thinking of taking this, remember, you can’t take photos for too long because you have to get back to the bus.! we were back at our hotel by 8 AM.
