If you thought picking between the
different Hawaiian islands is hard. Here's your next task? Trying to choose between
all of the different things
there is to do just here on Maui, don't be fooled
by it's a small size. This Island has way more to do than
you're going to be able to squeeze in your seven day trip. So we're here to take you along with
us on some different experiences. That way you can decide for yourself
what you'd like to do here in Maui. It would be a lot, but in one day you could
enjoy 10,000 feet for sunrise, a top of volcano, and then head over
to lush, mountainous rainforests, then go out on the ocean
for whale-watching and
finally down to a dried out Sandy beach for sunset, and then stick around to the end of the
video to check out what not to do in Maui. It doesn't always happen, but sometimes we do have
negative experiences while
we travel and our channel wouldn't be the reality of travel,
unless we shared both sides of the coin. That is exactly what we're
doing here in this video today. So click the like button below, cause
y'all know YouTube. Didn't send me here. And also I got to mention the
road to HANA is probably the most quintessential can't miss
thing to do here in Maui, which is why we have an
entire video on just that. So subscribe for that next week or click
in a link below our video last week was all about the testing requirements
for Hawaii and Maui specifically. So you can find all of that in
the link below as well. Now, set your alarm and get to bed.
It's going to be an early morning. Hello and welcome to your gypsy
guide to, if you can hear this, then we're off to a great start and we're
going to have an excellent day cause trying to care our device to the car. So we can hear through the
high quality car speakers. Sometimes we'll drive in and out of clouds
as we move from the East or the West side of the slope and back again. Early morning in Maui for sunrise
at Holly Aquila national park, which is the top of the
volcano at 10,000 feet. We've been climbing since sea level. And the narrator on our tour
has mentioned that we should have probably gone through
a layer of clouds so far. And it has been absolutely
so clear. We've been, I've been watching, watching sunrises. We can see it from our condo every
single morning that we've been here, like a Hawk, the cloudy
mornings, I'm saying, Oh gosh, look at those people up there. They
can't see anything. And then, Oh wow. What an awesome sunrise and
people had a great experience. So my fingers had been crossed.
It's been clear that fast two days. And it was a clear sunset last night. So I have good feelings. I know, but I can. Okay. That's true. Okay. He made it to the summit
and this is going to be. Amazing. They said it was going to
be cold and they were right on the inside. It's as cold as that, it was really weird. Packing a jacket to go
to Hawaii. We also packed the hotel. Do they regret it at all? Don't regret it. It's amazing. [inaudible] this is the one. And
only time you'll be cold in Hawaii. I knew what the temp was right behind me is the big Island
of Hawaii and another volcano taking a short break and heritable
warm up and stopped working. It's really hard to use the camera set. Yeah, we have to warm up
our fingers just to film. We should have been here a
half hour earlier than we were. I thought to look up first light
time, as opposed to even just sunrise. And we got here a half hour
before the listed first light, but with the altitude factored
in or not factored in, we probably should have been here an hour
before first light time because there was light when we got up here a half
hour before the lift. So just a tip. If you're coming up,
sun rise was at six 30. We got here at six and you could
have even gotten here at five. If you wanted to see some stars or so lucky to get here
on a beautiful morning. Um, but you can come up here at
any time of day, including sunset, which we hear is quite nice. Through. Came from somebody who's happy. She warmed up in the car. All right, packing to come up here. If you're coming from a
cold you're cold home, you can just bring your winter
coat. We were coming from Florida. Tim brought this just for
the hike, this down coat, but I'm making do with, um, I wanted more room for cute
clothes and I'm making, I'm making do with just hiking clothes.
I have hiking boots and tall wool socks. I have leggings on
under jeans, a raincoat, a hoodie sweatshirt, a long
sleeve shirt, a t-shirt uh, in another I'm like a Cammy
soul, like a, like a tank top. So somewhere where everything that
you have and not moving around, it's really cold. And everybody around. Us up here was kind of like this. But even just little things in our
experience make a big difference. Like having a buff down here and
a buffer your ears and a hat. Like those are the little things that
are small and that you can pack easily to make it all easy. And then if you
need more space in your luggage, you can always use jet travel
here, compression cubes. I thought I had, I thought I had one right here in the
backpack to just whip out and show you, but I'm sure our editor rat
will pop one on the screen here. All right, this is going to be a beautiful ride down
the volcano because we came up in the dark and we haven't even seen it yet. I bet you can see. It's not exactly
a clip, but that looks so cool. Well, I hope you've enjoyed
visiting this spectacular place. It's a difficult place to explain to
people who haven't seen it for themselves. So one of the big questions is
whether Holly Arcola will ever erupt again. It's believed the
last lava flows from Holly. Arcola occurred in 1790, but new evidence is suggesting it may
have been 150 years earlier than that. Well, this is pretty cool. Having gypsy guides right here on our
phone to just kind of turn our brains off and not have to constantly be looking
down the phone or doing research and national parks frequently,
you don't even have service. So this is just playing through
the speakers and on the way down, it's different audio than on the way up. And it's letting us know that there's
this great viewpoint right here. That gives a different perspective
than what we saw at the summit. And nobody's here. So nobody
had the insider information. [Inaudible] more facts. Yeah. Oh, Whoa, wait. We didn't see any of this. Look at those things. Do you think they're called cinder cones? I was picturing a cinder cone to be
like some little kind of like rock structure, not a whole
volcano looking thing. That is cool. Oh my gosh. This looks like Mars. Wow, welcome. So our new series tripped Mars. I think because it's specifically
a volcano and we have the little tour guide going in the car. I feel very much like this is a
elementary school trip and you're out here learning about geology and Kane. We've never really, I've
never really been to volcano. It makes me want to see some magma. I really want to see some
hot to glow in magma. Yeah. All right. Next trip. [Inaudible] you can. Here. There's a few big trails. One of them is about a 2.5 in and out. And then another is an 11 mile hike
that goes all through the cinder cones. All right. Back down the. If you've been watching this morning,
you're thinking these guys are babies. How cold could it be in Maui?
This is how cold was it. It's called sleepy boy. Freebie. Driving down a volcano makes you tired. Sleepy, sleepy. He must trust me. Cause the last time I really did any
driving was on the other side of the road. The merchandise I didn't drive. Much at home. Shoot. I scared him. That
is the Hawaiian state bird, the Naynay it's a goose. Um,
but it was probably good. I scared him cause he was walking on the
road and somebody just came bombing up the Hill. So, um, okay.
Hawaiian say bird check. [Inaudible]. Listening to an audio guide
of some of the Hawaiian words. And while many of you watching
probably know of Aloha, both. Hello and goodbye. It's interesting to hear the
meaning because the English definitions are. So when [inaudible] I love language. I love language when
we travel, but then we would love to
show more of local culture. When we
travel, we do experience more culture. Off-camera just because of the nature
of how you're interacting with people. One thing that we've really struggled
with on our channel is how to show that because we don't, unless you've figured out a better
way that you can let us know, know how to respectfully film locals when, or if you were seeing
that somewhere else on YouTube. I don't know if people are just sticking
the camera in people's faces or like on a zoom lens and like in a distance
without asking their permission. I honestly don't know. And then when you see something
like that on a professional documentary or you know, on national
geographic, that of course is all set up, right? There's filming permits
and it's all it's set up. So, um, I'm providing some insight behind
the scenes on how this works. We do actually get a lot
of comments like, Oh, you guys should share more of that. And it's really hard to manufacture
when you're just filming your vacation. Anyways. That's a little
bit of insight on that. Um, we're so excited to be
experiencing the Hawaiian culture and no we're not going to a
tourist Lou hour or anything, but we're doing our best
to see and experience what
we can while we're here and showing you what we [inaudible]. This is ya'll
Valley state monuments, the monument. And you'll see why the Spanish speaking is helping
with the Hawaiian pronunciation. I'm doing my best, but
it might not be perfect. Is that a lot of times where you could
just get so much reward right in the parking lot, but look at how incredible
this is from right here, man. I didn't do anything yet. Usually you
have to hike at least like four miles, but this is insane Plant expert, who she is
with the random facts. [Inaudible]. This is why we're here. [Inaudible]. I've tried really hard not
to say just major Vietnam. [Inaudible]. We are now boarding for whale-watching
in Maui and we've been here almost a week. Every single day. We've seen whales breaching off the
coast just from standing on the shore. So this is my number one thing to do. I'm so excited to hopefully get
up and close with some whales. It's incredibly windy today. And she said
that sometimes that means more action. So fingers crossed let's go. A rain jacket is usually the number
one thing to pack for a tour like this. It's a nice windbreaker. [Inaudible]. We definitely saw plenty of whales today. Be disappointed that you didn't
see a full breach. Oh my gosh, there were so many. We got
this awful breach on camera. Okay. I still didn't get a breach
on camera, but everyone is pointing, shouting out whales. I
saw the breach of them. The captain turned the boat
and then started following it. And that happened in Monterey in
California tomorrow doesn't count. And I was like breach. And then they
were like, you're hired. And I was like, Whoa, I just feel like I care the
most. And they said that on the boat. They're like, well, if you go out
every day, you're like kind of looking. I was like, I'm going to see. And it
was like so focused on the nights. And one of the reasons why we chose
this company over other whale, watching tours, as you guys know, we
don't typically like work with brands. We just kind of take you on our vacation. So we chose this company because this
is a nonprofit and they give back to the whales as opposed to just some of the
other whale-watching tourists here. And so this is Pacific
coast foundation. Well, we don't give the money to the whales,
but they do good stuff. What I said through education,
through education and um, conservation conservation,
a lot of adrenaline, so much whale excitement. All right,
well, there's so much more to see on Maui. Let's do more go charge the camera
battery and then go off and see Molly. Our YouTube channel was born five years
ago just because I love making videos of art travels. And that was always just
something I was passionate about. And so I was thinking about that
on the whale-watching tour because I cared so much about getting
the shot just because I w I like want this beautiful national
geographic whale breaching moment. And I'm so fulfilled after that trip, because it was so windy. And at the very front of the boat, it was incredibly hard to stand there
because of the wind and the waves. And, but it was the best viewpoint for this
one wheel that we saw. So I saw the, I shouted it. The captain turned it, we started heading dead on towards
this whale in the distance. There was no one around because
of how hard it was to stand. I had both hands on the
one on the long lens, cause it's so heavy. And the camera body I'm so
tall that the railing was only up to my mid thigh. And so I was squatting down and
this was for like over 10 minutes going through the wind and the waves
with all Lou and I had both eyes. I had one looking through my right
eye, one, looking through my left eye. And then after so long, my legs started to shake because
I couldn't stand there any longer. But then that's finally, when
we had Maui in the background, the sun at the right angle
and the whale came up, showed its fluke, beautifully, went down to probably looks
like the seamless easy shot, but that was 15 minutes of me shaking
from standing there and trying to balance and hold on. But that's when I felt like I was
a professional videographer to get, get the shot. Well, I haven't seen
it either. Maybe it's no good. Um, but it felt good when I did
it. I was like, and I was like, how rewarding? It's a
little behind the scenes. My good friend, Jamie AKA the song for a
Vietnamese karaoke said that if I didn't eat a blackened mahi, mahi burner every single day while
I was here at this fish market, that I was a stupid idiot. I have not had, I have not had a black
and my Hema burger yet. So we are going to fix that right now. And what is this place called? Uh, is it pie a year fish
market? It's not the one in, Hey, uh, it's the South side. It's,
it's a branch. We're doing it wrong. No matter what, it's the deal here. This is
all fresh eat fresh. Jamie's right. For once. I'm kind
of a stupid idiot. That's already video. That's really good. [inaudible]. She was gorgeous. I just love it. Okay. Ooh, grant it. Okay. No pressure for me
since I picked up both Airbnb. You did so good. Um, I will be publishing a
Hawaii on a budget video and how this place over the
last place, $125 a night. This is a buck 50 in case we like
it. This is more than my other place, which still good view, but
not right on the water. Right. But look, it's got a wave storm. Okay. Ooh, King bed. This is great. Right? I'm going to be here.
Right? This is awesome. But you'll have to say
too for that episode. This is so funny. Tim was just
checking out. Oh, you're here. Look at what's here. These have really been the best Airbnbs.
There's so many towels. There's Oh, there's a cooler. And
there's those chairs. I know. It's almost. Like they're set up to
be used. It's almost. Like their vacation rentals.
There's a candle holder. We just stay in so many Airbnbs and
we're always blown away. I mean, we're always staying more on the
budget side, so it's kind of like, you get what you pay for, but we just can't believe that people
don't include some easy stuff. I mean, even the last place we stayed it for
eight nights and there was only one beach towel, a person, which was fine.
You know, we just like did laundry, but I mean, how much easier is it to
just throw in two more shallow Wells? And then it's like, wow,
blown away by the hospitality. So to just have extra things like extra
pillows and blankets and stuff. Uh, it's so nice, I guess, but, uh, tips, if you own your own Airbnb, it's just those little tiny things that
cost almost nothing that make a huge difference. Around the second story. I might
have things as a visitor here. Wow. Making life easy. Amazing. [inaudible] mantas. We're on the
hunt for Mathis today. We just want to go swim with them. If you go way back on the
channel five years ago, we tried to go snorkeling with
mantas and Bali. That didn't happen. We're hoping to turn our 4g
throughout today, here in mountain. It's seriously insane. How many Epic
things there are to do on just one Island? Unfortunately, there's something
we would recommend not to do. If you're new here, we afford to travel through our Amazon
FBA business and don't do much as sponsored travel that affords
us the opportunity to share
with you some negative experiences from our trips. This one in particular had
a so frustrated and upset. We spent the rest of the
day pouting in our Airbnb, swimming with manta rays is
a bucket list experience. We've been seeking to
find all over the world. We were out of season in Bali
and in not cold enough water, really anywhere else. Anyways, we had one day to dedicate
to diving in Maui diving. The Molokini crater is the thing to
do and what we would recommend you do. If you just have one day,
you can snorkel there too, because we've been looking for a
manta dive. Every place we travel, we were elated to find
just one dive shop on the Island who offered a manta dive, finding this dive was even one of
the reasons we picked Maui over other islands. Anyways, you probably know where
this is going. There were no mantas, but before you all think I'm a
crazy person. Let me just say, I understand what a wild animal is, and I'm not just creating an entire
YouTube segment on the fact that we didn't spot specific wildlife on a tour. You see this webpage is all
about diving with mantas, similar to what we've seen when
booking a whale, watching tour, seeing Grizzlies in Alaska or
swimming with whale sharks. Typically when going out on a
wildlife viewing trip guides, talk about how to
interact with the animal, how to keep yourself and the animal
safe and other educational information. When I say this tour had
almost no discussion of mantas, we were talking with
other divers on the boat. We shared dive stories and all
of our excitement about the date. See these mantas then quickly
talking with the crew in a very politically correct way. We started realizing that with the
exception of maybe one or two on the boat, no one had ever seen a manta in Maui. We discussed various fish.
We would see along the way, but there was nothing about the reason
we spent this $400 and six hours of our trip at this dive site for another, with doing so many tours around the
world and being scammed on some, for example, a Cambodian spear fishing tour with
no spear before we even got in the water, Tim and I looked at each
other, shaking our heads and said, Oh, it's one of those. Not only that, but the gear was inappropriate
for the cold water temperatures. Our guide was shaking and lips were blue
as well as me and other passengers on the boat. It was actually kind
of scary. It was just a bad time. The staff was super fun and nice. And this company goes out to good
dive sites, which I'm sure are great, but this whole false advertising thing
had all of the divers on the boat. Pretty confused about what they just
spent. $200 a person on anyways. I'm not trying to use my
voice on here to bash anyone. And this doesn't happen very often, Tim and I just always go back after
these experience lit up in frustration, we get to travel all the time, but what if this was your
honeymoon or your big trip? You've been saving vacation days
and money for two years to take. It's just so unfair. And that's why we couldn't even
do anything the rest of the day. But to end on a positive note
during whale season here in Maui, you can hear the
whales from underwater. That's right. You can hear them. You can even do this from shore
by sticking your head under water. Hearing this for the first time was
absolutely what I'll be taking out of these two dives. For number two. Talk to me about that was really cool. The warehouse, we also wouldn't shut up. Wasn't
a matter of, could we hear them? You're shaking to the camera shaking. I was so excited and just kept
closing my eyes and picturing the humpbacks that we're all swimming
in the distance, all this, and it's not even the top thing to do
in Maui. So don't miss the next episode. When we tackle the road to HANA.
