Aloha! e Komo Mai!




Welcome to Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park
and Volcano Village Hawaii!



Volcano Village Hawaii



The most beautiful place on Earth!
Kilauea Volcano Hawaii!

One half mile from Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park!



Lovely, storybook-pretty Volcano Village! An old hamlet of winding, wooded lanes and beguiling cottages right outside Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, just two miles as the crow flies from the steaming caldera of Kilauea Volcano and in the heart of the Kilauea rainforest, replete with songbirds and exotic plants. Famous for its internationally known artists and craftspeople!

A perfect place to live! At least, that's what all of us who live here think!

And if you can't live here, the next best thing is a visit!



Nowhere else on Earth is there a place like Kilauea!



Here is the fiery pit of Kilauea, the most active volcano on the planet, home to Goddess Pele, with her congealed lava wastelands, roiling lava lake, eerie frozen lava tubes, fire and smoke--all set within the emerald jewel rainforest of dreamy woodlands, lush tropical jungle and exotic birds and flowers.

An incredible juxtaposition of extremes!



WELCOME!



E Komo Mai!



Aloha! I am an artist, photographer, writer and former nature guide who first came to Kilauea 40 years ago. The beauty, mystery and astonishing energy of Kilauea make for a daily spiritual transformation and aesthetic experience, and I love to share it with others. I've created this website to whet your appetite for a visit to this astounding natural wonderland, and also I've written a guidebook to my favorite places, so that you can plan a personal itinerary based on the time you have.


"The New Insider's Guide to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park"

is a click away, and is available in paperback and digital form. I update it regularly, because Kilauea is always changing!


A visit to Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park and beautiful nearby Volcano Village is unforgettable. I just wish I could take every single person by the hand and help them to experience the nurturing, healing energy of this wonderful place I get to call my home. Mahalo, thank you, for stopping by, and come again! Enjoy your visit, and there's a good chance I'll see you on the trail!


Scroll on down for lots more info, videos and inspiring photos!

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And check out "The New Insider's Guide to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park."




The New Insider's Guide to Hawaii Volcanoes The New Insider's Guide to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park

by Uldra Johnson

For all the best things to see and do at Kilauea Volcano,
including Volcano Village!

All in one place!
Plan before you go!


This is the guidebook you need if you want to go to all the most beautiful places and experience the best that Kilauea Volcano has to offer! Still-steaming calderas, congealed lava wastelands, dream woodlands, a secret lava tube cave, exhilarating, inspiring treks through delicate, lacy, emerald rainforests...it's all here!
And much, much more!

Experience the evolutionary splendor of the forces of nature, the dual elements of destruction and creation, in the land of the world's most active volcano.

Written by a professional Kilauea guide, photographer and naturalist who calls Kilauea home and loves to share its magic, it takes you on a gentle-on-the-soul, easy-on-the-bones nature excursions as well as hale-and-hearty treks for intrepid adventurers.
National Park

by Uldra Johnson

For all the best things to see and do at Kilauea Volcano,
including Volcano Village!

All in one place!
Plan before you go!


This is the guidebook you need if you want to go to all the most beautiful places and experience the best that Kilauea Volcano has to offer! Still-steaming calderas, congealed lava wastelands, dream woodlands, a secret lava tube cave, exhilarating, inspiring treks through delicate, lacy, emerald rainforests...it's all here!
And much, much more!

Experience the evolutionary splendor of the forces of nature, the dual elements of destruction and creation, in the land of the world's most active volcano.

Written by a professional Kilauea guide, photographer and naturalist who calls Kilauea home and loves to share its magic, it takes you on a gentle-on-the-soul, easy-on-the-bones nature excursions as well as hale-and-hearty treks for intrepid adventurers.






Planning your visit to the awe-inspiring, incredible, magnificent Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park? You'll want to visit and stay in Volcano Village, just a five-minute drive from the Park gate!
If you don't have weeks to explore Kilauea, plan before you come!

Do you want to spend more time hiking the luxuriant rainforest teeming with rare tropical plants and birds, or do you want to spend more time exploring mysterious Kilauea volcano caldera itself and its geographic wonders? Most likely, you will want to do some of both! Want to hike or drive? Want to picnic in a remote spot and enjoy an entire afternoon just looking at stupendous scenery, or would you more enjoy an afternoon drive cruising on one of the most stunning, amaze-eye-ball roads all the way down 22 miles to the sea, stopping off at numerous pit-craters, petrified lava forest and petroglyph fields? Maybe you would like to enjoy a continental cuisine dinner by firelight in the evening or maybe you would prefer a grab-and-go local style supper?


Available here at Amazon!

Paperback or easy digital download


You'll visit Ainahou Ranch, Chain of Craters, Devastation Trail and Desolation Peak, Ka'u Desert Footprints, Kipuka Puaulu (Bird Park), Namakani Paio), Place of the Conflicting Winds), and the unbelievable Place of the Guardians (Pele's Playground). Other incredible sights include Pu'u Huluhulu), Shaggy Hill), Pua Po'o (Cock's Comb Cave), Steaming Bluff, Sulfur Banks, Sandalwood Trail, The Enchanted Forest and Tree Molds. These are only some of the places you'll love exploring!


The Insider's Guide to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park will tell you all about the places to see in lovely Volcano Village too. This is the Kilauea guide for both families on vacation and adventurers extraordinaire!


You won't be able to wait to get here!

But...plan before you come!

There is so much to see and do!





Newly revised after the eruption of 2018!

And updated as important changes occur!

*My older edition is also updated regularly,

so you can purchase either one.​





Sources of important info on Kilauea Volcano





Want to know what's happening at Kilauea volcano moment-by-moment?
Want some in-depth information about Kilauea and Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park?
Here you can find it!



How about an adventure through Nahuku Lava tube?





One of the most exciting adventures among many!





Photos of Hawai'i Volcanoes national Park

and Volcano Village





Regarded as the most sacred site in Hawaii by the ancient Hawaiians, Kilauea is one of the most precious environments on our planet! No wonder! It is habitat for one of the largest numbers of rare birds and other endangered, exotic flora and fauna which exist nowhere else. And Volcano Village is a magical delicate jewel nestled in the heart of one of the most pristine rainforests on Earth, yet, unbelievably, less than three miles from the stark, lava-encrusted center of the most active volcanos on Earth, Kilauea Volcano, home of the fire goddess, Pele!


Volcano Village is unusual in the number of cottage industries which thrive here. You can buy the most delicious candy, jelly, breads, wind and other goodies directly from their makers. You can also buy unique sundry items such as soaps, orchids and other exotic flowers, koa treasures, home-made quilts, and books written by Volcano authors.


​Volcano Village is also home to many of the world's leading scientists--vulcanologists, ecologists, botanists, etc. Tucked away in cozy forest cabins, naturalists and writers do their thing in much needed solitude retreats. And the majority of the rest of the population of only 2231 people are innkeepers, serving the more than 2.5 million visitors who come to the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park each year.


The presence of these thousands of visitors makes Volcano Village a unique blend of the quaint and cosmopolitan. Besides our welcomed tourists, world-class musicians, dancers, Hawaiian elders and storytellers as well as many other notables contribute to the very rich cultural experience that Volcano Village has to offer.


One thing is for sure, everyone who lives here loved Volcano Village and appreciates and protects this very special and sacred environment.


And now, please enjoy some of my photography and then scroll down for more info and helpful links!





And don't forget!
To maximize your time at Kilauea,

you'll want to order:

The New Insider's Guide to Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park

by Uldra Johnson

For all the best things to see and do at Kilauea Volcano,
including Volcano Village!

All in one place!
Plan before you go!





Available here at Amazon!

Paperback or easy digital download


See you on the trail!





Planning to beach it while on the Big Island Hawai'i?
Of course!

Then you'll want

"The New Insider's Guide to the Best Beaches
Big Island Hawaii"!


Here you'll find the top 22 beaches on the Big Island, ranked by a beach lover, a beach connoisseur, who intimately know the beaches of this magical isle.

From a secluded beach at the bottom of the world's most active volcano, to a white sand crescent moon beach with a 5-star hotel, you'll find the beach of your dreams!


Want to camp on a rugged beach in an uninhabited valley, and sleep to the sound of wild surf? want to sit atop a sugary white sand dune and watch silvery dolphins leap from turquoise waters into the gold sky in the diamond sunshine?


Or maybe you want to swim in an emerald-green bay so close to spinner dolphins that you can hear them joyfully singing to one another? What about boogie-boarding on the best beach in the Islands, where the surf never stops rolling, and whose white sands magically disappear and then reappear?


They are all waiting for you here in


The New Insider's Guide to the Best Beaches Big Island Hawaii!





Find all the most astounding beaches on the Big Island Hawaii!


Available here at Amazon!

Paperback or easy digital download!