Volcanoes National Park has a great crater rim drive you can do around the Kiluea caldera. We went for a walk around the rim and into the Kiluea'iki crater. This volcano has been erupting since 1983 and as you walk through the crater you can see steam from rain water still pumping out of cracks in the ground.
Completely by accident we hitched onto a guide hike along with one the park rangers in the Volcanoes National Park. He took us around around and into a crater while telling us about how it formed, some of the wildlife, what he did when he was a kid, etc, etc...all very interesting. He told us some interesting stories too about the legendary tales surrounding these volcanoes.
The crater we walked through was once 800 ft deep but erupted explosively and filled up half of the crater. If you had been here for that you could have seen 1000ft high ejections of lava into the sky (safely). If you look at the photo at the top closely, you can see the silhouettes of people at the bottom. The photo below is of a wedding that took place during one of the eruptions this century, with smoke pluming into the sky in the background.
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