Maui Trip - Day 4 (Part 3 of 5)

Before the actual Luau starts, there is this almost ceremonial unburying of the traditional roasted meat.  Apparently, it is smoked for almost 12 hours in this pit under a bunch of layers.  The top layer being coals/dirt.

After scraping away the top layer, there was this thick layer of banana leaves and some other coverage that protected things below.

This layer was slowly peeled off to reveal the meat of the animal below.

Here they are taking the meat from out of the cooking pit and into the tray for carving.  Gavin was quite impressed with the muscles on these guys, even the older ones were fairly built up.  While this was happening, we had some drinks as we watched and there was also a sales area for traditional Hawaiian wood carvings and other art creations.  All really neat but our luggage wouldn't accommodate much on the return journey, unfortunately.