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Today we visited… you guessed it! The Grand Canyon.
After a drive down the longest straightest road yet, we arrived at the Grand Canyon National Park. As we walked over to the rim of the Canyon I noticed the large amount of Japanese tourists, previously we haven’t really seen many tourists that weren’t amercian as Route 66 isn’t a massively popular trip for Europeans it turns out. When we first looked out over the canyon I couldn’t believe how vast it is, pictures just can’t show the sheer size and depth. In places it is over a mile from the rim of the Canyon to the Colorado River which flows through it’s centre.
The river itself is barely visible due to the steep sides of the canyon walls which hide it in all but one small spot. One thing that struck me was that it almost didn’t look real, like a painting, until I looked over the edge and saw the massive drop below me!
After we had taken in the sights and snapped lots of pictures we decided to stop off in a wildlife park called Bearizonia which is basically like Longleat but with more exotic animals including Black Bears, baby ones at that.
Tomorrow we head to Las Vegas via Peach Springs which is technically our last Route 66 stop (ignore my post from yesterday!) and is also the inspiration for Radiator Springs from the Disney Pixar movie cars, which as you may already know was our inspiration for booking this trip in the first place!
See you in Vegas!
1 Comment
Sean Payne
about 14 years ago ReplyBearizonia sounds amazing. 'nuff said.