“If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.”: Viva Las Vegas - my trip to US

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Viva Las Vegas - my trip to US - part 2

We spent a night near Grand Canyon - so next day we could be very early at the Park ...and we decided to use on of trail available here. Skeleton Point was our target ... nearly 5 hours round trip ...

Firts 2.5 hours you are going down

It's real :)

One of opportunity for traveling is using mule

Mule rides - it's popular way of traveling in Canyon

To know where are the overlooks

It was very good idea to explore Canyon and went down ... beautiful views around ...nice trip. We returned to car and continued our trip ... we ate lnwe left the Grand Canyon through East Entrance ...


Desert view - The watchtower

Our next hotel was near Page, on the way we visited the Horseshoe Bend

The Horseshoe Bend view

We spent a night in very nice hotel with some cowboy decor

Morning near hotel

American trailer - hmm...near 100m2 ?

Next target - the Monument Valley - located on the Navajo reservation on the border of Arizona and Utah. On the way we stopped and bought some bracelet made by Indians ... it could be a good amulet for my daughter for mature exams :)

Monument Valley is not really a valley, but a wide, flat landscape. Valley Drive is 17-mile loop around the park - it's dirt road and 4-wheel drive is required - remember !

The last attraction of the day was CottonWood Canyon Road - the great dirt road.

Road 400 ( CottonWood Canyon Road) is 47-mile (76 km) dirt road connecting U.S. Highway 89 with Utah S.R 12 at Cannonville. It traverses portions of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument offering view into the heart of the Monument. This road is considered impassable in wet weather and high clearance vehicles are recommended.

Unfortunately we read this information about wet weather after our trip - this road was our the biggest challenge during the trip - we were there after rain and it was total massacre ...