WEEK 20 - THE GRAND CANYON - thursday 9 september 2010

today we awoke at 5am and headed towards the grand canyon, we stayed about an hour away from the entrance, so we enjoyed a nice quiet morning drive in.

we parked up at the first light car park and grabbed our sleeping bags [its FREEZING!] and headed out to the lookout. heres what we saw...

we then continued around the park taking photos from different view points

and reached the point where the grand canyon became famous, due to mining and a hotle being built in the early 1900’s. we walked the track down the side of the canyon and took more photos, the view is stunning!

finally we stopped for lunch at the cafe, and took advantage of the free wifi, as yet again, our t-mobile phone has no coverage, and booked in some cheap last minute accommodation on wotif.com at the hilton - $70 a night for the weeend yay! :)

i took a few more final shots of the canyon

then we headed out to vegas baby! woohoo! we passed the hoover dam on the way

and made it to vegas!

the traffic is crazy here, so we are returning the rental car early tomorrow morning.

we headed out for an evening walk, but got lost and couldnt find the strip, plus we are really tired from getting up so early and sleeping in the car for a week, plus we gained an hour driving here [crossed a time zone], so we headed back into the hotel to the mexican bar and had chicken quesos and a massive margarita for dinner