Vegas Trip - Grand Canyon

May 6th, 2007 at 11:45am

This is Part 2 of a three part series of our trip to Las Vegas. Links to Part 1 and 3 can be found here :

• Part 1: Vegas Trip - Hoover Dam
• Part 2: Vegas Trip - Grand Canyon
• Part 3: Las Vegas - The Strip

As planned on Day 2 of our trip, we headed to the Grand Canyon. For the uninitiated, Grand Canyon is a natural wonder located in Arizona.

Grand Canyon is around 5 hrs drive from Las Vegas, NV. So, we started early in the morning at around 5.30 AM. We decided to go to the south rim of the grand canyon since the north rim was closed and we could not find much information on the west rim (nor we had time to be adventurous)

Lake Mead from a Distance - Click to Zoom

The drive was pretty cool. Its flat land. Desert. The roads are straight and you can see miles of straight road ahead of you! … it was a great experience to drive ! :). We reached Grand Canyon at around 10.30 AM.

Here are some snaps ….

Grand Canyon - Click to Zoom

Grand Canyon - Click to Zoom

Cliff at Grand Canyon - Click to Zoom

At the Grand Canyon South rim, there are buses which take you to different View points along the Rim of the canyon. And they are free (i.e, the cost is included in your entrance fee to the National Park)

Grand Canyon - Click to Zoom

Pathway to one of the view points at Grand Canyon - Click to Zoom

You can see the Colorado River (which carved the Grand Canyon!!) in the snaps below…

Colorado River at Grand Canyon - Click to Zoom

Colorado River at Grand Canyon - Click to Zoom

Colorado River at Grand Canyon - Click to Zoom

Grand Canyon and Colorado River - Click to Zoom

More snaps…

Grand Canyon - Click to Zoom

Grand Canyon - Click to Zoom

Grand Canyon - Click to Zoom

Grand Canyon - Click to Zoom

Grand Canyon - Click to Zoom

Desert View - you can see the desert at the distance…

Desert View at Grand Canyon - Click to Zoom

River Again - Zoomed in …

Colorado River at Grand Canyon - Click to Zoom

Grand Canyon - Click to Zoom

Cliff at Grand Canyon - Click to Zoom

A Guy sitting on the Rim at Grand Canyon….

A Guy sitting on the Rim at Grand Canyon - Click to Zoom

A couple enjoying the (cold) sunset at Grand Canyon…

A Couple enjoying the Sunset at Grand Canyon - Click to Zoom

Well, by 5 PM, it was pretty dark, and all of a sudden, it became very cold!
We started to head back to Vegas at around 6 PM. We reached back our Hotel at Las Vegas by around 10 PM.

More on Vegas trip in the next post….

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