The Travelling Duo: Xmas & New years Las Vegas 2011/2012!!!! Day three and four

Road trip time! Paul and David picked up the car in the morning and met us at Hooters to then make our way to Death Valley. Another cracker of a day was upon us and after around 2 and half hours we made it to death valley. It was a very interesting place and very beautiful!

We made it!

Paul and I looking out over the national park

Again - looking out at the desert terrain

Paul flying

Salt flats at Badwater Basin

Salt flats - you can see the patterns that are made in the salt

The next day that we had the car we went onto Hoover Dam and the Grand Canyon. It didnt take too long to get to Hoover Dam. The dam is extremely impressive and hard to imagine how these things are built.

Hoover Dam :)

These little guys were running around the rocks looking for food - they were soo cute! We were nearly going to smuggle one away with us

In this photo we are standing on a bridge looking down at the dam and you can see on the rocks how high the water goes

While visitng Hoover dam you pass over from the state of Nevada to the state of Arizona where there is an hour time difference.

The Dam

The bridge we were standing on in the photo above - it was massive!

We carried on to the Grand Canyon which took quite a while roughly around a five hour drive in total from Las Vegas. We drove through the town of Williams which was really neat to visit and the road is part of the old Route 66. We stopped for some lunch and a look around the shops for souvenirs, the town was very old school and reminded us of the small towns you see on some American movies. The Grand Canyon was very impressive!