Blogs from Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, United States, North America - page 40

Well finally made it back to the hotel after what turned out to be a long day. The Grsnd Canyon was amazing....when we got there. The drive is only a couple of hours away but about 20 miles from the main point you have to come off the road and up a dirt track. This is when we hit problems! We managed to get a flat tyre - not exactly what you want when the nearest sign of civilisation is 20 miles away. Luckily we got the very thin spare on and a local gave us some emergency tyre filler in case we get another blow out. He told us that there wasa tyre place in the next town 24 miles away. However when we got there everything was shut. The long and the short is ... read more

Today we went back to the Canyon to see how it looks in daylight. We took loads more photos and went to several different viewpoints. We drove around the Grand Canyon National Park for a while trying to spot some more Elks but were unsuccessful. We called in at the trading post / general store for a browse around but Chloe wouldn’t let me buy a cowboy hat. Next we made our way to the Grand Canyon Airport for our helicopter trip. Our pilot seemed very young but the weather was perfect for our trip. Chloe was very apprehensive but did enjoy it a little bit. I thought that the views were absolutely amazing and well worth the trip. After the trip it was time to leave the Grand Canyon and make our way back to ... read more

Well we got up REALLY early and flew into Las Vegas to pick up a car to drive to Arizona. We stopped off at Hoover Dam on the way and arrived at our hotel late afternoon. We're staying in a really pretty hotel - it's got a huge roaring fire and comfy armchairs in the lobby. As it was my birthday, we had dinner in the posh restaurant, which was really nice. Oh, there are lots of people dressed like cowboys round here, but they're very polite. The next day we visited the Grand Canyon. It was absolutely stunning, there aren't really words to describe it. You have to be stood in front of it yourself. It looks different from every viewpoint. We've also been for a walk round Walnut Canyon, where there are caves that ... read more

Whilst en route to the grandest of them all, we stop off at lesser known Zion and Bryce Canyons - gems in their own right and just as interesting. Zooming around the bends in our Mustang and having table-top red rock mountains loom up was pretty cool. Here's some from Zion. ... read more

Next stop was a cool little town called Flagstaff which is a gateway to the Grand Canyon. The canyon was absolutely amazing, truly out of this world again but for different reasons, it’s just so big you can’t comprehend what you are seeing. Where we first saw the canyon it was 18 miles across..... You look at a trail heading down towards the bottom and it looks like it’s a short walk with few small bushes along a stream, but its actually like 6 miles away and the trees are proper full size trees!!! Don’t think you can ever fully come to comprehend the scale of the place, the photos certainly wont unfortunately. I then flew from Phoenix to Cancun in Mexico, arrived eventually - it took a while as my flight had a connection in ... read more