Grand Canyon

The last leg of our journey was the Grand Canyon. We set off in the afternoon from Bryce Canyon so we travelled throughout the evening to Arizona. We had a few "Waow" moments approaching Cameron with the sun setting over huge plains and canyons, when you can see hundred of miles around and the nature is outstanding, bare plains, deep valleys and red cliffs. We drove to Lake Powell and stpped to admire it. We arrived at Grand Canyon Village on the South Rim at night and really discovered it in the morning. The size of it made it difficult to comprehend, It is more thean a hundred mile wide, a huge opening in the mountain. We walked along the Rim for part of the day, and had to get used to the heat again, after Zion and Bryce. Of course we were in one of the most famous spots in the world and had been caught up with mass tourism, buses and coaches poured out the crowds, and we realised August wasn't the best time of the year to come here. We din't have enough time to embark on a hike, for that you need at least two days on a mule trail, which is the way we had enjoyed Zion and Bryce, shame really. Staying in Bright Angel Lodge was great. It had been bult in the late 19th Century by odd adventurers/ travellers/ miners and restaured in the 1930's. A few old buildings had been restaured. We didn't spend more than a day, it was already saturday and we had to head off to California.