The canyon does not need man, however there comes a time in one's life that having experienced the canyon makes one complete.....

...or today's blog title can be stated ' how I survived going to the Grand Canyon from Las Vegas - a trip of 562 miles (900 kms) round trip (including 2 stopovers to McDonald's)
So there were highs and lows of the grayline bus tour to the canyon yesterday!
Lows
- getting up at 5 a.m. for a 6:15 a.m. pickup
- sitting in a bus for 15 hours it was only at 2:45 that we actually saw the canyon for the first time
- stopping at 'Mickey d's (McDonald's) not once but twice in the day
- the bus driver's humour
Highs
- price for the tour
- seeing the incredible Hoover Dam
- having a wonderful sunny day to see the Grand Canyon from 2 lookout points, the overwhelming feeling of this
- the scenery on the tour change from dessert to snow laden tree lined forests
If there ever was a next time I would fly in a bit closer and take a shorter more personalized tour. Once we got there we pinched ourselves while looking out at the majestic scenery. My photos are but a glimpse of this natural beauty.
On the bus we viewed a short movie of the making of the Hoover dam, an incredible engineering feat. We viewed it from the memorial bridge and not from on top of the dam itself.












We travelled from dessert to ....




Wait a minute ... I thought we had escaped the snow in Canada!




Finally, the canyon... Amazing.
















This picture is for someone special and set up in a way that you could photoshop yourself in it...








In closing we learned that they are several unique speices of animals that live in the canyon one of them being the pink rattlesnake - not to be confused with the pink gorilla we saw here in one of the shops in the hotel ...




Off to view more hotels and other stuff before our concert with Céline.
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