Grand Canyon, US

Grand Canyon! Right after the trip from Copenhagen, I took an extra flight to Las Vegas. I left at 8am for my first flight, and when I arrived at the hotel in Las Vegas, it was already 10pm WST. That makes it total of 23hr-trip… Yes, I was literary exhausted! I managed to get up early (enough) in the morning to go to Grand Canyon the next morning though. Grand Canyon is something I wanted to visit for a long long time. I’d been dreaming about it.
Once I stood up on cliff, I could not believe what I was looking at. Grand Canyon is huge! I mean… HUGE!! It is so big that it seemed like I was standing in front of a big screen TV! I am afraid of heights, so I could not go to the edge of the cliff to stand. But I still enjoyed it very much.

We started hiking. There was a 1 meter-wide path along the side of cliff, but in order to go all the way down, it takes 4 – 6 hours, only one way! Then, we found this sign. It says, “Don’t even think about hiking in one day because some people die from the exhaustion.”



For the hiking course, you can ride of mules; a mixture of a donkey and a horse. It seems you need to make a reservation one year advance. Mules walk on the same path as regular hiking humans, so mules’ poops were everywhere; dry ones and very fresh ones… and here is Josh taking picture of “it”.


Cleon who acts like he just “did” a big job by pulling his pants right by the fresh poop!












Josh drove on the way back to Las Vegas. It takes for 5 hours. Everyone else was sleeping… I tried to stay awake and I was giving him shoulder massage from his back, but because I had jetlag from the Europe trip, I couldn’t keep my eyes open for that long. I think I was sleeping with my eyes half way closed…