| Day 9: Grand Canyon NP, AZ | |||
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Tuesday, September 19, 2000 For the third day in a row we got up around 5:00. This time all of us had to get up because we wanted to watch the sun rise at Mather Point in Grand Canyon National Park. The sun came up at 6:12 and it was beautiful, but it was still very chilly! |
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| Entrance to Grand Canyon NP | Watching the sunrise | Who dropped those coins there? | Sun still rising |
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| Getting lighter | The rising sun (1) | The rising sun (2) | Quite a view |
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When the sun was visible we went back to our tentsite to take a shower, do some laundry and discuss what the plan was going to be for the day. Breakfast was priority no. 1 and we had it at one of the lodges in the park.. great! It felt good to be waited on too ;-) |
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| Our campground next to the park | Here we are | Some creapy crawler | 'Nice ditch, huh?' |
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| It's so.. grand! | It's the Colorado river | What a lot of rock.. | At an overlook |
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A shuttle bus runs along the West Rim and stops at various viewpoints. We decided to take the Shuttle and take the tour to see the canyon at its best. And so we did! Just take a look at (some of) the pictures we took. |
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| Wendy & Marco | Another glimpse of water | It's... the Grand Canyon (again) | Marco & Igor |
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| 'Six rock layers' | It's not just rock | Look at the wildlife! | More of the Canyon |
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| Landscape | Colorado | Is it a tree? | We just don't get tired of it |
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| Watchtower | Indian art inside tower |
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With our own car we drove to Desert viewpoint to see the watchtower. After that it was time to get out of the park and arrange
for our dinner. Which we had at Wendy's (isn't it cool to have a fastfood chain named after you?), before we went to the Imax theatre
to see the movie "Grand Canyon, the hidden secrets". |
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