Karol Kaczmarek

While Las Vegas is definitely the most interesting by night

you have still a planty of things to go and do during a day. Three main ways to spend a day are:

1) Go for shows and exhibitions prepared for tourists

2) Travel around to some of the most beautiful places on our planet like Grand Canyon or Death Valley.

3) Gamble

We’ve choosen the second option, went to the Grand Canyon with a stop on a enormous Hoover Dam.

It’s situated exactly at the border between Arizona and Nevada (or border is situated exactly where the dam is )

and looks incredibly, especially from the new bridge which was built near there to take all traffic out of the dam.

At the beginning we crossed the bridge without even noticing there was our destination. High concrete barriers successfully hide all stunning view and you are not able to see anything from your car. It’s definitely worth to go to the visitor center and walk around a bit.

Our next and final stop was Grand Canyon. We decided to go to the west rim, as opposed to the most popular south rim, as it would require us to drive 5 hours more one way. Well, lack of crowds is not necessarily a bad thing and it still offers breathtaking views .

The way there was quite pleasant and nice, only last 10 miles were a little bit bumpy, as road doesn’t have asphalt surface there.

This part of Grand Canyon is owned by Hualapai Nation.

After small line for the tickets in a visitor center we bought the tourist package which included bus to the best view points and some other attractions like visiting traditional Hualapai village, where I tried to  light a bonfire (yes, I failed… those stones weren’t even flints, just ordinary pieces of rocks ),

shooting with a bow or throwing an axe

Especially the last activity was quite fun, so be careful – next time you see me with an axe I may not necessarily be cutting trees .

You can even rent the helicopter to take you down to the canyon, so that you can see it from different, probably equally amazing perspective. We’ve didn’t do it. First reason is that we wouldn’t have enought time, the second is that one of my dreams would be coming back to see the south/north rims and flew a baloon over it… hopefully sometime in the future .

As far as throwing axe was cool, it wasn’t by any means the main point of our day there. So let’s write about Grand Canyon. Or rather, let’s post photos here, as those explain everything .

And at the end my “artistic vision”. I don’t offer any interpretation of this photo, I don’t really know what I was going to show, but it’s a nice shoot .