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tris'n'laws big adventure
arrived at the grand canyon in style, on an old stream train. it was really good fun they put on quite a show with a western shoot out show and a singer who came onto the train and sang to us all. it was good fun, but we had been up all night trying to get to the canyon so we were so tired. so it didn;t help when they managed to lose our backpacks!! we had to pay for someone to collect them for us and wait around for 4 hours!! i was so tired i fell asleep on a bench ( tramp) and being the good boyfriend tris took photos of me! a day pretty much wasted we fell asleep early in our tent.
next day we walked along the top of the south rim of the canyon. we would have loved to have walked to the bottom of the canyon, but it is so dangerous to do so in the summer as the temperature can reach 50c. one girl lost her life trying to walk it when we were there and she was only 19.
so we walked along the path to the stunning view. it's increrdible to see the different layers in the rock each dating back millions of years. the bottom layer it 360 million years old!! we also saw lizards, chipmunks, hawks and condors along the way. walked to hermits point and then caught the bus back to village. went to look at sunset, but typically as soon as we decided this huge clouds came over and we couldn't see much so we watched the lightning and storm instead!
next day was spent going the other way (east) along the rim. again the view was fantastic. our photos (when they are finally posted!!) really can't show the huge scale of the place. well worth a visit.
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