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A trip to the United States.. My tour of the southwestern Parks and a trip to New York
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Departure
5:15 am, all in the car, load the luggage and under a light rain we set off for Malpensa. Fortunately, there is no traffic at 6 am and we are already well outside the airport with one hour in advance. We chose to fly Lufthansa (flight booked to March € 600 each), and after a stopover in Dusseldorf arrive in
New York on time. Here, after the ritual customs controls to change the terminal and go to check-in for the flight that will take us to
Las Vegas. Fatigue starts to bite, the jet-lag as well, and our faces to prove it. Finally at 20 hours local party and after 5 hours of flight (Continental 125 €) we arrive in
Las Vegas at 22.00 local. Here we take the Shuttle $ 6 (but I recommend you also take a taxi there is little difference in price and is faster), which brings us to the Luxor (25 euro per person per night), where we take our rooms, we leave your bags and go a ride to the casino, but are tired and then decided to return to the room and after about 26 hours we throw ourselves on the bed. How wonderful!
Death Valley
At 8:00 I have a taxi that takes us to the airport to pick up the car from Hertz. The choice of which company to rent a car has been very thoughtful, to avoid surprises. So we've taken a big company, doing all the possible insurance and this has made us travel in peace. Eventually they gave us a 6-seater Kia Sedona 3.0 petrol. Machine is not evil, people traveled back and pack up all there were no problems (cost € 590 rental for 10 days). Collect the car we drive to Death Valley so that visitors enter the southern entrance to drive through. The show is unique, but what we will remember the warm, 52 ° C, and then dries you remember to bring plenty of water at least 4 liters each. Also seemed to me a lot, but I assure you that they are all especially nothing. Bad Water visit the lowest point of the American continent, -88.5 meters, but also the hottest on the planet. Then we travel by car always drives the artist, and visit Zabriesky Point. Stunning views with particular colors. Here are the 13.00 and then we stopped at Furnace Creek where we visit the Visitor Center and buy the annual pass for parks ($ 80 if you need to visit more than 3, it is worth it). They eat good burgers ($ 15 each), we take the car and go to sleep at the Beatty-Beatty where Stagecoach Hotel and Casino. Motel not bad, I take a bath in the pool, eat in the restaurant, visit a giant candy store, we make a game of cards and then to bed.
Bryce Park
Wake up at 7, breakfast and starting for the trail of three small lakes beautiful Emeral Pool (but nothing compared to the Alpine Italian lakes). At about 12 we take the car and begin the transfer to
Bryce along the beautiful scenic route 9. Hatch long lunch at a small restaurant in a strange Adobe Cafe, Great. We reach the scenic
Bryce 12 and unload the machine at Best Westerm Ruby's Inn (28 € per person). We go with our car heading to
Bryce Park Rainbow poit, the last point ch is on the way back to hotel and stopping at every view point. In particular, very nice (from the last) the first three where they can enjoy a beautiful landscape, but especially the last one with views of the hoodoos, a wonderful sight at sunset. Dinner in the motel (a lot of people because it is the only one so close to the park) and unfortunately we can not visit the park closed for the evening.
Antelope Canyon
Wake up at 7, breakfast at 8.30 and we are at the dam Glen for the guided tour (5 Dollars): we see from inside the dam and walk on the crown. After the visit we go to Antelope Canyon we heard very well. All tours are full and you can not access alone. However we decide to go to the starting point of the tours and assists us luck. For $ 31 we can take a tour of Navajo. It leads us to the jeep to the entrance of the canyon through the desert. Canyon entered the left speechless by how beautiful it is! The colors, shapes, you lose the horizon and the three dimensions are mixed. We are sustained by a Navajo boy who shows us the best angles for taking photos. A paradise for photographers.
Quick lunch then off to the
Grand Canyon. We arrived at 16, unfortunately it is cloudy but the view is still very beautiful. We stop at various view points: the view is similar but it's nice to see the different angles. We do a lot of photos until sunset. As soon as the sun goes down we take the road to the Motel and to our surprise that somewhere else than where we thought. The
Grand Canyon is a very big and very crowded park, designed like a small town, with hotels, streets, shops and even the railway passes. It is different from what we thought: it is a lonely place, in every sense: there are many people, there are many trees, is almost cool. In any event the overhang from a sense of vertigo.
The motel is the Holiday Inn Express (38 euro per family room), dinner from Wendy (a kind of MC) and then to bed.
Grand Canyon
Wake up at 7, breakfast at 8.00 and continue the tour of the
Grand Canyon of the park with the Bus we bring the various points where you can not get there by car. The points are all alike: we were the best Desert view because it was the first and we were extremely impressed and The Abyss Poiny from which there is a view of the canyon, as well as a nice effect "precipice." 14 tired and hungry to do some shopping and we move in Tusayan for lunch at the Steak House. Then we leave for the trip to
Las Vegas. We arrive as the sun goes down and writhing in traffic on the Strip come to Paris (Torre is unmistakable) and parked in the hotel parking convenient. We go to the reception and the guy at the check-in is very kind and generous, it gives us two rooms on the 31st floor to check if they are saying to our liking. We go to the assigned plan: Everything is very luxurious and us a bit 'underground and very casual feel uncomfortable. Finally we come to the rooms, insert the key and the magic door opens to a suite from $ 3450 per night! With tremendous views of the strip, fabulous! We think you are wrong as we had booked a room for $ 44 apiece. So let's do some photos being careful not to touch anything and go back to reception to ask for explanations as we imagined our credit cards dry up. The boy with a smile confirms repeatedly that everything is fine and that he was a "gift" for us, the cost is the same, nothing changes. Not entirely convinced back in our suite and we hold luggage. Shower and Jacuzzi, and evening in the Strip. We play slots and Carlo is the most fortunate because he won $ 20, but our win was the suite. We are shooting at various casinos until 3 am and then go to sleep in a canopy bed.
Las Vegas
Wake up at 9 the night in the suite has been refined. Today is the day dedicated to shopping in one of the outlets in
Las Vegas. The prices are affordable and just take advantage. At 17.00 we returned the car to the Hertz Car Rental Paris and in the afternoon we rest and enjoy the comfort of the suite, jacuzzi and swimming pool. In the evening we watch the Bellagio fountains of eruption of the volcano at the Mirage. We would like to see the pirate attack to Tresure but the show is suspended for the wind. To bed early because the clock is pointing to 4.
Coming back home
Free morning: rest, consult the Internet and do a walk. The weather is bad. At 12.00 we take a taxi to Newark, where the 747 Lufthansa is waiting to take us home.
Conclusions
The trip was really nice, it's worth wasting a bit 'of time to plan it so you can see many things as possible and avoid unpleasant surprises. However, if you need any advice we are available. Hello