And then comes into contact with the Americans are truly a proud people despite the poverty and problems of alcoholism to combat what the state has banned alcoholic drinks like cholera ...
From reserves up to Utah (the land of the Mormons) if you order a beer you look like a drug addict: much easier to buy a bazooka ....
From this point (the most 'to the east) and then circumscribe the
Grand Canyon pointing to
lake Powell (the second largest artificial lake in the U.S.) to
Page ...
Stage especially if the lovers of photography Antelope Canyon: This is a canyon on foot, a large-throat a couple of meters with walls carved by the wind allow suggestions only when the sunlight comes perpendicular (between 11.30 and 14 ) ...
The beam of light can enhance the red rock in games easily color photographs (without flash and ASA 400 film please): in fact during the visit we make friends with Kevin, a Texan (San Antonio) which divide the route up to Brace Canyon (we thought it was gay but phone calls to assillante morosa my departure had taught us) ...
A sleep from which Lulu hosting in a very welcoming as its rooms and eat at Fiesta Mexicana (125 s Powell Blvd), where we appreciate the abundant dishes ...
The boating on
lake Powell are a number of excessive and thus renounce to see the "Raimbow Bridge" (85 to $ 112 a head!) .... We can see the wonderful spectacle of the "Scenic View" and "Horseshoe Bend" (the last and 'a ring of Colorado around a tall rock on a breathtaking cliff).
There are lots of beaches where you can take a nice bath: warm white rocks and flat Antelope Point (not far from the canyon same name) ....
Kavin's start with the direction of
Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah, there to convince a Motel that had booked on the Internet and give us the first digression from Routard: moltooooo unfortunate choice .... A typical American motel impersonal (vabbe ') whose carpeting hides colonies mites that are likely to have personally known Buffalo Bill ....
The canyon and 'a rocky plateau which encloses shaped plume or candle: the rock and' short first becomes brittle and then an arc of monoliths ... see hundreds and 'how to see an army of soldiers ....
He turns in the car allowing short excursions through trails and maps distributed by the Visitor Center
Here the squirrels are different (see photo) and smaller (called tamias): not the large gray squirrel by the tail that can be found everywhere voluminous and sometimes aggressive addocchiano if your cookies, imported in the parks in London, quite different from small European red squirrels which resemble those instead ...
The day after we leave for
Zion National Park, southwest Utah: we are in the land where the pioneers Mormons fled and prolific naming the place, drawing on the biblical
Zion of memory.
The access road to the park and 'winding but spectacular, access to the park of 600 sq km can visit the gorge admiring dell'omonimo canyon from the bottom .... The Virgin River has carved the canyon in 13 years, creating millions of high vertical walls up to 900 meters, a paradise of freeclimbers climbers and athletes, from many different colors, depending also of the light ....
The park and 'very luxuriant and easily find animals accustomed by now to not only the squirrels (they are the same ones that are imported in the parks in London, the big gray squirrel tail voluminous and sometimes aggressive addocchiano if your biscuits, well other than red Europeans), but also "peak", elk, deer ... fines for those who are found to provide them with crumbs!
The park turns easily with the free bus, on foot or by bicycle ....
Sleep at the B & B Under The Eaves, really nice and well cared for (all'europea), with generous breakfast and where we know a couple of nice trentini they are doing the same tour back (Routard hand of course).
Kavin salute in the morning that continues to the North Rim while we close the circle "in
Las Vegas (Nevada) where we spend the last two nights ....
Incredible arrival in this city: from the wilderness additions in this amusement park that appears to us as the Italian triumph of Kich (as you write?) ....
Un po 'numbers? In
Las Vegas there are 18 hotels of the 20 largest in the U.S. (9 of the 10 largest in the world) and supply accommodation has 130,000 rooms with a utilization rate of 85% (rate records) to accommodate the more than 30 mil. of tourists a year out of a population of 1.6 mil ... .. The casinos earn each year about 6 billion dollars each year and at least 50 people won more than $ 200,000 ... The 50 chapels for weddings each year, 120,000 grant marriage certificates ..
Las Vegas has the American record of suicides and heart attacks (the game ....).
After so many natural beauties in short, the triumph dell'artificiale, but it 'really curious to visit some casinos to see how you have represented the European beauties (at least 4 must visit the casino, The Venetian, The Bellagio, the Paris and the Luxor):
The Venetian is unbelievable: 10,000 employees to manage a complex of 4,000 suites, 15 restaurants (Italian menu) etcc ... E 'faithful reproduction of Venice's St. Mark's Square pigeons trained with, the Grand Canal by gondola crossed electric ($ 13 the turn), gondolier singing Neapolitan songs (vabbè), Palazzo Ducale, the Bridge of Sighs, all using 3000 tons of Italian marble ...
Thus, the Bellagio is like a palace with Italian mosaics, gardens, pergolas and play outside the Lake Como with drug admirable water games for free (see the film Ocean's eleven) ...
Paris could miss as well reproduced by the Paris
Las Vegas Casino Resort with Place de l'Etolie, the Arc de Triomphe, the Champs Elysees, the Gare d'Orsay, etc etc ... with a lot of Tour Eiffel ...
Luxor reproduces the same size in the pyramid of Giza, with sphinx and obelisk at .... The atrium of the pyramid and 'the largest in the world (there are 9 boing) and there are lifts that lead customers along the oblique of the pyramid!
Each casino has buffet where you can eat at will and all paying a fixed ....
Americans who visit the casino are often obese, dedicated to the game and the food are so many obese people to move from a wheelchair with motor as the handicapped!
Chevrolet deliver the trust and resume the flight to Boston where leaving the next day for Italy once again separated from my beautiful again for the summer holidays in Spain (see trip dossier Majorca and Minorca).
Horizons that the deserts of Arizona, which colors the rocky mountains, which show the
Grand Canyon .... But even that easy to turn the U.S. capable of great organization ....
See you soon ... Uncle Sam.
Andrea & Sonila