Death Valley National Park

We made the most of our time in the hotel and slept in a bit. It was a fun experience staying in a hotel like this but it's not really our thing and next time we'll probably be in a motel again. After checking out we wanted to visit a diner for breakfast but the parking situation was frustrating so we left 😅
And it also felt good leaving the city behind and driving into the calmth and serenity of nature, in this case the Death Valley National Park about two hours away from Las Vegas. It was supposed to be on the way but when we arrived at the visitor center they told us that the roads leading west and north are closed due to floodings. The detour will take another 4 hours so we had plenty of time to explore the valley. First we went to the Badwater basin, a salt plain stretching out far in between two mountain ranges. Also, the temperature there (around 20 degrees) felt like summer for the first time since going on the trip 🥰
Afterwards we went on a short scenic drive named Artist's drive, winding through steep canyon walls and "splattered" with magnificent colours. The time went by pretty fast and we drove to a viewpoint (Dante's view) about 2000m above the salt plains we had been walking on earlier. We arrived there just in time for the beautiful sunset 🌇

On our drive today we saw a coyote 🐺 and in the evening a kit fox 🦊Read more