now i'm going to turn off the light to
show you how dark it really is with no
light
hello bloggineers we are at best western
pony soldiers in ensuite and we're going
to show you the fun things you can do in
flagstaff arizona located in the high
country mountains of northern arizona
flagstaff has favorable year-round
weather before we start our journey
let's go in for some complementary hot
breakfast there's bacon and skirts and
biscuits and country gravy they even
have a pancake machine and a yogurt
dispenser
we drove about 30 minutes from best
western pony soldiers in and now we're
gonna hike to the lava river cave
it's a 0.4 mile hike out and back so it
shouldn't be hard it's really cool
i'm wearing my masks i can
trap all the hot air in there
before we get there here are some facts
about the lava river cave this was
formed 700 000 years ago by molten rock
and these are the don'ts
okay so when you see this sign the cave
is just there we hang all the way down
that trail for nothing
let's go
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they said the rocks are super slippery
so you can twist your ankle use both
hands
yeah always have your hands on the rock
no matter what
there's a steep drop
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watch out for loose rocks i almost
tripped always make sure the rock is
dirty before you step down there's
another hiker in front of us and also
some kids coming behind us so so this
cave is not as isolated as before
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be careful there's a frog
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all right we're not sure how far into
the cave we are but the beginning was a
little bit of a challenging rocky
downhill
yes it was as for you
and now it's pretty flat and easy
uh and also the ceiling is pretty tall
now i'm gonna turn off the light to show
you how dark it really is with no light
the ceiling is pretty low here
it went from super high to super low
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we reached a place that's a fork in the
road one of the hikers said that the
left side is easier i think they both
eventually meet back
um but uh we're just gonna turn around
because we feel like we've gone far
enough
but first because i think
people can't keep up to
i can go the way
if i wanted to before we go let's turn
all the lights off one last time
i see light at the end of the tunnel and
trees
i've never been more happy
trees i really don't know how brother's
so fast at this point my left foot hurts
and he's all the way out there
and that is the lava river cave we hiked
about two thirds so we didn't reach the
end but that's fine we made it out
safely and that's the good thing and now
i'm sweating
okay
some warnings before you go in you must
bring many lights one of our lights went
out while we were in there
if you don't have a light you're you're
basically
dead unless someone rescues you
my favorite part was climbing up by
all those rocks except they couldn't
keep up but or else it was pretty good
flaxstaff extreme offers a safe fun
physical and unique outdoor experience
in the trees we were gonna go do the
zipline and kids adventure course but
unfortunately we weren't able to due to
car issues
the museum of northern arizona is a
200-acre campus featuring nine galleries
founded in 1928 this museum celebrates
the beauty and diversity of the colorado
plateau so this is a display of some
ceramics that they made so there's some
bowls
pots
and then down here this
thing looks like something they might
have used to grind up through
and
that's a palette
which you can put pigment on and pigment
is kind of like pink
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these are interactive displays but
because of the pandemic the museum
provides stylist pens which you can use
instead of your finger
now we're in my favorite exhibit the
dinosaur excitement brother loves
dinosaurs we're done with the interior
part of the museum and now we're going
on the nature trail
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there's a prickly pear cactus over here
and the prickly pear fruit itself is so
nice and red
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our next stop is the 215 acre buffalo
park which features a two-mile hiking
loop
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all right so we checked on google maps
and then basically if you go this way
it's a bit more scenic because there's
an open field and it's kind of windy but
it will eventually meet back up to the
main trail what we're going to do is
we're going to take the main trail and
go all the way down and turn left and it
will take us on a loop
i kind of like this walk because we're
in a nice open field
the only thing is i wish we saw a
buffalo like maybe not too close because
i don't want it to trample me but at
least one buffalo would be nice after
all this park is called buffalo park
so if you don't see it buffalo i'm gonna
be disappointed
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the next attraction is the arboretum at
flagstaff and today we are doing the
junior naturalist challenge
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so this is the start of the inner loop
which will be 0.6 miles long
so we found site number one i'm going to
check what we're supposed to do
so there's seven principles of leave no
truth
and in each crime scene we're going to
write down one of the principles there's
some footprints at site number one and
that cannot be good because it's going
off the path in fact one of the leaf no
trace principles is to choose the right
path and to stay on the main trail to
protect nature yeah you're just not
supposed to wander off by yourself and
then the question here is why is it
important to stay on the trail
because if you wander off you might end
up harming nature and you might also get
lost as well
we're now at site number seven this is
the last stop
and
this looks like an animal trap
so i think what they're trying to say
here is
please just respect the wildlife by
keeping a distance from them and leaving
them alone
our final stop of the day is elden
pueblo archaeological sun this was one
of the last pueblos that was constructed
at the site at about 12 50. that's a
long time ago okay number three is the
community room and it's the largest room
here because since it was the community
room and it could have held the entire
population of the pueblo at its height
of occupation this is really cool
because the native people were able to
build this kind of thing it's kind of
like a concert room that we have
nowadays and then it looks like there's
a fire pit in the middle and they could
have played some music here or something
and you're seating for the whole tribe
remodeled room all right so these are
just for model rooms there's a whole
bunch of text but
it's too complicated so let's just say
that these rooms were remodeled number
10 is more remodeled rooms
they don't really look remodeled
number 14 is early pit houses pit houses
are kind of like houses that are
partially beneath the ground we are at
the lowell observatory it's almost pitch
black up here on this mountain normally
uh when this place is open you can take
a tour behind us i think that's the
observatory building that white dunk
thing and
that's pretty much it up here it's like
it really haunted you
yeah it just feels super
scary
and also if it wasn't for a cloudy day
this would be there's there's almost no
light pollution so we would see so many
stars and that's basically it we're
going to drive down the mountain a
little bit and there's a little vista
point where we can see the entire city
of flagstaff we are at the city overlook
at lowell observatory and quite
literally we can see the entire city of
flagstaff at nighttime it's all lit up
it's beautiful
now we're gonna check into our room
we're going to give you a tour of the
king suite
so first is the living room it's not
often we have a hotel with the living
room here there's a huge table
another countertop a flat screen a huge
flat screen tv
another table and another table
two chairs and this sofa converts into a
queen size bed
this is the bathroom so inside
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a towel the shower is also a tub
toilet
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we're now entering the second half of
the room where there's
another flat screen tv
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a mini fridge just open this side
all right
and a microwave wait yeah this is a
microwave
just making sure it's not safe
a king-sized bed
this hotel suite is super spacious and
it's central to all the attractions
we're going to so it makes a great home
base
since we're best western rewards members
we got a gift bag when we checked in
inside there are two bottles of purified
water
and some snacks
yes we can bring this on the road
tomorrow
then there's a sofa
and here's the second bathroom
hi again now i'm gonna give you the i'm
gonna give you the second tour of
the
other twin bathroom there's another
shower that could be a
tub
there
over here there's
a shampoo
conditioner and body wash
bar soap towel
another mat toilet toilet paper
but on this one there's one of these
what do you call it oh the suitcase yeah
but basically both bathrooms are the
same it's just nice that we have two
separate ones
this is a sweet after all so we can
shower at the same time and two people
can use the toilet at the same time the
best thing of all there's tissue papers
all this towel and all the stuff i don't
know what to call that
there's the iron
the
mat thing
clothes hangers the iron and
bye