A travel episode after long time.
Today we are going to take a tour of "Death Valley National Park" in California.
The name itself is bit scary right?
In 2019, we had a get together in Las Vegas among college friends.
We went to Death Valley National Park for a day during that get together. This video is from that visit.
Don't ask for Las Vegas video. You know about Las Vegas right? What ever happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.
Death Valley is around two and a half hours from Las Vegas.
Our first stop is Dante's View.
A short hike from the parking lot reveals the panoramic view of whole Death Valley.
The white spread that we see in the floor is the salt flats. We will be walking over it in few minutes.
A view of sunrise or sunset from here will be amazing. But we did not have enough time to cover that.
"Where are we now guys?" "Grand Canyon... errrr... Death Valley..."
A 30 mins ride from here take us to Zabriskie Point.
Yellow and Red tinted different, but beautiful hills.
A 20 minutes ride from there will take us to Devil's Golf Course.
You wouldn't need a reason for the name. You can see that in the view. All salt rocks.
Very next is the Badwater Basin in the same road. This is salt flats.
We went in the month of October. Temperature was around 100F.
But walking here in July or August is very difficult. The temperature can even go above 116F.
There is no place to even take a shelter. It is not called "Death Valley" for no reason.
If you are visiting here during peak summer, make sure that you carry enough water with you.
Seeing salt spread over a dry desert is just breath taking.
I don't know how Shankar missed this spot for his Jeans movie.
Mesquite sand dunes is 45 mins ride from this place.
Do not expect Middle East level sand dunes here. But still good.
My friends made me run as always. And I am the last person as usual.
We were able to cover the park in one day.
If you are in US, you should try visiting the park at least once. Just avoid going in peak summer.