Death Valley: hotter, hottest, hottestest

Death Valley, the hottest place on earth (it at least has the record: 56.7 degrees celcius or 134 fahrenheit).

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This picture is taken in the Badwater, the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere. Only suitable for the toughest people alive!

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Still doing great…

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Not so fresh anymore 🙁

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We camped high and dry at 8800 feet, where we enjoyed the supermoonrise and megasunrise at night and in the morning respectively.

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Off to Sequoia NP!

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Bryce Canyon

After the Grand Canyon, we still had half a day left to visit Bryce Canyon, which is a 2 hour drive north.

Bryce Canyon is different from the Grand Canyon because snow (instead of water) has eroded another layer of uplifted sediment, which is deep red here. This way, a quirky type of rock is created, called the hoodoo.

Incredible. Just all those canyons close to each other, and all so different!

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To finish, we went for a real cowboy BBQ and after a night in a real bed, off to Death Valley!!

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Grand Canyon

Grand Canyon!!!! If people tell you this place is so impressive they would sell their firstborn to see it again, better believe them because oh my what a shocker. We thought the Blue Mountains were amazing, but this canyon beats it hands down.

45 km long, 16 km wide and 1.6 km deep, little Colorado river has done a good job in carving a piece of art out of the earth reaching back 2 billion years in rock time!

Pictures will do the rest of the talking.

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