USA Trip Day 11 - Death Valley
I think Death Valley is my favourite part of our trip so far. If the gradually more impressive landscapes are training nappies for the Big Boy Pants that is the Grand Canyon (we’re booked on a trip for Friday), then Death Valley is those Huggies that you can pull up and down.
Our room at Panamint Springs Resort may have been a little basic and lacking a door on the second bedroom, but the shower was warm and the restaurant was excellent. Breakfasts were as good, if not better, than dinner and the service was friendly and welcoming. It’s got a few bad write-ups on Trip Advisor, which seem unfair.
Our first stop was at the Mesquite Flats, with their sand dunes, just past Stovepipe Wells. At this point the temperature was touching 30.
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After a brief stop at the Furnace Creek Visitor Centre, we headed on down to Badwater Basin (the lowest point in the Western hemisphere)
by way of the Devil’s Golf Course’s weird Martian terrain.
We took a detour on our way back to the Highway round Artist’s Drive, and the aptly-named Artist’s Palette.
Time was pushing on by this point, so we skipped Dante’s View and pushed on to Vegas. The Sahara is at the North end of the Strip and has seen better, more glamourous days- something a recent cash injection is intended to sort out.
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