Lake Powel and Grand Canyon!

When we left Monument Valley and checked on the map with the road we had to  take to go to the Grand Canyon, we saw that there was a huge lake “on the way”! It’s was still a detour from 250miles but we really wanted to jump in a cool lake and hang out one day next to Lake Powell. Actually we were thinking about renting a small motor boat. Afterwards, we saw that it wasn’t in our budget so we used our arms as a motor, and rented a kayak! We paddled for hours through the huge lake between all the big boats and jet-skies… Fortunately we had our kayak to discover beautiful small islands and cliffs from which we had a lot of fun…Now let’s go to the natural Disneyland “Grand Canyon”! We did all the overlook points to enjoy the scenery of the crazy canyon, but yeah: it’s like if you are in the middle of nowhere but at the same time you have 100 people who surrounded you! You have to fight to be at the front against the fence to have a picture without cameras, cell phones or even Ipads on it!

The second day there, we decided to go hiking into the canyon and escape the crowd, and that was way better! It was hard not only because of the heat but also because we are not use to hiking like that. “Usually” when we hike on a mountain, it gets cooler progressively when you get higher. When you are tired you can always walk down… In a canyon when you walk down, you are not really tired, but it get’s warmer at the bottom! Once at the bottom you have to walk all the way up again! Luckily we saw a lot of wildlife: Male Elks, Condors…