After leaving LA it was next stop Flagstaff, Arizona whose main road is part of the famous Route 66. Our first taste of small town America. Although have to admit that we were really only there because it was a good base for visiting the Grand Canyon! (No offence to anyone from Flagstaff!) It was a perfectly nice place and fortunately we weren't staying too near the Amtrak train line as with an average of 80 freight trains passing through every day it coul
d get very noisy! Even staying in Flagstaff it was still a 2 hour drive to get to the Grand Canyon National Park by Shuttle Bus. But when we got there - what a magnificent view! I am finding it hard to describe exactly what it
was like because it was quite hard to take in the vastness of it all, the immensity - it was absolutely ENORMOUS! It was definitely worth the two day return trip from Los Angeles and also worth the 20 minutes of scary turbulence on the flight coming into Arizona as we ran into all the hot air! Once we arrived w
e hopped on and off the free shuttle buses which took you to various different parts of the Canyon to see one spectacular view after another. You could do hikes right down into the Canyon but because of the intense heat (well into the 90's!) it was advis
ed to go before 10am or after 4pm. Being as the only time we were there was between 10am to 4pm we just stuck to the rim walks on the top where the air was tad bit cooler (but only slightly!) My photos do not really c
apture the enormity of what we were looking at - hard to know where to start with such a vast landscape! But hopefully it gives you a little bit of a flavour of it. It certainly was one of the most impressive sights we have seen on our trip and as you can see - even the little chipmunk was keen to get a close up view!
After leaving LA it was next stop Flagstaff, Arizona whose main road is part of the famous Route 66. Our first taste of small town America. Although have to admit that we were really only there because it was a good base for visiting the Grand Canyon! (No offence to anyone from Flagstaff!) It was a perfectly nice place and fortunately we weren't staying too near the Amtrak train line as with an average of 80 freight trains passing through every day it coul
d get very noisy! Even staying in Flagstaff it was still a 2 hour drive to get to the Grand Canyon National Park by Shuttle Bus. But when we got there - what a magnificent view! I am finding it hard to describe exactly what it 
was like because it was quite hard to take in the vastness of it all, the immensity - it was absolutely ENORMOUS! It was definitely worth the two day return trip from Los Angeles and also worth the 20 minutes of scary turbulence on the flight coming into Arizona as we ran into all the hot air! Once we arrived w
e hopped on and off the free shuttle buses which took you to various different parts of the Canyon to see one spectacular view after another. You could do hikes right down into the Canyon but because of the intense heat (well into the 90's!) it was advis
ed to go before 10am or after 4pm. Being as the only time we were there was between 10am to 4pm we just stuck to the rim walks on the top where the air was tad bit cooler (but only slightly!) My photos do not really c
apture the enormity of what we were looking at - hard to know where to start with such a vast landscape! But hopefully it gives you a little bit of a flavour of it. It certainly was one of the most impressive sights we have seen on our trip and as you can see - even the little chipmunk was keen to get a close up view!
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