Young World Travellers: Day Thirteen and Fourteen - Las Vegas to Zion National Park

Yesterday was a chilled day with a walk around the main strip in the afternoon and lounging by the pool at the hotel. It reached 42 degrees on Wednesday which is pretty close to unbearable. We had an early night and ordered room service before watching a film or two - a nice relaxing evening to end our stay in Las Vegas. We weren't there all that long but we are trying to do and see as much as possible so we were quickly on to our next location earlier today. We loved our little insight to Vegas and Dan will definitely be coming back one day.

This morning we left the hotel around 10am ahead of another long drive, this time into Zion National Park which is a few hundred miles north-east of Las Vegas. We made a detour on the way to visit Hoover Dam, another place checked off our list, but it was pretty much exactly how you would expect it to look and be. We made a quick stop for a few pictures, avoiding the parking fees before getting back into the car for a three and a half hour journey onto Zion.

We drove through a timezone on the way, so we are now only seven hours behind the UK rather than the eight we have been used to. The park itself was quite pricey to enter but there were some stunning views. We opted to stay in the car and pull over at several spots along the way rather than pay for parking and we didn't really want to do any strenuous hiking in the 35 degree heat. There was a twelve mile ascending drive through the valleys including a mile stretch in a tunnel straight through the mountainside and there were plenty of photo opportunities on the way. It's a very diverse environment and we saw plenty of mountain goats running around in the roads and up the hillsides. You can read more about Zion here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zion_National_Park

After we'd stopped for an ice-cream on the way out, we headed for our hotel which was about an hour's drive away, but in the direction of the Grand Canyon which is where we are heading for tomorrow.

Day Fourteen Highlight - Driving through Zion National Park