We start our day with a drive through the Prescott Valley, and the town of Jerome. Jerome was set on the side of a really steep hill, it was a crazy place to have a town! Great views though.
Then we drove on to the meteor crater in the middle of Arizona. It was really huge! And really interesting.
It was quite hard to get the perspective of how big it was, but just by Richards should you can just see where they were mining in the early 1900's, and there is a 6ft cutout of an astronaut that you can't even see without a telescope!
Then we were driving to the Grand Canyon when we came across Bearizona.
It was US$20 each to get in, but it was great. Part of it was driving around in your car (with doors locked and windows up) through enclosures with animals like mountain goats, buffalo, wolves and bears. It was mid afternoon so some of the animals were sleepy. But the bears were quite active.
The other part was a zoo that you could walk around, with animals like racoons, porcupines, beavers, but the real stars were the bear cubs. I think we just got there at the right time, because the were so playful. By the time we stopped watching them they were getting tired.
So from there we went to the Grand Canyon. When I got my first glimpse of it I just said WOW! It was spectactular. I could have just looked at it all day! We were on the south side at the Grand Canyon Village. We took the hop-on, hop-off bus that drives along the rim, stopping at different outlooks.
The colours were amazing, and the size was hard to comprehend.
We walked about 2.5km along the rim, we were at altitude (nearly as high as Mt Ruapehu) so I got a bit puffed (well, that's my excuse anyway). We stayed for the sunset which was beautiful.
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