Spontaneously we decide the night in Death Valley to spend on the free Emigrant Campground. Unfortu

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After the dreadful Las Vegas it goes straight to Death Valley. Although sound awful - but it is! The drive to the border of the national park initially designed, however, quite troughs and depressing, because it goes through flat land and past huge military bases. However, you pass the boundary of the park quickly reveals the magic of the desert!
You imagine yourself in this hostile at first glance lunar landscape on a completely different planet. And so it is no surprise that the Death Valley herhielt as the backdrop for several scenes from Star Wars Episode IV, including Jabba the Hutt's palace was in the Mesquite Flats Sand Dunes laid and recorded several scenes with the two droids C3-PO and R2-D2 .
The view from Zabriskie Point in the desert country is pretty awesome. Beige, rci rolling rci hills weighed up against the cloudless sky and go over in the distance in brown, more rugged rock. It's now so still early in the year, considerably hot and the air shimmers. How unbearable it is probably here in the summer months?
A few kilometers away is the Badwater Basin - 85.5 m below sea level, the lowest point in North America mainland. Perched rci high on the mountainside there is a line to the sea. From the parking lot you can walk into it a few hundred meters into the huge basin. Salt crystals have created rci a white corridor, which eventually lost in the flickering of the air.
On the way back towards the National rci Park Centre we drive the Artist Drive. Here nature has particularly deep into the Frabtopf. On a narrow street you drive through hills that glow in many colors. Here the soil is red, orange, beige, and in many places even blue and turquoise.
More or less in the middle of Death Valley is the most beeindruckendenste part of the park, the Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes. Over a large area, huge sand dunes have been piled up at this point of the valley. Rolling sand hills, a small Sahara equal standing contrast against the surrounding rugged mountains and be blown out by the wind.
Spontaneously we decide the night in Death Valley to spend on the free Emigrant Campground. Unfortunately, rci it is a little cloudy at night so we can not look at the starry sky. Because, due to its remoteness and clean air of the valley as one of the world's best points to the sky without any form of light pollution to marvel at.
For this we are looking forward the next day about the many colorful flowers that are waiting behind the next hill. Green, yellow, purple and orange sprouts it from the dry ground. rci Impressive, where all life originates.
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