I can't believe it. Today trip was supposed to start at 6.15a.m. But both of us jumped up at very last minutes which was 6a.m. and get ourselves ready at 6.10a.m. We made it in time anyway =P
2 and a half hours trip to Arches National Park....It took us about 45 minutes to go up.
The tour guide kept remind us to be back in time as for last trip, there was an old lady who went to the other side of Delicate Arch and they spent 4 and a half hours just to search for her.
The trail wasn't so hard to climb but still tiring....Somehow, it reminded us of the song " The Climb" It is always not about the destination but the path you took and the experience you get....
We saw lot of stones, one on the others in stack, I can't really remember the function of those. Perhaps it is use as signal of the path you took along the way so that you won't get lost when you walked back....
Our tour guide was waiting there when we were about to complete 50% of it.
* sweating* But glad that the weather was so nice!
When we were at the top of it....we saw the well- known Delicate Arch faraway from a distance. It was so breathtaking! It was formed by
soil, water and corrosion and the edges of one side was so thin that I wonder how it was supported.
The arch looked beautiful in the middle of desert, just like a circle of fire ring that waiting for tiger to jump across it in circus. We took a lot of photos with it...As always, we never mind to risk our life to go to the very edge of the cliff just to take a nice photo! I was thinking it would look even better at dawn, with sunrise =)
We walked back to our origin after 30 minutes staying over =) Nice view thouh, feel reluctant to leave =P
We were so hungry at that moment but we were informed that we are going to have our lunch after 2 and a half hours...Luckily we had our biscuits to fill our stomach temporary....Sad to announce, after long wait, I had my 4th burger on Day 6 but from different outlet, which is Starvin Arvin. Well, think in a bright way, good to try something new though.
The waiter was super nice to us, offer more lemons, free CINNAMON bread! (I love CINNAMON!), even talked to us a lot about the coming country music festival here, freedom to voice out their opinion to government and so.....
haha, so we decided to give him more TIPS.
Denver was so far away ! We were told that we were going to have another 5 hours journey to our hotel. So, we had another movie, Rush hour 3 before we bought our dinner and the breakfast for next morning in a supermart.
We get to know a couple. They were following us all the way as they sadi they had hard time to understand the language. They even said that they prefered rice but apparently you can't find any here. Their interaction was so cute... As in when the guy decided to buy Maggi mee which need to be cook by using microwave, his wife insisted that he was too stubborn and asked him to put back. Instead of taking it as argument, I found their interaction so sweet and lovely....=)
On the way, we stopped by the Colorado River, taking photos and throwing pebbles across the river.Failed attempt to make the stone jump across it though =P
Our mood was so good that time, eating our Cinnamon bread and chit chating.... then another 2and a half hour back to Greenwood Hotel...I was on bus journey for 10 hours, perhaps more than that...watching Iron Man 1!
And yeah, finally we were there.........
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