Thursday, July 15, 2010

Thirteenth day (12/Jul) - Desert

At around 10 we left for Joshua Tree national park. It was 3h drive. Before entering the desert, we went to get some petrol. We didnt't know which petrol the car needed so we spent some time figuring it out!

On the way we found literally thousands of wind turbines, as far as you could see it was full of them!

The picture doesn't really show how impressive it was.




We entered the national park, it was unbelievable hot, it was around 110f which I think it's about 40 degrees celsius. As we were going up the mountains there were warnings to switch off the air conditioning to avoid overheating the engine! Our engine got a bit hot actually..

This is as we were entering the desert.







We stopped to take some photos. Outside was almost unbearable, and quickly after the pictures we jumped to the car and set the air conditioning full on!









We spent around 3 hours driving around the desert. We were almost alone, you could spend 20 minutes before seeing another car.









There wasn't anything inside the desert, no petrol stations, or shops, or mcdonalds.. Nothing! But we were prepared and brought with us a gallon of water.




We got in deeper and deeper, the views were simply spectacular. It was just unbelivevable watching all that from the car.









We got braver and went even into an unpaved path. It was completely empty and it was great!




After more than 3 hours around the desert we finally went out of the national park into the main road. We still had 3h more to drive back home!

We stopped at a place called Baker's or something like that for a hamburguer before arriving home.

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