CALIFORNIA / DEATH VALLEY


Death Valley is famous for its very warm, dry and unhospitable climate. I visited Death Valley for the first time in 2001, where I stayed at a very small hostel i Tecopa just south of Death Valley, and the second time in 2007 on a one day trip from Las Vegas. Both trips started in the southend and ended at Zabriskie Point/Dantes View.	A little outside Death Valley is one of the smallest hostel, I have ever seen - in the middle of the desert, with room for 10. At night you can see the light from Las Vegas, more than 100 km away	Entering Death Valley, highway 178 (138 kb)
Entering Death Valley (68 kb)	Entering Death Valley (152 kb)	Entering Death Valley (125 kb)
Death Valley (176 kb)	Death Valley (219 kb)	Mormon Point - sea level
Salt desert near Mormon Point (48 kb)	Salt desert near Mormon Point (95 kb)	View over Death Valley near Artists Palette
Dry river bed	Artists Palette	Artists Palette
In Furnace Creek you can see Old Dinah - a steam tractor that was used, when the first people settled in Death Valley (69 kb)	Death Valley in evening light (61 kb)	Furnace Creek - 190 feet (58 m) below sea level
Rock formation (85 kb)	Zabriskie Point (88 kb)	Zabriskie Point (89 kb)
View from Dantes View (29 kb)	View from Dantes View (71 kb)