Death Valley National Park

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The lowest point in the USA, Death Valley National Park, United States travel blog

The lowest point in the USA

A travel blog entry by hildreth75

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... to camp there but upon review of the temperatures and sites we thought it better to make a day trip out of it.   This National Park is only a couple hours away and takes almost as long to drive through as it take to drive to!  The place is ...

Death Valley – Im Schatten des Teufels, Death Valley National Park, United States travel blog

Death Valley – Im Schatten des Teufels

A travel blog entry by schabby

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... unter Palmen ließ es sich noch ganz gut aushalten… Dann ging es in der morgendlichen Kühle weiter durchs Death Valley und seine öde, wilde und gleichzeitig faszinierende Landschaft. Bei der Harmony Borax Works (Mine) gehalten und uns über den ...

Death Valley..............., Death Valley National Park, United States travel blog

Death Valley...............

A travel blog entry by kptravel

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... Rather than just tootle back to LA the same way we came we decided to follow a loop route which takes in The Death Valley National Park, and catches the lower tip of the Sequoia National Park before finding the north western corner of LA. We set out, ...

DEAD HOT IN DEATH VALLEY…., Death Valley National Park, United States travel blog

DEAD HOT IN DEATH VALLEY….

A travel blog entry by toddfamily

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... heat that awaited us in Death Valley…. Flush from the beautiful Alpine-like meadows in Yosemite, we enjoyed a great drive to Death Valley following the Sierra Nevada most of the way and marvelling at the vast valley vistas before us. We stepped out ...

Bei 50 Grad Celsius im Tal des Todes, Death Valley National Park, United States travel blog

Bei 50 Grad Celsius im Tal des Todes

A travel blog entry by tripumdiewelt

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... 'er See war. Wir liefen also auf dem ehemaligen Meeresboden umher und dieses Gefühl hatte man auch tatsächlich. Das Death Valley liegt weit unter dem Meeresspiegel und würde normalerweise mit Grundwasser volllaufen. Tut es aber nicht, weil das Wasser ...

Death Valley, Death Valley National Park, United States travel blog

Death Valley

A travel blog entry by snowqueen

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... our drive to Death Valley, this was fairly easy- a very straight drive through barren, desert land.  When we reached Death Valley National Park itself, it was amazing- the sparse land for miles, and then a mountain, or a canyon rising up from the ...

Death Valley : désert, silence et hot springs, Death Valley National Park, United States travel blog

Death Valley : désert, silence et hot springs

A travel blog entry by loupsvoyagent

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... seulement. Pas plus que deux mètres plus loin il y a une croix, pour quelqu’un moins chanceux… Welcome to Death Valley… Après cet accueil un peu macabre et en voyant le paysage aride, nous nous sommes dit que nous n’allons pas ...

Hot in Death Valley, Death Valley National Park, CA, United States travel blog

Hot in Death Valley

A travel blog entry by hanscomxcountry

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... to beat the heat in Death Valley.  We were on the road at 5:30am and we arrived at Furnace Creek Visitors Center in Death Valley National Park at about 8:00 am.  The temperature at that time was 104 degrees at 190 feet below sea level and it was ...

Death Valley, Death Valley National Park, United States travel blog

Death Valley

A travel blog entry by franseninge

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July 9, from Bishop to Death Valley Sunny 30°C/86°F-35°C/95°F in the morning and   53°C/128°F in the afternoon   We slept poorly! Frans was awake from 03.30 and I finished sleeping at 04.00. So we killed time by playing Nintendo, ...

Heat, flowers and salt, Death Valley National Park, United States travel blog

Heat, flowers and salt

A travel blog entry by winegalcj

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... it crunch beneath your feet and it was obviously wet.  Cool.  I took off after a bus load of tourists showed up. Death Valley does not have fences.  There are very few “keep out” signs.  With over 9000 acres of salt flats ...

Lookin for Wildflowers, Death Valley National Park, United States travel blog

Lookin for Wildflowers

A travel blog entry by winegalcj

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... brushstrokes of yellow, orange and magenta. As expected and anticipated, the landscape changed dramatically as I passed the roadway sign announcing Death Valley. I've been here before, nearly 30 years ago – before my daughter was born – when I ...

Ab in den Glutofen, Death Valley National Park, United States travel blog

Ab in den Glutofen

A travel blog entry by olih

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... . Wir durchqueren in enger Kurvenfahrt in bunten Farben leuchtende Bergketten im Gebiet des Nationalparks, ehe wir das eigentliche Death Valley erreichen. Leider treten an unserem Auto wieder die Probleme mit den Bremsen auf. Mistkarre! Das Thermometer ...

Days 76 and 77: Death Valley, Death Valley National Park, United States travel blog

Days 76 and 77: Death Valley

A travel blog entry by jason_m_smith

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The following morning we set off to the Death Valley National Park.  The drive took us out into the desert and the landscape became more sparse as we progressed on the journey.  We entered the National Park and stopped off at Ziberski point. ...

Tal des Todes, Death Valley National Park, United States travel blog

Tal des Todes

A travel blog entry by toroamarillo

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... . So our VW had a tough day. But we did it without any problems. Auf unserem Weg nach LAs Vegas haben wir das Death Valley durchquert. Es ist dann doch ein wenig größer als das auf der KArte ausgesehen hat. Es gilbt gewaltige Höhenunterschiede wenn man ...

Lowest, hottest, driest, Death Valley National Park, United States travel blog

Lowest, hottest, driest

A travel blog entry by rachandstu

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... not really a win but Rachel chose to ignore that - he's just jealous of her skill!) We spent the next two days exploring Death Valley National Park just over the border in California. The first day was sunny and as we descended the 2000 feet to the lowest ...

Feeling HOT! 105 degrees...in the shade!, Death Valley National Park, United States travel blog

Feeling HOT! 105 degrees...in the shade!

A travel blog entry by traceourtracks

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... Death Valley. We picked up some more camping supplies and continued the next day on our journey.. We knew we were approaching Death Valley when the car temperature gage was reading 100 degrees! It only seemed to increase the further we went into the ...

Heet, Death Valley National Park, United States travel blog

Heet

A travel blog entry by lambart

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... 15 dollar de gallon zien staan. We zijn via de Tioga pass gereden; een mooie bergroute die Yosemite National Park doorkruist en een prachtig zicht op Yosemite Valley biedt (zie foto). Daarna een lange afdaling naar een zeer brede vallei. Echt knap. ...

Death Valley, Death Valley National Park, United States travel blog

Death Valley

A travel blog entry by stiphu

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Death Valley National ...

Day 10 Sunday Baker to Death Valley, Death Valley National Park, United States travel blog

Day 10 Sunday Baker to Death Valley

A travel blog entry by arealhighlander

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... on the 178 to enter Death Valley from the south. There was a fair climb over the hills but finally we dropped into Death Valley as the temperatures steadily rose. We stopped at a few places for photos before arriving at Badwater. Badwater is the lowest ...

Day 11 Monday Death Valley, Death Valley National Park, United States travel blog

Day 11 Monday Death Valley

A travel blog entry by arealhighlander

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... for Dante's Point (I keep wanting to say Peak but that was a Pierce Brosnan movie!).   We took the 190 towards Death Valley Junction - it's a cracking road, must have only been resurfaced recently. We turned off to Dante's View and back onto a ...

Death Valley, Death Valley National Park, United States travel blog

Death Valley

A travel blog entry by kare1322

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... ...its really pretty in March when its only 75 degrees and not 120.  From Aunt Isabel's she drove us the hour to Death Valley National Park in California to show us around the Southern tip of the park.  We did the quick driving tour of the ...

From a dammed valley to a damned valley, Death Valley National Park, United States travel blog

From a dammed valley to a damned valley

A travel blog entry by danandloulou

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... can be found (and hopefully some shade under them too), and our new, improved route meant taking a 'shortcut' through Death Valley, the largest national park in the US and somewhere we thought would be pretty cool to see and drive through whilst we were ...

Oven baked in Death Valley at 50 degrees...aaah!!, Death valley national park, United States travel blog

Oven baked in Death Valley at 50 degrees...aaah!!

A travel blog entry by nikandads2008

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photos and blog to ...

Death Valley Day Trip, Death Valley National Park, United States travel blog

Death Valley Day Trip

A travel blog entry by mattandnic

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... . The next morning after a breakfast of biscuits and gravy (how American is that?!) in the café we made our way into the Death Valley National Park.  The first part of the park we got to look at was Dante's View; a viewpoint at about 5,500ft, on ...

Death valley, Death Valley National Park, United States travel blog

Death valley

A travel blog entry by gen713

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35 deg heat with snow in the ...

Death Valley in the autumn!, Death Valley National Park, United States travel blog

Death Valley in the autumn!

A travel blog entry by thesairs

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... here in years and, much like the Grand Canyon, were surprised by the stark beauty that has been set aside by this National Park.  Of course, we had cool, overcast weather which made our hiking and sightseeing quite pleasant.  I can not imagine ...

A complete silence in Death Valley, Death Valley National Park, United States travel blog

A complete silence in Death Valley

A travel blog entry by katd

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... , there was complete silence no white noise, no animals.  It was nothing but silence.  An incredible experience. Death Valley's peak session should be winter (now) as the temperatures are hot but not unbearable like summer but luckily for us ...

A week of hell., Death Valley National Park, United States travel blog

A week of hell.

A travel blog entry by cobra1899

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... you know why they're called bombs. The instigator of all this excitement was a volunteer fireman. Wednesday morning and off towards Death Valley and the C.V. Expedition part of the experience. A short jaunt down the highway where we pull off and take ...

Death Valley - Part two, Death Valley National Park, United States travel blog

Death Valley - Part two

A travel blog entry by flipflopping

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... building and the place is still a tourist attraction.  We didn’t take a tour of the inside as there was much more of Death Valley to see. The road out was closed due to the thunderstorms we had been having so we had to take the long drive back ...

On the way back to California, Death Valley National Park, United States travel blog

On the way back to California

A travel blog entry by flipflopping

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It was Peggy Sue's diner for breakfast where I had a round of pancakes, glad I went for the two instead of the three! They were a little disappointing; perhaps the emphasis of the diner was more on visual stimulation and less on taste buds.  It was ...

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