Saguaro National Park and the Sonoran Desert
Trip Start
Jun 05, 2007
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Trip End
Jul 26, 2007
Saguaro National Park and the Sonoran Desert,
Arizona,
United States
Thursday, June 14, 2007
From there I drove west to the Arizona Sonoran Desert Museum. I was talked into going to this "museum" by a park ranger at Saguaro. I wasn't really interested in going because a museum would just have stuffed animals and exhibits. But in reality this place was more like a zoo. It was ALIVE! Even better than that is didn't have polar bears and random things, but rather everything here was exclusive to the Sonoran Desert. So I took a four hour walk outisde through all of the exhibits. There were over 300 animal species and 1,200 plants to view. The walk-in aviary was so cool and birds of all colors and species were zooming all around me. They even had an aviary just for hummingbirds. Throughout other exhibits I saw numerous big cats, bighorn sheep, a bear, snakes, wolves, owls, and over 100 different species of cactus and desert plants. It was an absolute blast!!
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Next I drove through Saguaro (Sah-wah-row) National Park. The park was filled with saguaro cactus as well as other desert plants and animals. The saguaro cactus can grow to 50 feet tall and live 200 years.
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Saguaro National Park, Arizona
At night I slept in Casa Grande, Arizona. I had a delicious meal and margaritas at a Mexican restaurant.
