Back to Nature

Woke up really late today. Guess everybody is trying to enjoy the calmness of the outskirts. Haha. Decided to skip some part of the national park to get to airport in time. Poor Ranjan n Sosan will also need to skip Santa Monica Beach :(

Entrance of Furnace Creek

We first headed off to badwater, the lowest point in the western hemisphere. A few hundread feet below sea level. It is freaking hot once we get out of the car. The area is full of salt creek and the most amazing fact is that small little fishes lives in puddles of water between them. The view was great but difficult to capture on camera. We didn’t stay too long as the heat was really crazy.

-282 feet below sea level

View of Badwater
A closer look. There are pulp fish in the water!

Road to nowhere

Headed off back to the car. This time I am taking the wheel as Ranjan need to eat. We are so deprive of time that we had to eat in the car. Haha. We headed for Artist Drive. Stopped by the road countless number of times to take picture. Hehe.

Ranjan got on the car!I copied, Haha.Sosan too, but she too scared to stand. Oops!

Continued our journey towards Artist Pallete. The colours formed by the erosion of the soil is so beautiful. Such a nice mix of colour. This is ceetainly better than the grand canyon. Hehe. The drive around this area is even more fun. I feel like I am thrown into a off road race car circuit. Winding roads, rocks canyon between the road, dips, sharp u-turn, you name it you got it.

Nice photo!
Calendar models!
Artist Pallete

Our final destination in Death Valley is the Sand Dunes. Some wanted to try rolling on the sand but changed their mind as they sand was too hot. Still, one was crazy enough to lie on the hot baking sand. Haha.

View of the dessert behind trees.We're in the dessert!
Water! I need Water! Drink Advert. Anybody need a model?

The rest of the day is spent driving to LA. We were looking out for traffic police all the way due to my previous speeding experience. Gosh. Lucky this time everything went well. Thank God. It was 7pm when we got to LA. Did nothing much but chill at the airport and had a dinner together. Sosan called it a final dinner and got a ‘Choi!’ from all of us. Haha.

It is 300 plus miles to LA!

Goodbye my travel buddies. You guys are so fun to be with. So gonna miss traveling with all of you. You guys sure make the travel bearable, interesting and most of all FUN!
Bye papa Ranjan who looks after the group, Sosan the entertainer of the group and Hendrik the cameraman! This holiday would have never been so perfect without you all. Gotta do this again in the future!

Bye! Gonna miss you all.