A Guide to Visiting Grand Canyon, Arizona.

Everyone has always told me that I would feel ‘humbled’ by the Grand Canyon. Did I? No. I felt really overwhelmed! It’s so huge that it was so hard to grasp the full scale of it, and I ended up feeling very overwhelmed, and not humbled at all. In fact, it was Zion National Park that humbled me.

Spending One Day at Grand Canyon

We had a full day at Grand Canyon, but if you want to do some hiking you’ll really need two full days to explore. There wasn’t much to do in the Grand Canyon hotel/town strip (outside of the National Park), so I think if I were to go again, I would stay in Flagstaff and then get the train to Grand Canyon. It’s one of those gorgeous old 1950’s trains with the verandah on the back, and right by Flagstaff is a stretch of Route 66 that has apparently been preserved and still has all the old gas stations and diners with the old 1950’s cars outside them!
Unfortunately when we drove through Flagstaff we couldn’t go and see it as we just didn’t have time. Also if you take the train you get three hours at Grand Canyon, which is the perfect time for the kinda thing we did – just hop on and off the shuttle’s at the various view points.

Grand Canyon really is an absolutely beautiful place!

My brother and I being daredevils and standing right on the edge!

Just casually swinging my legs over the edge, with a one and a half mile drop below me!

We saw five California Condors, which are completely incredible and truly breathtaking birds, not to mention, absolutely huge!

 

 

 

 

 

There’s a small settlement part way round the trail with a hotel, a couple of shops and cafes.

 

 

Grand Canyon is definitely worth a trip, and I really wish we had done a Mule ride down to the bottom of the canyon, but you had to be there at 9am, and we just didn’t get up early enough to go. We spent quite a bit of time walking around the route just taking it all in, every time we walked round a corner with some trees obscuring the view, the scenery above would just suddenly come into view and my breath would catch in my throat. So awe-inspiring, so overwhelming, so…just…wow.
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Catherine Lux

Catherine Lux is a veteran travel blogger by night and the Head of Content Marketing at Amazon by day. Originally from Surrey, she spent four years living in Australia (2007-2009, and 2016-2018), and now lives in London. An ex-party girl sometimes prone to relapses, she loves nothing more than sharing her fine dining and luxury travel experiences with her loyal readers.

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4 Comments

    • Catherine Lux
      July 25, 2012 / 11:04 pm

      It was incredible, I'd love to go back! I really want to go to the bottom of the Canyon and be able to just grasp the full scale and size of it, and I'd also quite like to go down to the colorado river that runs through it 🙂

      C x

  1. Natalie
    July 30, 2012 / 3:53 pm

    This looks AMAZING! My boyfriend and I went to Vegas last year but didnt have time to go to the Grand Canyon and I'm regretting it slightly… Will just have to go back ^.^
    Really like your blog sweety – now following
    N xoxo
    breathebeautyfitness.blogspot.co.uk

    • Catherine Lux
      July 30, 2012 / 8:10 pm

      Aw, it was amazing, it's kinda far from Vegas though, we did it on the way from Phoenix to Zion, then we went to Vegas after Zion 🙂
      Definitely go back – it's something that you just have to see!

      Thank you lovely, will take a look at yours 🙂

      Cx

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