Day 7 was a day trip out of Las Vegas to the Valley of Fire for sight seeing.
We travelled out of Las Vegas to our destination...
What Las Vegas looks like during the day:
The arid landscape outside the city:
Entering the area known as the Valley of Fire, we started seeing rocks and landforms that gave the place it's name...
Red rocks and arid lands:
We stopped by a rock formation named the "Beehives"...
...which was named as such due it's look, which was caused by weathering and erosion.
Loads of beautiful rocks and cool formations there:
A bit of rock climbing too...
...and me taking a photo of my shadow :P
From the "Beehives", we travelled along, and passed an area where the colour of the rocks changed to yellow...
...and travelled along the long winding road through the valley:
Then we stopped by a place known as the "Atlatl Rock", which was a tall rock that had ancient petroglyphs carved on it.
It was quite high up, and I've wondered why the people didn't just carve it at a more accessible level.
There was also more nice looking rocks there...
...and a nice view of the wide desert plain:
Leaving the "Atlatl Rock", we went to look at the "Poodle Rock". How it got it's name is quite obvious:
Another look:
After the "Poodle Rock", we ended our trip to the Valley of Fire, and headed back to Las Vegas for shopping...
I didn't find anything nice to buy, unfortunately, but I think my sister and mother bought more than enough to cover my share.
After returning to our hotel to off-load all the shopped goods, we went out and took in the sights of night-time Las Vegas...
...which was what Las Vegas was all about.
We also saw the light show at old downtown Las Vegas, which wasn't as interesting as I'd thought it to be...
...before we ended the night.
Once again, to be continued.
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