Grand Canyon
This was the big one. Our last wonder of the world. The one people had been telling us was going to be the most breath taking view of all.
We arrived in a seemingly flat landscape and parked our cars amongst the Japanese tour busses. We held our breaths as we approached the first view point.... then WOW, there it was, gouging its way through the Arizonan desert was an 8.6 mile wide Canyon made up of hundreds of different layers, colours and gorges. It was MASSIVE! Apparently the visibility on the day we saw it was excellent, 69 miles.
As we walked along the rim we both started to have a sinking feeling. It wasn't quite as good as we had imagined. It was definatly huge but it wasnt having the same effect as other things we have seen in the last year. We decided that it most probably has something to do with the big build up, and our intense beauty blindness we have developed.
Beauty blindness occurs when you continuosly see amazing things, gradually things need to be bigger, better, and more and more different or amazing to catch your attention. For example, having just done our trip across the Attacama desert and Bolivian salt flats we were on a bus which drove around Lake Titicaca, Sam and I barely lifted our heads from our books to look out of the window. You could spot the other backpackers on the bus because they were either reading or sleeping, but the toursist that had just arrived had their chins on the floor, dribbling at the amazing view out the window.
All the same we did manage to appreciate the Canyon for being utterly stunning, and although we would love to say it was one of the most amazing things we have ever seen, we can't. This is just our opinion on the day though, we both think that anyone visiting America should definatly make it part of their visit as I'm sure everyone will be gob smacked by it.
We arrived in a seemingly flat landscape and parked our cars amongst the Japanese tour busses. We held our breaths as we approached the first view point.... then WOW, there it was, gouging its way through the Arizonan desert was an 8.6 mile wide Canyon made up of hundreds of different layers, colours and gorges. It was MASSIVE! Apparently the visibility on the day we saw it was excellent, 69 miles.
As we walked along the rim we both started to have a sinking feeling. It wasn't quite as good as we had imagined. It was definatly huge but it wasnt having the same effect as other things we have seen in the last year. We decided that it most probably has something to do with the big build up, and our intense beauty blindness we have developed.
Beauty blindness occurs when you continuosly see amazing things, gradually things need to be bigger, better, and more and more different or amazing to catch your attention. For example, having just done our trip across the Attacama desert and Bolivian salt flats we were on a bus which drove around Lake Titicaca, Sam and I barely lifted our heads from our books to look out of the window. You could spot the other backpackers on the bus because they were either reading or sleeping, but the toursist that had just arrived had their chins on the floor, dribbling at the amazing view out the window.
All the same we did manage to appreciate the Canyon for being utterly stunning, and although we would love to say it was one of the most amazing things we have ever seen, we can't. This is just our opinion on the day though, we both think that anyone visiting America should definatly make it part of their visit as I'm sure everyone will be gob smacked by it.
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