Grand Canyon
I´d like to tell you something about the Grand Canyon in Arizona. Arizona has 1.5 million habitants and is the fifth biggest state ot the USA. The local time is MEZ - 8h. That means if it´s 10 o´clock am in germany it will be 2 o´clock am in arizona (at night). For example: If you want to call your friend in Phoenix at 12:00 o`clock pm you must start to dial at 04:00 o´clock am. The Grand Canyon nationalpark was established in 1919. It´s one of the most visited Parks of Amerika. In million of years the waterpower of the colorado river formed the Grand Canyon. The origin of the name Colorado is “coloured” (in german: “farbig”) because the water of the river is blue and green - so the native americans called it coloured. The gap of the Canyon is between 6 and 30 km wide; 1600 m deep and approximatly 160 km long inside the park - outside it´s much longer-. Normally it´svery dusty and hot in the summer (nearly 100°F or 40°C). Sometimes it´s rainy but not often. In the Canyon it´s always 10°C hotter than outside of the Canyon. The maximum temperature in the canyon is up to 40°C. As the weather is dominated by the desert nearby there is a very very very low air humidity. In the wintertimes it´s very cold there. In the Grand Canyon are living 60 diffrent mammalialtyps, much of this are nightactive. For example: The favourit activities in the nationalpark are hiking, horse riding and canoeing. But the new buildt skywalk is one of the biggest attractions in the Grand Canyon Nationalpark! Who want to enjoy these perspective must be free from giddiness. 1200 m about the abysm, you can look through a glas to see the great blue - green colorado river.I would like to do the skywalk one day. Even if it’s a bit scary to me. I imagine this is like hovering obove the canyon A little information at the ending: The glas that they use to build the 25 million$ exclusive skywalk is from germany! THAT`S IT! DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!
Geschrieben von adminam April 30th, 2007mit 1 comment.
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#1. May 8th, 2007, at 8:15 AM.
Hi,
I would like to do the skywalk one day. Even if it’s a bit scary to me. I imagine this is like hovering obove the canyon.