Return flight
We climbed up to the top of the rocks!
Sky Bridge
Eagle Rock - the rock formation behind us is shaped like an eagle with us standing in front of the body and then the wings spreading out either side.
Boat ride at the bottom
Josh even drove the boat!
Helicopter at the bottom of the canyon
Ride down
View from the helicopter
Inside the helicopter
Getting on the helicopter
Inside the plane
Hoover Dam - view from the plane - the black mark is the propellor
Our plane!
Today we went on a day trip to the Grand
Canyon. We started the day with a buffet breakfast - $15 all you can eat - a real
bargain. Then we where picked up by a coach at 10am and driven to the airport where we where given a little packed lunch and put on about a 14
seater plane - each of us had a window seat which was good - it was one seat, aisle, then one seat. We then flew to the
canyon - it took about 40 min. The plane ride was
ok - at least it was until the
pilot - a female started cleaning the plane with wet wipes - much to
Josh's amazement! When all of sudden the co-
pilot grabbed the steering and quickly averted us out of the way of an on coming plane!!!!! Quite an experience. However, I was well prepared and had taken my ginger tablets and felt quite pleased with myself when we disembarked that I had managed to hold my stomach together - only just though! When we got off the plane almost everybody else was carrying a sick bag! In fact we nicknamed one of the men 'chunder pants' as no matter how may pills I gave him everything we went on he just kept
vomiting! After the plane we where put into fours - us with chunder pants and his wife and we got a helicopter down into the base of
canyon - it was so amazing and a totally different perspective. The ride took only about 8 minutes each way. Then we took a boat - like a pontoon really up the river at the bottom for about 30min before taking the helicopter back up to the top. We then took the bus around to the different sights - we didn't go on the
sky bridge in the end - no need after the helicopter really! We left the
canyon and returned to
Vegas about 7pm. We where quite tired so had sushi for dinner and an early night.
Return flight
We climbed up to the top of the rocks!
Sky Bridge
Eagle Rock - the rock formation behind us is shaped like an eagle with us standing in front of the body and then the wings spreading out either side.
Boat ride at the bottom
Josh even drove the boat!
Helicopter at the bottom of the canyon
Ride down
View from the helicopter
Inside the helicopter
Getting on the helicopter
Inside the plane
Hoover Dam - view from the plane - the black mark is the propellor
Our plane!
Today we went on a day trip to the Grand Canyon. We started the day with a buffet breakfast - $15 all you can eat - a real bargain. Then we where picked up by a coach at 10am and driven to the airport where we where given a little packed lunch and put on about a 14 seater plane - each of us had a window seat which was good - it was one seat, aisle, then one seat. We then flew to the canyon - it took about 40 min. The plane ride was ok - at least it was until the pilot - a female started cleaning the plane with wet wipes - much to Josh's amazement! When all of sudden the co-pilot grabbed the steering and quickly averted us out of the way of an on coming plane!!!!! Quite an experience. However, I was well prepared and had taken my ginger tablets and felt quite pleased with myself when we disembarked that I had managed to hold my stomach together - only just though! When we got off the plane almost everybody else was carrying a sick bag! In fact we nicknamed one of the men 'chunder pants' as no matter how may pills I gave him everything we went on he just kept vomiting! After the plane we where put into fours - us with chunder pants and his wife and we got a helicopter down into the base of canyon - it was so amazing and a totally different perspective. The ride took only about 8 minutes each way. Then we took a boat - like a pontoon really up the river at the bottom for about 30min before taking the helicopter back up to the top. We then took the bus around to the different sights - we didn't go on the sky bridge in the end - no need after the helicopter really! We left the canyon and returned to Vegas about 7pm. We where quite tired so had sushi for dinner and an early night.
