Tuesday, 17 July 2007

TrekAmerica day five - on to Yosemite

On June 22nd, we left the campsite at Benton Hot Springs and started the short drive to Yosemite National Park. We got to the World Heritage Site at about 1pm, after stopping at Mono Lake for lunch.


We drove across the park to a grove of Giant Sequoias, where we went for a short walk which lasted about an hour. Yosemite reminded me of New Zealand a bit, with its steep sided glacial valleys, forests and lakes. It doesn't seem really that imposing, but we would find out the next day what it was really about.


After the walk, we drove on to a campsite at Indian Flats, where we would be spending the next two nights.