Updates from the other side of the planet

Hi everyone. Nowadays i having two jobs in grand canyon. Morning i work in lodges ... well , i was a guest room attendent , tidy up beds , wash the freaking toilets and basins whatever . But guess what ? I think i am getting a promotion real soon. I will be an inspector inspecting the rooms done by the guest room attendents. No more toilets ! At night , i work at general store as a cashier helper ... just help the cashier bag in all the stuffs customer bought. Well , it is a very nice job since it is very relaxing and i got the chance to chat with customers from every corner of the world. I met many from german , french , hong kong , japan , and lots more from europe and other states of US.

I get to know lots of friends ... i know some really cool americans and thailand people. I got some friend from ukraine and dominican replubic. Well , this is hell of a big family here. I hope i can spend more time talk about grand canyon with ya all ! It is so close to nature , so spiritual , and so friendly. haha , now every night i watch NBA with americans , drink beer and wine with my friends . i had one friend from west .. he is real cool, he was raised as a cowboy .. he had hunted deers and other animal on horseback and on jeep. It is real fun hearing his stories ... hopefully someday he can bring us to a hunting trip !

i gotta put some photos here from the past tour i went . For this past week , i went for numeral tours. Desert view tour where we got to see desert from the canyon from afar , moonwalk tour where we hike with rangers in the middle of the full moon night , and a superb hiking from canyon down to the colorado river. The desert view tour was very nice. It cost 35 USD but it is free for employee ... we went for canyon museum , an ancient watchtower that stands tall at the rim of the canyon, and the spectacular view of colorado river from the top of the canyon.

This canyon is very special .. the view , the feel and the amazement it brings will be different from every different viewing angle.

For moonwalk tour , the ranger had told us different stories about the native american that llives in grand canyon. There are basically navajo , hopi and havasupai tribes living in the canyon area. The ranger told us stories about the origin of moon by the tradition of the 3 different tribes . Then the ranger told us about how everything ( animal , plant , human ) react in this full moon. It was a really really interesting tour. The moon is not any bigger than we see in msia, but it is definately brighter , thanks to the light polution control that they have in grand canyon national park.( we have really really super little street lamps at night to reduce light pollution. We actually can see thousand of stars with naked eye at night without moon ) . They ranger also said we are about to see milky way very soon. I also saw meteor that night. It is nice walking in the desert at night .

Lastly , the hiking tour deserves a full post ... let's see some beautiful photos i took during the hike first here. The hike took us 2 days , we walked about 16 miles ( 25 KM ) round trip in 2 days , descending 1.5KM and ascending 1.5 KM.

This is not sunrise ... if sunrise the whole canyon would be golden in colour , including the clouds. this is taken at about 6 oclock. Sun rises at about 5.00 in canyon.

this photo is taken while we were half way down the trail. We took 6 hours to hike down , and 8 hours to hike up. We only had short but frequent rests during the hike.

This is the famous bridge that we'll have to cross.

Seems like i compressed this too much .. it lost some details ...

Alright , i will post when i got offday ... now seems like i dun have offday that soon ..

Till then !!

Atlantiz 0 , Xu SHen