Visiting Grand Canyon, AZ

Using Vision tour service, we went to Grand Canyon from Las Vegas. The Canyon is famous as the widest Canyon with its unique and enchanting sight. The first place we hit before the Canyon is the Hoover Dam, a giant dam that built in Nevada (I believe it was finished in 1953) to block the Colorado river wild stream and convert it into electrical energy. The electricity was distributed to California (53%), Nevada (19%) and Arizona for the rest. The reason behind percentage of distribution was based on population density at those states. Currently, Nevada itself needs the electricity more than 19% (think about how many power spent by Las Vegas only), so she has to buy the electricity from other state. In this ironical case, Nevada finally has to buy back the power from California. What a story. Every vehicle that approaches the dam needs to pass the 'tight' security checking point for safety reason, preventing terrorist to blow up the dam. After stopping by the dam for 15 minutes, we continued the trip to Canyon through the historic route 66, the oldest route available in US that connects the east cost and the west coast. The trip to Grand Canyon spent few hours before finally we crossed the Arizona border and saw the park entrance gate. The park is much more green than dessert or savannah that dominates our sight along the trip. We observed the Grand Canyon from the south rim. It was amazing to hear explanation from the tv guide that the canyon was actually located at the bottom of the sea milions years ago. An inner power cracked the area, made the sea level dropped down, and slowly the sea changed into rivers, left the stream eroded the canyon for million years until its shape as is. That is why archeologist could find fossils of fishes & shells at the Canyon rock. Above the interesting story behind the canyon, we were also amazed with the beauty of the Grand Canyon and perceived that long & hourly trip has been paid off with it.