Small Group: Death Valley National Park Day Trip from Las Vegas

Death Valley is the hottest, driest and lowest place in North America, and it starts two hours from the Strip. We leave Las Vegas early so you are in the park while the light is still low and the heat has not arrived. You stand at Badwater Basin, 282 feet below sea level, on a salt flat that runs to the horizon. You look down over the eroded badlands from Zabriskie Point, the view that opens almost every photograph of the park. And you walk out onto the Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes near Stovepipe Wells. Between the stops your guide explains how the valley got this hot, how the salt got there, and how anything survives it - the geology, the ecology and the borax-mining history that gave the park its Twenty Mule Team. Small group, air-conditioned van, unlimited cold water, and the same driver-guide with you the whole day.

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   Oprirea 1

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   Mojave Desert

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   Pahrump

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   Death Valley National Park

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   Zabriskie Point

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   Badwater

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   Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes