Death Valley NP

Death Valley is a landscape that you can only call unusual to say the least.  Barren, sand, salt and rock.  Did see a turtle and a coyote.  So there is some life there.

The white is not snow or sand but salt!

Salt pools at Badwater Basin.

The lowest point in the US.  232 feet below sea level.  The area looks like a large snow lake but this  is salt from the old sea bed of eons ago.

Just so you will know.....It does rain in Death Valley...about twice a year.  We were 'lucky' enough to see one of those rains....followed by a dust storm that coated your car making mud!

I don't know why the astronauts went to Germany to train for the lunar landing when the landscape in Death Valley looks like the surface of the moon.

This is a typical road in the Death Valley area  50 miles straight ahead!!