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Our Drive to Las Vegas through Death Valley


After cutting our stay short, we started a 9 hour drive across to Las Vegas. We decided it would be interesting to take in Death Valley along the way. We ended up driving south along Highway 91 and then east from Bakersfield. We took a great little valley road across to Highway 395 which twisted and turned and went past Lake Isabella. Highway 395 was your typical American road - long and straight! Although it did have the redeeming feature of having a speed limit of 75 mph. 

The landscape as we headed north started to become more and more desolate, you could tell that we were heading into an extremely dry and arid place. After Highway 395 we headed east along Route 190 which runs through Death Valley and it is rather a great drive over a few hours. It has some stunning views and changing rock formations which really make the drive more memorable. 

Death Valley is an hour or so from Las Vegas so this is where we have ended our days drive. It wasn't as manic as I thought it could have been to drive into, but it's good to know we had a car parking space in a hotel along the strip to end up in. The only way I can describe Las Vegas is that it's like an adult's Disney World. We looked around all the usual hotels and casinos. It's not the first time we will be staying here, so we decided to leave the roulette tables until our second visit.

We will be driving from Las Vegas to the Grand Canyon next which will also take in the Hoover Dam and a long stretch of Route 66! I can't wait to drive along it!
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