Death Valley National Park
Visiting Death Valley National Park and discovering ghost towns.
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Death Valley
The “Death Valley” desert in eastern California is one of the driest and hottest places on Earth. When we visited at the end of October, it was about 35°C during the day. Badwater Basin is the lowest point in Death Valley, about 85m below sea level.
Furnace Creek
Death Valley even has an “oasis”, originally built to cater to miners and adapted for tourism in the 1930s. Parts of the mining equipment are on display in an open-air museum…
Ballarat
Apart from that, Death Valley also has sand dunes and ghost towns.
We visited one of them - Ballarat. It was more like a haunted house in daylight, though: not impressed.
Places
- 1Badwater Basin
- 2Furnace Creek
- 3Ballarat