Yellowstone National Park (August 2-7, 2008)

(Chinese version of this topic, 中文版)

This trip was fantastic, not just because of the stunning natural sceneries, but also because the whole trip was so well-planned, with every single detail taken care of by the senior students and their wives. And I must thank them at this point. Yosemite National Park was a well-known collection of beautiful natural sceneries. However, in my opinion, it's not as wonderful as Yellowstone, although it's said that the time I went to Yosemite was not the perfect season. I'm not saying Yosemite was not beautiful. It was, in fact. The blue sky, the green trees, the gray granite cliffs and the clear streams showed a colorful painting. Running squirrels and flying birds animated the painting. Nonetheless, such a painting could be seen at many other places, while a lot of the sceneries and the creatures at Yellowstone were unique as far as I had ever seen. I had surprises everyday at Yellowstone.

D1

• [Salt Lake City] Street sceneries
• [Salt Lake City] Salt Lake Temple
• Great Salt Lake

D2

• Elk antler arches
• Grand Teton National Park
• Old Faithful Geyser
• Midway Geyser Basin
• Night at West Yellowstone

D3

• Waterfall in the mountain
• Grasslands
• Bisons
• Mud Volcano Area
• Wild fire
• Yellowstone River
• Other sceneries
• Rodeo at Cody, WY

D4

• Sceneries on the way
• Uncle Tom's Trail and Lower Yellowstone Falls
• A bull elk
• Bleached Cliffs
• Rest by a restaurant
• Boiling River

D5

• North Entrance - Roosevelt Arch
• Mammoth Hot Spring Terraces
• Some deer bones by a stream
• The Norris Area
• 3 deers
• A lake scenery before sunset
• Cow elks

D6

• Leave Yellowstone
• Bingham Canyon Mine

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See also:

• Yosemite National Park (Mar. 23-27, 2008)
• Su's blog about this trip (Chinese)
• Xi's blog about this trip (Chinese)