I started my trip in Las Vegas, but my initial plan was to visit my 6th wonder of the world: Chichén Itzá, in Mexico.
That’s when I realized something interesting. The Air Canada ticket had a connection in Toronto and, with a little more money, I could make one of my dreams come true: traveling by dog sled.
I’ve been following the Iditarod race in Alaska for years and always wondered what that experience would be like. When I was there, it wasn’t winter, so I didn’t have the chance to try it.
Another famous place for this is Yukon, in Canada.
The main entry point is Whitehorse. And then a dilemma arose: my entry point was Toronto, but Whitehorse was on the other side, above Vancouver.
Since I usually never return the same way, I realized that I could fit in a quick stop in Las Vegas and, in addition, cross another item off my list: visiting the Grand Canyon.
See dog sledding and Cancun and Chichen Itza.
Las Vegas
Whenever Las Vegas is talked about, everyone thinks of games and in fact everything here revolves around it.
But the city is typical of the American psyche.
Normal people, with their normal lives, go to Vegas to get crazy and do everything that you can’t do in your everyday life.
What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.
It has everything, people who spend day and night inside the casinos, gambling, and drinking.
Parties watered down with drinks, drugs, and general liberation.
There are pool parties, from the most ‘public’ to the most reserved.
Vegas can be anything you want it to be, as long as you have the money to pay.
As I don’t like gambling or drugs, I went to enjoy the more “normal” side of the city, which is where all the main points of the city are located on the Vegas strip.
They made replicas of the main replicas of world’s monuments.
Everything in Vegas is ready for you to enter and never leave, the Shop forum even has a view of the sky inside the Shop.
In Vegas Downtown, the main street is completely covered, so you can go from one place to another without really leaving the attractions.
As I was Downtown, I couldn’t miss visiting Rick’s Store from the Paws Stars program.
Grand Canyon
I was there in February and the northern part of the park is closed due to winter.
But the southern part (South RIM) was open, it is 450 km from the city.
Las Vegas is in the state of Nevada and the Grand Canyon National Park is located in Arizona and encompasses 446 km of the Colorado River and adjacent highlands.
The Grand Canyon is 1.6 km deep and up to 29 km wide.
Bands of colorful rocks reveal millions of years of geological history.
We left at 6:00 am and returned around 9:00 pm.
Now it’s time to go dog sledding in Whitehorse.