After hanging out few days in the City of San Francisco, time to visit a different side of California, Yosemite is among the most beautiful and a MUST visit national Park in California. From San Fran we rented a car, This time we rented a Toyota, corolla with remote, after the Arizona fiasco we felt it's safer that way. The car rental offered to upgrade our car to Ford Mustang for just additional $15. Rented that before very stylish but it's quite fuel consuming, so we passed. It is a 4 hours drive to the Yosemite from San Fran.
We stared off early by the time we reached i was already afternoon,
along the highway. does look like the picture of window XP...hehe
picture took with my mobile phone
scene along the way before we reach the Yosemite Village/ Valley visitor center
this was in mid November,
looking down to Merced river
tunnel, hold your breath!
slowly we are approaching the village
stopping over to see Bridal Veil
there are plenty of trail to enjoy, too bad we didn't have much time. Maybe next time
Bridal veil
too bad the waterfall was really really limited but it's still really beautiful
some people just don't know how to enjoy nature :P
some fallen big tree
back to the car
sometimes there are bears....
couldn't resist the amazing scenery
autumn wonderland
everything is huge here, look even the maple leaves are bigger than my face
this is the one and only store at the village, bought a nice cup here :)
currently boon is collecting cups from all the national park. So far he had only one :D hahaha
few minutes walk from the village store is the Visitor Center
we were abit lost at time. There seem to be no way in to the visitor center with the car. We had to parked our car back again at the village store and walked there
as usual they are very informative
getting to know Yosemite
I bet people working in visitor center are happy people, with this kind of view who wouldn't?
this is "Big Tree", Sequoiadendron giganteum, according to the small description on top of my head,
this 9ft section of a giant sequoia was cut 30ft from the base of a tree that fell in the Mariposa Grove in 1919. Annual rings show the tree's to be 996 years old, however the base of the tree, where the diameter was 14ft, the age was found to be 1100years!
AMAZING!!!
back to the village loop trail
soaking up this World Heritage site's natural beauty
boon and Half moon dome
El Capitan
another dried up waterfall
love this shot...so peaceful
most beautiful things are often free
like this magical place... well it's not actually free. Still need to pay $25 entrance fee/ car
but the annual national park pass can be use here too!
Merced River
this are the marking of the water level when it was flooded, the most recent one are in 1997 and it's also the worst flood in park history to date
now you see me
now you don't
one of my favorite pic
time to go check in to our lodge, it was November so it gets dark pretty fast
short stop
this is one of the most famous site in Yosemite, where we see in the Internet,
it was getting dark but at least we manage to take a nice picture
luckily we were fast, 1 minute later the place was flooded with a bus load of tourist, not so peaceful anymore.
we then drove about an hour plus to our lodge which was at the other end of Yosemite, nearer to Wawona. The road was winding and have to look out for wild animals. The lodge that we rented was cheap and surprising nice, i think it's called White chief mountain lodge, but there was no restaurant nearby so settle for some crackers and nutrient bars as dinner. So tired after driving the whole day. slept like a baby that night
Our adventure to be continues....
~ adios ~
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