2017美西15日游-美西大峡谷、胡佛水坝

2017年5月美西十五天旅游实录（4）

美西大峡谷-胡佛水坝

本网记者 May 22, 2017

2017年5月22日上午我们去美西大峡谷

去大峡谷的路上在一个印第安人的牧场参观，牧场名字是“Hualpai Ranch". Hualapai means "people of the tall trees", is derived from hwa:l, the Hualapai word for ponderosa pine and pai "people". Their traditional territory is a 108-mile (174 km) stretch along the pine-clad southern side of the Grand Canyon and the Colorado River with the tribal capital at Peach Springs.

牧场已经无人居住，供人参观

到了美西大峡谷

美西大峡谷

Grand Canyon Resort Corporation is owned and operated by the Hualapai Tribe in Peach Springs, Arizona.

旅游项目包括乘直升飞机看大峡谷

导游Amy在售票处

售票办公室门口贴着中国春联

华人旅游社在此有专门办公室

Grand Canyon Resort Corporation is owned and operated by the Hualapai Tribe in Peach Springs, Arizona. The Hualapai Reservation, established in 1883, is located on one million acres of Hualapai ancestral lands, within the southern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the Grand Wash Cliffs escarpment. Hualapai, meaning "People of the Tall-Pines," had ancestral homelands consisting of approximately five million acres. The modern northern boundary of the reservation is along the Grand Canyon and the Colorado River.

在玻璃桥看峡谷

大峡谷边上的印第安人故居

大峡谷边上的零星印第安人生活展品

大峡谷边上的餐饮部

大峡谷边上的凉棚

大峡谷边上的零星印第安人生活展品

Hualapai印第安人之家。大峡谷的管辖权属于印第安人。

美西大峡谷的广告列出全部游览项目和旅馆

从大峡谷到胡佛水库的路上

到了胡佛水坝

Hoover Dam, originally known as Boulder Dam from 1933 to 1947, when it was officially renamed Hoover Dam by a joint resolution of Congress, is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Its construction was the result of a massive effort involving thousands of workers, and cost over one hundred lives. The dam was named after President Herbert Hoover. Since about 1900, the Black Canyon and nearby Boulder Canyon had been investigated for their potential to support a dam that would control floods, provide irrigation water and produce hydroelectric power. In 1928, Congress authorized the project. The winning bid to build the dam was submitted by a consortium called Six Companies, Inc., which began construction on the dam in early 1931. Such a large concrete structure had never been built before, and some of the techniques were unproven. The torrid summer weather and lack of facilities near the site also presented difficulties. Nevertheless, Six Companies turned over the dam to the federal government on March 1, 1936, more than two years ahead of schedule. Hoover Dam impounds Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States by volume (when it is full).[5] The dam is located near Boulder City, Nevada, a municipality originally constructed for workers on the construction project, about 30 mi (48 km) southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada. The dam's generators provide power for public and private utilities in Nevada, Arizona, and California. Hoover Dam is a major tourist attraction; nearly a million people tour the dam each year. The heavily traveled U.S. Route 93 (US 93) ran along the dam's crest until October 2010, when the Hoover Dam Bypass opened.