Our next stop during this busy month of July was at 
During our first day, the three of us took a bus ride away from
The idea behind its construction was, apparently, rather simple: build a huge dam in the middle of the desert by benefiting from the flow of the Colorado River through a suitable gorge known today as Black Canyon, on the border of the States of Arizona and Nevada.
The goal was to make the desert bloom. The outcome was the largest man made lake in the
Still, the desert continued to look pretty much like a desert before my eyes: hot, dry, arid and capable of making you wonder if the guy that’s going water-skiing a few meters above the dam is nothing but a heat-induced hallucination…
If you want to, you can look at other pictures from our trip here.
