Grand Canyon Sky Walk
Who has never heard of the Grand Canyon ..? Not only beautiful, canyons and gorges in this place who was said to be native place of this American continent now has a new vehicle coming in the form of Skywalk. From the unique architecture of this bridge you can see proof of the greatness of God who created the world with all its uniqueness.
Grand Canyon is 3.5 hours (193 kilometers) from the city of Las Vegas into the gambling County.Perjalanannya Canyon itself is boring because the apparent path around the fields was barren, but when he had met unpaved roads that are bumpy dibiarakan full of holes, then all eyes are sleepy because your body is refreshed terhentak left-kekanan even occasionally burst into the top, through the uneven dirt road.
The road was not long broken only about 30 minutes drive (not paved deliberately driving sensation that is more memorable to the Canyon) after passing through the pavement looked back and you are struggling to maintain himself not to tilt to the left or right, so start looking from the Canyon distance.
Grand Canyon is a canyon cliff-steep, carved by the Colorado River, in northern Arizona.
This gulf is one of the Seven Wonders of the World and mostly located in the Grand Canyon National Park; one of the first national parks in the United States. President Theodore Roosevelt is one of the main supporters of the Grand Canyon area, visiting on several occasions to hunt mountain lion and enjoy the scenery incredible.
This gap, created by the Colorado River cutting a channel over millions of years, the length of approximately 446 km, with width ranging from 6 to 29 km and a depth of more than 1600 m. Nearly 2000 million years of Earth history has been interrupted by the Colorado River and tributaries sediment layer by layer as the Colorado Plateau began to rise.
Grand Canyon was first seen by Europeans in 1540, García López de Cárdenas from first to scientific Spanyol.Ekspedisi canyon was led by U.S. Major John Wesley Powell in the late 1870s. Powell pointed to the sedimentary rocks exposed in the gap as “leaves in a great story book”. However, long before that time, this area has been inhabited by Native Americans who built a residence in the walls of this ravine.
Phenomenal Skywalk
Potential Scientis, history and natural beauty combined with amazing make the Grand Canyon became one of the most popular tourist destinations in America. And recently in tourism loksai has built a kind of look out (where the scene) or more precisely called the Skywalk skywalk.Kehadiran this phenomenal architecture that attract many people so declared to be one of the new architectural wonders of the world.
U-shaped building is made of thick transparent glass and is located on the lip of the Grand Canyon at a height of about 1.6 kilometers from the ground. Imagine you witness beautiful scenery Grand Canyon from the bridge a half circle made of transparent glass so that the body seemed to float in the air with a view down a deep ravine ordinary feet.Luar .. 4000!
Skywalk is located on the Hualapai Indian Reservation, an area of Native American shelters. At pembukaanya some time ago, Apollo 11 astronaut Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Hualapai Tribe leader became the first person who tried to walk on the Skywalk in the ceremony.
Skywalk reveal architectural team, this structure can support the weight of several hundred people constantly and not be affected by the brunt of the wind that often blows hard in the Grand Canyon.Dengan weighing about 500 tons, glass-floored Skywalk is built 10 inches thick and supported by thick steel.
In addition to stand up strong winds typical of the canyon area, retaining the shock (shock absorber) giant also paired to prevent these structures fell down due to heavy burden of the visitors on top.
Perampungan project took over two years. This project is one example of how Native American tribes or the so-called Indian generate revenue through the tourism sector.
Skywalk Development was initiated by Shangai-born U.S. businessman, Davin Jin. Investors interested in this project and are willing to invest for $ 30 million. Based on the agreement with the Hualapai Tribe, the investor would take half the ticket sales profits up 25 years into the future.
The visitors who want to walk on Skywalk charged a fee of $ 25 (around Rp230 thousand) to gain admission to the Skywalk. It often happens that some people had already bought a ticket to cancel his intention to walk on the thick sheet of glass for fear of the spacecraft’s altitude.
If it were so, how could the money be returned. However, if the ticket prices ranged dirupiahkan rupiah Rp230.000. Alas, unfortunately not the money ..?