Wyoming: Yellowstone National Park

Both Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Park are awe-inspiring. It's more obvious at Grand Teton-- the precipitous peaks are omnipresent, wherever you are in the park. If they are not right in front you, turn around and they are there to stun you. The awe-inspiringness of Yellowstone lies secretively underneath the ground. You don't feel it until you know how the beautiful and deadly hot springs/geysers are developed, how bacteria living in them have impacted our lives and what might happen to Yellowstone in millions of years.

Water is the designer at Yellowstone. Steam creates a fairytale and mythical setting, running and still water carries rainbow of colors and develops artistic textures into the mud.

Here is the album for Yellowstone part of our trip:
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