The "South Rim" of the Grand Canyon is at an altitude of around 7000ft. or 2.1km above sea level. The air is quite thinner than what i am used to back home. Riding a bicycle uphill for example is twice as hard, or when you carry heavy bags, even for a short distance you feel the strain immediately.

   Today we went to the canyon early in the morning so we can catch the sunrise. After a mile or so we went off the "Rim Trail", through some loose earth and rocks, having only branches to hang on to and vertical drops on our other side, a while later we were on rock pointing into the canyon. The sunrise was gorgeous, we saw the first rays of morning light touch the jagged edges of the "North Rim", and engulf everything in warm light.

   After we got back i ordered a 500GB external hard drive with a CF card slot, so i can backup my pictures, because i had only 5 cards which were not going to last very long. It cost 149$, a lot of  money, and kind of a risk if i took into account the comments for the product, but that was the only one i could afford. It seems that i have brought more clothes than necessary, the washing machine was ready in 30 minutes and the tumble drier in an hour, so you don't have to wait days for your clothes to dry.

   I cleaned the bike, pumped up the tires and greased the chain, only one of the big sprockets was working, but it had to do. We rode the bikes through the forest with mule deers walking around us, it is incredible that these beautiful animals can be seen from so close. While Kiril was going through his shift at the store i bought two magazines- "Arizona Highways" and a collectors edition "Chevy magazine" which was commemorating 100 years of "Chevy", they made some incredible cars through the years. 

I went for a hike on my own in the afternoon in search of interesting spots for pictures, i ended up at "Yavapai Geological Museum", took a short break and with around 30 minutes left before sunset i headed towards a cliff i saw earlier. There were two terraces, the lower one was the one i was after, but getting there wasn't going to be easy, i looked around i  spotted a way down. I dropped my jacket and tripod before me and lowered myself down. The colors of the sunset were absolutely astonishing.

 

It was already dark before i decided that i was done with taking pictures, so i was going to use the flash of my cell phone to light my way home. After i got back i decided that i am going to take a well deserved bath, but before that i noticed something very disturbing, the pocket of my backpack where i keep my wallet was open...and my wallet wasn't there. Then the terrible thought of dropping my wallet somewhere in the dark on my way home dawned on me...No need to say that in my wallet was my passport, my to credit cards and around 200$ cash...and if i had lost it..i was done for. I was on my way to tell my friend Kiril the terrible news, when i saw that there was something underneath a newspaper on the table, and lord behold there it was! After that incident i never took my wallet outside of the apartment.