Havasupai

This past summer I went on one of the best vacations I've ever been on.  The place is called Havasupai.  It's an indian reservation located in the middle of the Grand Canyon.  My brother and seven other friends planned to go in August.  When it came time to go many of our told us they weren't going to be able to make it.  It definitely bummed us out they not that many people were going to go, but my brother and some other friends were determined to go.  I've always liked to finish what I start.

When we got there it was two in the morning, but when you get there you aren't quite on the reservation yet.  You have to hike in ten miles.  So that's what we did after driving almost twelve hours.  It was one of the most awful hikes, but when we got there with all of our packs and such it was a blast.  We would go hike to all of the different water falls, but my brother and friends and I would do it a little differently.  When we hiked, we would basically river hike down the river.  This was the best part of the whole trip.  We would come to certain rocks during the river hike and do some flips off of them and things.  If I can just give you a quick visual of what we looked like.  We had on our bucket hats, with our camel backs with some water shoes.  There were times when we would be fully submerged in the water with all of our clothing on during the river hike.

Before you would get to the place where you could pitch your tent, you had to pass the indian village.  As I observed them I don't think they liked living on that reservation.  They all seemed so depressed and by the way it seemed like I was in third world territory.  It was very dirty, no plumbing no nothing.  Although there were little houses that looked nice to live in, but it was definitely a village.  When I smile at someone I usually get a smile back, in fact I expect a smile back.  During my time in the village I would try to talk with people or just smile at them and I got nothing in return.  We didn't hang around the village all that much, we just played all day hiking in and out of water falls.