Wind Cave National Park
July 4th is popular as
the Independence Day of US. We celebrated it at the perfect place to be-Mt.
Rushmore. Started next day of our South Dakota trip from the Wind cave National
Park-a windy place where cave breathes literally. It’s a hidden world down our
feet. One of the longest and most complex caves in the world. It homes a unique
boxwork, rarely found elsewhere. It is also a sacred place for many tribes and
gained tourist attraction in 188. People started making money out of it by just
giving tours of it, pretty cool right. Later President Theodore Roosevelt declared
it a National Park.
Custer State Park
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| Needle's Eye-Toughest Drive but cool |
Our Next spot was Custer Park
which homes Bison’s, elk, deer goats and of course lots of prairie dogs. They
also home a special animal-Donkey also known as Begging Burros as they approach
various passing cars through the park begging for food. Even we stopped for
them and took few pics. In short this park is famous for wildlife viewing,
scenic drives and fishing. Next we visited Rushmore and to reach there we had
lots of routes, but we were running out of gas, so all of us were trying to get
the most optimal route. We found that we should complete the wildlife loop road
and take the exit, but exit wasn’t clearly written on the map, just the route
was there. All of us followed the road, since it wasn’t a properly built road
and no cars were passing us, I was skeptical to follow such routes because of
bad experiences, so we thought of asking few people on the way and believe me
no one, not even a single soul knew perfect answer. We followed our gut and
continued the journey, anyways we didn’t had gas to return too.
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| Mt. Rushmore |
Mt. Rushmore and Crazy Horse
Somehow we got out and reach
Rushmore, just remembered-one of my friend says “Rush bahot ho gaya ab to rush
less jina hai”. True saying. So we thought that Rushmore should be the best
place to celebrate July 4th, unfortunately it was quite opposite. At
least the last night show that we saw was supposed to b way better. That’s fine,
next we hopped on to best laser show in town and yes you are correct- we
visited Crazy Horse, even with a distance, it was too good.
We were tired now and had no
other option but to return to our hotel.
