I planned to make a road trip in US for quite a while, after a lot of information gathering, my travel teammates decided to go to Rocky Mountains and one of our prime destinations was Yellowstone National Park. After many breathtaking views along the way from Utah, like Logan Pass, Bear Lake and Grand Teton National Park, we finally reached Yellowstone almost twilight. The first place we decided to stop was the Duck Lake to enjoy the view of last sunlight on the lake surface, and then we continued to the historic Old Faithful Inn which we booked for three nights. The inn's seven stories lobby was an incredible sight with sophisticating design of countless wooden beams. The next day we saw the famous Old Faithful geyser. The geyser was definitely one of the highlights for me, sadly that my friends already went to Iceland and New Zealand and saw the more impressive one and found Old Faithful quite tamed, not surprised that the comparison with Iceland or New Zealand had always happened in this trip!

Then we saw many hot spring pools and numerous small geysers, many pools had beautiful colors made by bacteria, so it was a brilliant day for photo; the granddaddy of all pools was the Grand Prismatic Pool, this large one had many beautiful colors almost like rainbow, and its bacteria cascades was very interesting to see. The next day we visited the northern part of the park, along the way we encounter a lot of bison, elks, and a fox also many birds. We drove until we entered into Montana to see the Roosevelt Arch which was the main entrance to Yellowstone. Mammoth Hot Spring was our today target as it was looked stunning in the poster; however, we discovered that most of the hot springs was already dried, its empty cascade pools were grayish and dusty, we questioned the poster we saw and found out that the poster we saw was taken in the early 80! Fortunately, Mammoth still had a small area that the springs were still run, despite its small size; the cascade was stunning with its cream colors and hundreds of small blue pools. My friend said the name Mammoth was really suited to the place as the place already extinct.

Our last day we went to the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone, I was really surprised with the stunning landscape of the canyon especially at the Artist Point, the view of the Lower Fall and the colorful tones of red and yellow in the canyon was truly breathtaking and unbelievable site. We went to every viewpoint but nowhere made me wow like Artist Point. The last place we visited was the large Yellowstone Lake where we had late lunch before continued our trip to Idaho. The vastness of unspoiled landscape in Yellowstone was a great place to visit; the natural phenomenon was beyond imaginable and really showed the greatness of Mother Nature and American World Heritage Site. Actually, in my opinion the whole stunning Rocky Mountains can easily be listed as World Heritage Site if only Americans want.