Wednesday, September 03, 2008

Family Visit (part 3)

This is a continuation from Family Visit (part 2)

We also heard a lot of stories about the Devils tower. The devils tower is a unique monument. It is also the first
National Monument declared by the US. "Devils Tower (Lakota: Mato Tipila, which means “Bear Tower”) is a monolithic igneous intrusion or volcanic neck located in the Black Hills near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County, northeastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River. It rises dramatically 386 m (1,267 ft) above the surrounding terrain and the summit is 1,558 m (5,112 ft) above sea level", wikipedia.


What interest me about the devils tower is that a lot of people climb it. Once I hit my ideal weight, I will join a climbing club here. Hopefully, I will find friends crazy enough to climb up Devils tower nie.:)



After all the adventures at the devils tower, we also went to Crazy Horse Memorial. Crazy horse is the Red Indian general who defeated General Custer. He was then killed in a treaty, stab in the back. Though, some records written by white historian claims he was accidentally stabbed.
Crazy Horse memorial will also be carved in a mountain like mount Rushmore, it has been 50 years now, and only the face part is done. Eventually, the mountain will depict the exact replica on the left.

Of course, we also had to visit the South Dakota Aviation Museum. Dad was happy here. He was excited to see the aircrafts that he had flown before and the kinds of aircraft he never had the chance to fly. We also learn a lot about the nuclear rockets that was installed during the cold war. We were given a tour of the missile silos and its history.

4 comments:

  1. wow, if me during Ramadhan I don't have the guts for sight seeing. Pillow and bed tell all :p.

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  2. Crazy Horse as part of Mt Rushmore? Cool! And the Devil Tower looks sooo Devilish. Hehehe

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  3. Ayoi: Crazy horse is located on a different hill of course. But they are close to each other. Apparently, the Native Americans wanted to let the white man know, that they had great heroes as well. And the 4 faces of mount Rushmore is only as big as Crazy Horses' head. Oh yeah, the devil's tower is cool. I will climb it one day.

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  4. mnajem: Hmmm, we did this before ramadhan. Though, even if it was ramadhan, think we will do the same.

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