Flower power set to colour the desert

MARCH sees the start of Pink Jeep tours’ ‘Flower Power Trekker Tour’ into the 3.3 million acre Death Valley National Park, California.

Record rainfall this autumn and winter is expected to result in exceptional springtime blooms and to commemorate this anticipated wildflower bonanza Pink Jeep Tours is offering a special price of $209 for the Flower Power Trekker Tour.

The special price will be available from March 1 through to April 30.  Guests will be taken via The Tour Trekker, Pink Jeep Tours’ brand new first of its kind, high-end and spacious sightseeing vehicle.  The tour will include a picnic lunch.

The tour begins with a visit to Rhyolite, Nevada, home to rustic ruins of the past and then continues with entry into Death Valley National Park.

According to the National Park Service, there are more than 1,000 plant species including 13 species of cactus and 23 endemics (indigenous plants in Death Valley).  Desert annuals are the most visual with colours ranging from white and yellow to purple, blue, red and magenta.
The vast Death Valley desert is located some 135 miles from Las Vegas.

Pink Jeep also run tours to Eldorado Canyon, an old gold mining encampment an hour from Las Vegas. Visitors hear tales of the wild times and cut-throat activities of nineteenth century prospectors and are taken on an underground tour of the old mine shafts.

The site is much in-demand from movie crews and music video makers: Kevin Costner and Kirk Russell filmed there in 2000 during the making of 3,000 miles to Graceland and the site has also been used by rock band The Killers for video shoots.

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