The Travelling Celts

Chili cheese on toast

by Michael Cameron

Yosemite National Park is an American national park located in the western Sierra Nevada of Central California. The park is managed by the National Park Service and covers an area of over 1000 square miles. Designated a World Heritage site in 1984, Yosemite is internationally recognized for its granite cliffs, waterfalls, clear streams, giant sequoia groves, lakes, mountains, meadows, glaciers, and biological diversity. Almost 95% of the park is designated wilderness.

On average, about four million people visit Yosemite each year, and most spend the majority of their time in the seven square miles of Yosemite Valley, and we were no different.

We spent two full days in the park, taking a guided tour on one of the days, and going it alone on the other. We came across a deer and a black bear, thankfully no mountain lions. Why Yosemite? Denise's dad cross-stiched a picture of Yosemite falls, once Denise realised it actually existed, she just had to go.

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