First stop is at Hoover Dam before we visit the Hualapai Indian Reservation at the West-Rim Grand Canyon National Park.
It would be best traveling by a four-wheel car since the dirt road is so rough and rugged with the desert all around us, no facilities at all.
Along the road to the Reservation.
View from the West – Rim Grand Canyon. (no camera on the glass walkway)
The West-rim part is now a tourist spot for the new skywalk opened last month. So there is not many website providing enough information on this new place. We misunderstood that we could buy only the skywalk pass which was USD 25 per person. However, it turned out that we needed to buy a tour and then a walkway was an optional; total price for the cheapest tour was around USD 75 per person. A tour is for 2 places: Indian village and a Ranch including lunch and a shuttle bus.
“….to walk along a curved bridge with a glass-bottom walkway projecting 70 feet out over a section of the canyon with near vertical walls, and so look straight down to the Colorado River, nearly 4,000 feet below….”
The Village consists of dwellings depicting not only the Hualapai Tribe, but three other Arizona Tribes and tipis that represent many Plains Indian Tribes. The dwellings have been constructed authentically by representatives of each Nation.
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