Palm Springs

We left Joshua Tree in the morning end headed east towards Palm Springs. Just before arriving in Palm Springs we were surprised to see a huge wind farm - hundreds of wind mills were lined up there. I didn't know that America has its green spots ;-)
We went on a short stroll through the centre of the city of Palm Springs, which was a party town for the Hollywood stars back in the 1950's. Some of the old houses and fancy architectures back then are still there. We then boarded the world's largest rotating tram car - the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway, which took us up from 800m to 2500m in about 13min. We went from the middle of the desert to this alpine forest ontop of this mountain - yes, alpine forest. The temperature dropped by about 15C on our way up. We walked through the forest, watched the sunset and enjoyed a lovely meal :-)

We spend the night camping again in the Whitewater Nature Reserve. This was a old trout farm which has been converted into a nature reserve for people to have picnics or to camp the night in the canyon.