Martin Ramsden's toured in California and mailed us these photos, showing this beautiful view of Yosemite National Park and barren Badwater in Death Valley.

See here for details of our tours to Yosemite and Death Valley.

Yosemite & Death Valley
Reaching Yosemite, we'll explore its rushing rivers and scented forests on foot.

Here we find the sheer granite slabs of El Capitan and Half Dome - nearly vertical and rising 1219m above the valley floor.

We'll see a forest sanctuary where giant Sequoias are preserved. Next we visit Bodie, a ghost town from the Gold Rush period, before driving south in the shadow of the Sierra Nevada.

Crossing the barren landscapes of Death Valley we head for the surreal and flamboyant city of Las Vegas.