Friday, December 30, 2005

Anza Borrego Dessert, Salton Sea and Palm Springs

Anza-Borrego Dessert; east side of San Diego
After my hanging around San Diego within whole tuesday, I couldn't stand it any more and decided to go out. Two of my friends were chased by this plan successfully and we began a short but long day trip.
Our tour started from Anza-Borrego Dessert. The spanish term Anza-Borrego means goat since there have been goats living on this dessert mountains. Guess what we did on this dessert? We cooked (Shin) Ramen at there. Wierd?! No, you can't immagine how it's delicious!

Salton Sea; east side of Anza-Borrego Dessert
There is the biggest lake of California right next to the Dessert. The scene of this giant lake is beautiful and fascinating but you couldn't imagine this; smelly everywhere. It seems like there's nowhere outgoing water from the lake but lots of incoming to it. Don't stay at one place to much. It must become smelly, later.





Salton City; one of cities by the Salton Sea
There're couple of small towns along with the Salton Sea. Salton City is one of them. Not like the name, it was just a small town.
We were suprise when we came to a grocery store over there. The owner of the store is Korean. I felt Korean living will is strong, again. ^^





Sunset scene near Salton Sea
This beautiful clouds were caught accidently. The nature is wonderful even when you're in dessert.










Palm Springs
Our final destination was Palm Springs; A spring on dessert.
We've had giant burgers as dinner with beer (buds; they don't have microbrewary) and walked a little. Downtown streets were beautiful and crowded since it's holiday season.







Cute Palm Springs downtown.








Temecula
As usual, we've stopped by Temucula by nature's calling and I found a cute restaurant over there. This must be stopping point, next time. ^^