Lake Tahoe to Salt Lake City

I was defintely sad to leave Lake Tahoe. I will definately be back for a visit.

We had a VERY LONG day driving ahead of us, just over 9 hours driving. The drive leaving Lake Tahoe was lovely, ito scenary, but soon after the landscape became monotonous.

Landscape between Nevada and Utah

What was interesting is that we drove through 3 States, leaving Lake Tahoe in California, entering Nevada and then into Utah to get to Salt Lake City.

Salt Lake City was nothing to what I excpeted it to be. I'm not actually sure what I expected, this being the HQ of the Mormon Community.

About 100 miles from SLC, you start seeing this massive salt pan, which is actually part of the Great Salt Lake. The Great Salt lake is the largest lake in North America and is 1000 sq miles (2590 km). You can see salt mills closer to the city.

View of Salt Pans from the road

The Great Salt Lake just before SLC

Utah and SLC is renowned for it's great skiing. The 2000 winter Olympics were held here.

The first Mormons came to SLC in 1847, tyring to find refuge from persecusion in places like Illinois. Today Utah is 80% Mormon, and mostly a dry state, i.e No Alcohol. However, SLC was very viby and very big. I noticed allot of young people, and young families. They have this amazing mall, which again has every brand name under the sun. There were artists drawing on the main walkway, and they also have music in the square on certain evenings.

We had a great meal at a fish place in the square and just loved the warm evening temps and seeing everyone out on a Friday night.

I found this amazing bargain on priceline.com, for the Sheraton in the city centre, for only $80, where the normal fee actually goes for $200.

View from our hotel room, you can see the snow capped mountain in the distance