The name of the National Park speaks for itself: the harsh, hot and desert-like hell seems the fruit inflamed imagination; lifeless, austere and intimidating place, descended from the pages of the Old Testament. Yet this place beckons travelers during their voyage across America better than the angelic singing of the Sirens Odysseus. What for? To find one of the wonders of nature, geological end of the world, the desert of death.

Death Valley National Park - the largest in the continental United States, covers the difficult area: more than 5000 square miles, including the valleys and mountains in the north. This natural playground can be found singing sand dunes, mosaic marble canyons, suddenly appearing out of nowhere in the middle block of stone sun-scorched desert, extinct volcanic craters, palm oases and many rare species of flora and fauna that are found nowhere else in the world.
The valley stretches about 140 miles from north to south and 10-20 miles wide, in the west bordering with chain Panamint, and in the east - the backbone of Amargosa. Rock formations that can be seen today in the National Park, was created about 500 million years ago. These unique sculptures can be seen today, and feel only here the rest of similar age and structure of boulders scattered on the planet, have long gone underground. Limestone and sandstone were once the basis of the seabed is due to plate motion of the Earth-old woman did not come to the surface.
Another attraction of the Valley of Death - Indian tribe Timbisha (Timbisha, «stone paint\"), who moved here about a thousand years ago. Several families of this tribe still live in the valley in the neighborhood Furniss Creek (Furnace Creek). In the canyon Grapevine (Grapevine Canyon), close to the castle Scotty survived another Indian village, Maahunu, which now no one lives..