I was told no information other than to meet my guide out the front of my Airbnb at 4.30am. I set my alarm for only moments before, which saw me rushing down the stairs still pulling my tshirt over my head at 4.30m exactly. The door was locked from the inside with a key I didn't have, and I heard nothing but the whizzing and chirping of tropical, nocturnal insects and the loud snores of my host's father, drowning out soccer still blaring on the antennaed television.
Read MoreZion National Park, Utah, USA
In April of 2017 I spent two weeks in a campervan working and travelling across the deserts of Utah and Arizona in the USA. I was inspired by my mum's memories of her roadtrip around the area in the late 1970s, and wanted to see - and explore - the landscape for myself. My first stop was Zion National Park, Utah, and it was beautiful and humbling and vast beyond expectation.
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