Badlands

The road from Sioux Falls to the Badlands crosses the territory of Laura Ingalls from the Little House in the Prairie as well as the filming grounds of Dances with the Wolves. The highway is pink from the colour of the rocks in that region. At one point highway 90 that runs from east to west of South Dakota in an almost perfectly straight line (our chevy was flying at speeds over 120 km/h) disappears in a small valley created by the beautiful Missouri river. The landscape suddenly changes from a perfectly flat prairie to hilly grasslands with no tree in sight. Phenomenal.

After having set up our tent in a camping ground 3 miles from the Badlands National Park entrance and after Kate had realized she had forgotten her sneakers in Sioux Falls, we headed out to the mysterious Badlands.

Those of you who have read the adventures of Tintin, the famous Belgium reporter and have seen dances with the wolves will be able to somewhat imagine the scenery that appeared in front of us. Take a typical landscape from the movie and combine it with the comic’s moon landscape and you will see something close to what lies out there.