Las Vegas 2005: Palm Springs

After a nearly sleepless night in the otherwise lovely Pepper Tree Inn we were transferred to another room with better design, and happily stayed a second night.
During the day, we toured Palm Springs and the surrounding area; we first visited the Living Desert Zoo & Gardens, which was interesting but had some rather sad animals in disappointingly small cages. Nevertheless, the Zebra seemed happy, and Margaret enjoyed brushing goats in the petting zoo section:

In the early evening we headed over to Palm Canyon Oasis – the palm trees are amazing in their “wild” state where they appear to keep their old leaves; there was not much water visible at the oasis – but obviously enough to grow many palm trees!