Death Valley, as most people know, is the driest and hottest region of the United States. It is also one of the lowest regions in the world. In spite of this unattractive description, it does not deter almost a million tourists from visiting this region every year. The beauty of the Valley is its vastness, a seemingly endless landscape of mountains and canyons in a wide range of elevations, in shades of pink to red and tan to orange all framed most of the time by a clear blue sky.