We were lucky to get the last tent for the following two nights. Next, we headed south to Wawona . We parked at the Wawona Information Station and took a shuttle bus to Mariposa Grove - to the Giant Sequoias. The sequoias at Mariposa Grove are considered the largest living things on earth, at least measured by volume. We saw the Fallen Monarch , the Grizzly Giant and the California Tunnel Tree .
Sequoias are very impressive trees.
Compared to them, other trees loke like dwarfs. There were signs that reminded the visitors that it is not allowed to take things like plants, rocks or pine cones from National Parks, but a lot of people picked up those huge cones nevertheless, thinking they were sequoia cones. But we looked up into the sequoias with binoculars and didn't see any of the large cones on the trees. We asked a ranger about that later, and she told us the cones of the sequoias are only the size of a hen's egg, while the huge cones belong to a sugar pine. Then we returned to Yosemite Valley to be in time for the film.