Just 20 miles from our motel and we were entering the Navajo run Monument Valley park.The drive to the park reveals something of whats to come but its not until you park the car at the visitors center and hotel that you see the half dozen iconic sandstone rock towering into the sky.
You are able to get a pretty good look at the icons but to venture further into the park you need to take a 4x4 open back seat ute at $75 a person for a 2. 5 hour guided tour. We discovered that we had seen many of the tour features at other parks we had visited.We were happy to take our pics from the vantage points but also ventured about a mile along the rutted dirt and boulder track to get a few closer shots.
After and hour it was all done, you don't get to drive along a straight road with icon after icon....its not quite what the movies I have seen suggest,but I wouldn't have missed it.....it is quite spectacular
A big surprise came latter in the day. We drove onto an Indian Reservation to get fuel and then found ourselves having Navajo Burgers at an Indian food stall....a was good lunch too.
Sandie was trying to get us to our next scheduled point of interest Zion and Bryce National parks, she said ' I've found a short cut" and just as well she did.
By one o'clock we had found a wonderful town by the name PAGE, by 1.30pm she had us booked on a 1.5 hour tour of some amazing canyons sculptured by water running down the river in winter at 85 miles per hour. Over ten of thousands of years these incredible have been carved. The guide tells his story of the rock shapes as you walk about 150 meters through the canyon.
After all that we found somewhere to sleep the night before taking off to explore the near by hydro dam on the Colorado river and the large lake that the dam wall creates
After all that it was time for a rest before dinner.
Bryce Canyon and Zion National Park! Absolutely the places to be. Sounds like you may have seen Antelope Canyon there by the description of coloured caves. These are legendary among photographers who go all-out to capture the shafts of light penetrating underground and illuminating the walls for a short time. I'd kill to be there! :-)
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