10/31/2008: Day 08 - trip to Page to Antelope Canyon
Today the R-66 times deserves a break. We drive on the Hwy 89 North out of Flagstaff we stop after a few miles at the Sunset Vulcano. This is a 600 years ago last been active volcano. The tour we save us but because you can walk around only in the low-lying lava field. The crater itself is unfortunately not accessible for security reasons. So back up onto the highway, and after 2-hour drive through the Navajo Nation (Indian reservation), and always along the Echo Cliffs (a mountain range of red sandstone), we reach the 1957 in the wake Glen of the dam construction, the city of Page. Once in the Antelope Canyon, we can immediately go with the next visitor tour. A true off-road adventure. The 3.5-mile access road to the entrance of the Upper Canyon on the dirt road is not for the faint of heart. But the canyon is safe to commit. The play of color photographs are beautiful, not very easy. A tripod would be an advantage, but with the oppressed against the wall and thus stabilized camera it works quite well. The best time would be for June and July, because as the sun is directly above the canyon.
go after an hour we returned to the off-road truck. A few hundred meters away there is still the Lower Canyon. Although it is not as powerful as its namesake, but somehow almost more interesting.
The entrance is hard to find, only a narrow gap in the rock, just goes in that one. How to make the fat people I'm not quite clear. But who creates the entry, which can at least get stuck in the middle not in it. In this canyon but the light reaching the ground, the easier taking pictures and the number of subjects is endless. After an hour we managed to only about 400 meters long canyon, and we go outside again to the starting point. To strengthen
we stop at a Chinese restaurant and then we drive to the Glen Dam, which dammed the Colorado River, and take take another look at the port of Lake Powell (Lake) before we begin the return journey back to Flagstaff. The setting sun makes the Echo Cliff Mountains in a more intense red appear to be on the way there. In Flagstaff we decide to return to the Super 8 Motel, since we already know at least what works and what does not. After the reference room, I regret to find, internet does not work is probably because today is Halloween. But this is not our thing anyway, since we recover better from today's tour.
always flying to the yellow, then to get to the destination.
Only by the red mountains .....
.... and you're in the Antelope Canyon.
goes on a desert road, he has a "wild" ride the canyon.
Here is my shadow the entry shows in the Lower Canyon. Nix for fat people. Whoever does not hein who can least not stuck inside.