Antelope Canyon and Page, Arizona

On the drive out to Arizona we stopped at Page to see some of the sights at the border of Arizona and Utah.

 The first stop was Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River. The dam is very tall and impressive.  It's in the perfect location for a dam where the river run between sheer sandstone canyon walls.

 After checking into our hotel at Page we had time for a small hike and the New Wave formations.  It's a very pretty hike among the rocks where waves cut contours and lines in the sandstone back in prehistoric days.

 We saw a lot of cool formations and had a fun little hike.  It was nice to get out after a long drive.

It wasn't quite dark yet and we had time to go out to Horseshoe Bend in the Colorado River.

 The views were spectacular.  The only problem was Jacquelyn kept worrying me by getting too close to the edge at places where there wasn't a railing.  And it was a long long way down, straight down.

 The next morning we had a tour scheduled for Antelope Canyon.  It's on the Navajo Nation Territorial lands and the tour was run by the Navajo.    They put on a show for people waiting for their tour times to start.  This Navajo is doing a hoop dance.

 It was Halloween Day and they were all dressed up.  This one was dressed like a dinosaur.  In the background you can see a large coal burning electricity plant.

Jacquelyn and I down in the canyon.  Antelope Canyon is a slot canyon.  The name in Navajo is Tse Bighanilili, which means "the place where water runs through rocks".  It was formed over the eons by water carving out the slot canyon in the limestone.

 It was like another world down there with all kinds of strange curves and lines in the rock walls.

 Strange views.  This one up towards the surface.

 It was incredibly beautiful.

 This is a different contrast setting on our camera.  Our Navajo guide was constantly adjusting cameras for his small tour group and pointing out interesting vantage points.

 After lunch we went for a small hike out to the hanging gardens.  This is a spot where the plants were literally growing up the sides of the rock.

And we saw our first roadrunner on the trip.