Our Final Parks trip-- Prepare to be amazed.

Well after the disappointment of the photos from Zion Park, where they failed to show any kind of scale or magnificence of the place I was a little nervous of what yesterday would bring when we visited Antelope Canyon in Page , just into Arizona.

Bearing in mind that this had been a definite Philip want to visit and one that Lynda didn't know too much about, and when viewed as being the most expensive of all costs at $35 per person I was a little apprehensive ---- I shouldn't have been-----

Ok so I am teasing --- this is the Dam at Lake Powell --it is not the Hoover Dam but still pretty impressive and there are all sorts of major Marinas with an awful lot of boats on the lake.

So then we get to Page --cant book into the hotel , so we have a wander around , little bit of shopping , visitors centre and then go to the staging point for the Antelope Canyon Tours office, and when I paid the money and asked if we could wait for the half hour or so , we find out that we have gone back in time zones and it was over an hour and a half still to go.

But was it worth waiting for -- well you decide-----

  Aliens following us from Roswell

Only Lynda could wear sun glasses in a cave--she is cool or what

 

So what do you think---cool or what.

 

This place is wholly and solely run by the Navajo people and you don't get in without an Indian Guide and ours Debora was great and even better with the sorting out peoples IPads or camera's.

 

So what do we think about all the parks and things we have seen -- well firstly, clearly they are all different.

However , this one was so close and interactive ---you were allowed to touch the walls which we were not in the Colossal Caves and the fact that last Tuesday there was water through these canyons that went up about 12 feet is amazing-- and it tells that no-one could live in there.

 

Good to see the Navajo getting good income as well--- I reckon there would be around $500+ per vehicle, per trip --and ours there were 7 vehicles and they do this 5 times a day and this is only one tour company---lots of money but subject to climate change impacting.

 

So there you go--we head off today to Flagstaff before we arrive at Sedona for labour day weekend, and back to the Irish bar for lunchtime and the Super Cup match between Bayan Munich and Chelsea---come on you Blues

 

There are many photos of this trip on our Full Profile