Experience the shock of time and sand at Grand Canyon South Rim!
Get up early in the morning and prepare to take the red line and the blue line bus of the Hermit Road together and go through it. Several important attractions have their own characteristics:
Desert View: There is a souvenir shop in the Desert View Watch Tower;
Lipan Point: You can see a long colorado river, which is also a famous sunset view point;
Grand View Point: You can see the panoramic view of the Grand Canyon and enjoy the details of the Grand Canyon.
Grand Canyon Visitor Center: the conversion terminal for all shuttle buses;
Yaki Point: Sunset view point, you need to take the yellow line bus, you can't reach by car;
Yavapai Point: A Geographical Science Museum with a description of the Grand Canyon!
Hopi Point: Indian-style souvenir shop, the largest souvenir shop on the southern edge of the Grand Canyon. Take the blue line to the red line bus, you can't reach by car.
Desolate Grand Canyon
The earth is constantly undulating, torn, cut,
The pride and the atmosphere that rushed to the surface were extended at the foot...
It brings an indescribable shock. The so-called human history and the passage of time seem to be attributed to a dust in front of this gap.
Here, every passenger is a photographer;
Every picture is a landscape!
Every undisputed moment, unyielding mood, and unsuccessful brows are all gone in this vast expanse...
In the process of being eroded by the Colorado River, the harder rock formations in the plateau formed a bulge in the valley between the valleys, becoming a “table-like highland”, and the mountain-building movement forced the rise of the highlands!
The soft stone, after millions of years of rushing the Colorado River, formed today's world-famous Grand Canyon.
From the bottom to the top, there are rock formations from Cambrian to Cenozoic in different periods, with clear layers and different tones, and contain representative biological fossils of various geological ages. Therefore, the Grand Canyon is also known as the "living geological history textbook".
The climate and landscape of the two walls and valleys of the canyon are very different. The south wall is dry and warm, and the plants are scarce. The north wall is higher than the south wall, and the climate is cold and wet, and the trees are green;
The valley is dry and hot, showing a desert landscape with flat top and steep sides.
The sea of sangtian, the battle of the stars moved, time in the Grand Canyon carved a long-lasting confession!
In it, it’s spectacular
锈红色的岩石，奔腾谷底的河流，山顶盘旋哑叫的乌鸦，都在诉说着无言的故事……
以个人之渺小体验自然之大美，我们只能顺服于天地，更加敬畏于自然！
Living in the national park, except that the night road is not very open, the speed limit is 25, the other is really convenient!
The restaurant hot water is available 24hr, Nachos grande is not expensive! This big one is not finished.
As for the price of sitting on the ground, it is even more impossible, even cheaper than the price of a nearby town! No wonder the booking is hot, especially the Yellowstone Park has been fully booked six months in advance!
The most famous two sightseeing routes in the Grand Canyon, except for the Hermit Road, the other is Desert View Drive.
The Desert View Road stretches from the Grand Canyon Village to the Desert View Watchtower along the edge of the canyon for a total length of 40 kilometers.
Along the way, there are spectacular canyon scenery, picnic area, Tusayayan Relics Museum, Observation Tower, etc. The more you go east, the more you see the landscape!
Layers are stacked, like the curve pattern of the 10,000-volume poetry book, the edge of the mountain rises and falls, the valley extends... There are thousands of turns of the secluded winding path, and the two cliffs stand in the thousand miles, sandwiching the blue sky!
Go to the end of Desert View Drive and turn north. Drive more than 170 kilometers to our next destination: Peggy Page!
Page near the Utah line may show Utah time instead of mountain time, especially in summer time, Google Map time on the way to the Page of the Grand Canyon is one hour less than an hour, almost not stunned by it... If you have made an appointment Be sure to pay attention to the visit time of Antelope Valley!
Peggy Page, a small town that is backed by mountains and thrives on water tourism, is a small town!
There are still many towns in the West like this that are prosperous because of tourism, Kingman, Tusayan, Moab...
However, this small town hidden in northern Arizona is small, but there are three top works of Antelope Valley, Horseshoe Bay and Lake Powell.
It is monotonous, and it looks like a piece of orange soil in the past;
It is deserted, and the resident population of the town is only 10,000;
It is quiet, like the unpredictable Powell Lake...
But it is the most direct hit of the crowds, like the Antelope Canyon, Horseshoe Bay and Lake Powell here!
They don’t put a word, they don’t move, but they can compete with the years, bringing endless shock...
If the beauty of the Grand Canyon is like the northern iron ridge, then the Antelope Canyon in Antelope Canyon is like a Jiangnan woman, more feminine and gentle!
The deep canyons, the undulating lines, and the fascinating color blocks together form the Antelope Canyon, the world's top ten geological wonders!
It is deep and the distance is not long. It is deeply cut into the ground along the mountain. The rocks in the valley are washed by the flash floods like a dream world.
Antelope Canyon, also known as the Antelope Canyon, is one of the world's most famous slit-shaped canyons and belongs to the Navajo Aboriginal Protected Area.
On the terrain, the Antelope Valley can be divided into two separate parts: the Upper Antelope Canyon and the Lower Antelope Canyon.
According to the Navajo history, it used to be a prongal perch. The gorge often has an antelope stroll. It is said that the first to find the Antelope Valley is an Indian grazing child. The older Navajos regarded this place as Jingsi and Daling Communication
The Upper Antelope Valley is all located on the ground. In the Navajo language, it is called Tse bighanilini, which means “rock with water passing through it”. The area inside the canyon is wide. The midday sun is briefly injected into the bottom of the valley, forming a famous light column, which makes tourists feel like it is also It is because of this short beam of light that makes the Upper Antelope Valley more famous.
However, the color change in the Lower Antelope Valley is more abundant than that of the Upper Antelope Valley. The light is more abundant, and there are fewer people to visit. The effect of the shooting is quite good. The photo of the Antelope Valley of Microsoft Windows Screensaver is also taken from the Lower Antelope Valley!
It is Hasdeztwazi in Navajo, meaning "arched spiral rock"
The Lower Antelope Canyon is located underground, and the sudden increase in rainfall during the rainy season has caused the rate of flash flooding to be quite fast.
In addition, the narrow passage narrows the river, so the vertical erosivity is relatively large, forming a corridor at the bottom of the Antelope Canyon, and a hard, smooth, water-like edge on the valley wall.
The texture of the red rock wall dances with the sun and the light. Compared to the most famous light column, its silky water wall is even more interesting!
This legendary "place that God touched" truly stood in the most beautiful front line of the world, and realized that the changes in light and shadow in reality have been shocking and amazing!
The sun shines through the cracks in different depths of the rock. From the beginning of the canyon, the light changes constantly.
Rocks are like flowing water, undulating, showing different colors such as powder, orange, purple and red.
As the world's most famous "first-line sky", the beauty of Antelope Valley has long been stamped and sits firmly in the world's top ten photography holy places...
Under the honed years of torrents, it has formed its porcelain-like lines and color blocks, and has all the static and dynamic pictures!
Horseshoe bend Horseshoe Bay is very close to the Antelope Valley. It is about 2 kilometers south of the intersection of Highways 89 and 98. It takes ten minutes to drive, and you can walk for more than 1 kilometer after parking!
It is really hard to walk this section of the road in the summer heat!
After all, with the climate here, it’s not easy to travel back and forth for nearly three kilometers on this desert road.
![](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmTEQ6yDSCXkh9JypHR1FdPaZTaSZmnNCBXtr9CFi5m"Horse Horse Bay", and some people call it the Colorado River U-shaped big turn!
More than 300 feet vertical drop,
270 degree U-curve,
The blue sky and the clear red rock make up this magnificent and invincible wonder...
If the shock of the Grand Canyon is based on innocence,
Then the shock of Horseshoe Bay is concentrated!
Such shocks are by no means a description of photos or videos. Only when you experience them can you deeply understand...
The unique landscape and inspiring scenery attract a large number of photographers and tourists, making it a must-see in the eyes of people!
However, the cliff without any protective measures seems to feel a heartbeat missed at a glance...
Before I came, I felt that it would be very difficult to shoot the Horseshoe Bay. The courage is not big enough, the heart is not strong enough, or don't take risks!
In fact, it was discovered after the arrival that the stones on the cliff were rough enough that you don’t have to worry about it. Jumping around is also easy!
The entire land under the sun shines with beautiful metallic red rhyme, and the Emerald Colorado River is a natural match.
The soil containing a lot of iron and manganese is like a piece of metal with a metallic luster;
The river water maps out the surrounding rock wall, deep and charming!
Just looking at the parking lot that is still far away from the other side, returning to walk more than 1 km of gravel road, uphill and downhill, plus the sun shining in the sun, it is hard to imagine how to come over during the summer vacation in July and August. ......
owweap Overlook, the commanding height of Lake Powell in the Grand Canyon
The Colorado River is the mother river in the western United States. It is like our Yangtze River Yellow River. There are two famous dams on the river: one is the Hoover Dam that I saw before, and the other is the Glen Canyon Dam!
It was intercepted by Lake Powell, the second largest artificial lake in the United States, named after the first John Wesley Powell to explore and drift the Colorado River.
The melting snow of the Rocky Mountains makes this artificial lake more transparent than the sky above the head. The rocky surface of the rock is alive and clear. The enlarged version of the rainbow cake, white, milky white, beige, light brown, from shallow Deep, in turn, transition...
The blue mirror-like lake and the axe-cut cliffs are still slightly inferior because of the lack of light in the evening, but they are still beautiful!