Thursday, August 6, 2009

Day 14 - 16 June 2009


We departed Zion canyon through the tunnel that was cut through the mountain to let visitors in and out from both directions, west and east. We went east to Bryce Canyon National Park. All along the scenery kept changing, one more interesting than the other. Just before reaching Bryce Canyon the earth became redder and redder. I thought nothing could top the beauty of Red Canyon, just before Bryce Canyon.

But Bryce Canyon is something out of this world! The rock formations sculpted by erosion look unreal. When looking down on them from the rim of the canyon I thought I was looking at a make believe landscape found in Disneyland. We took a hike between the towers of rocks called Hoodoos, to the bottom of the canyon and back up. What nature does is incredible.

We had enough time left in the day to drive on to the town of Escalante at the edge of the Grand Escalante Staircase National Monument. We didn't do any sightseeing, the campground was crummy, but it had a good Wifi connection allowing us to do some computing. That was day 14.

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