Antelope Canyon - Page, Arizona

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After our visit to the Grand Canyon, we put Kanab Utah in our review mirror and headed east to Page, Arizona, where we stayed a couple of nights at the Wahweap Campground on the shore of Lake Powell.

Our mission was to find Antelope; Antelope Canyon that is.

AC is described as one of the most breathtaking and tranquil places on earth. Gently carved from the Navajo sandstone over the course of countless millenniums, the slot canyons are majestic and narrow passages, just enough space for a small group to walk the sandy floor - and for the occasional shafts of sunlight to shine down from above.

Antelope Canyon is really two separate canyons - Upper and Lower Antelope. Each contains the hidden "slots" carved from the swirling sandstone, and both drain from the south into Lake Powell (once the Colorado River). The canyons are so narrow in places that one can stretch out his or her arms and touch both sides.

The Navajo name for Upper Antelope Canyon is Tse' bighanilini, which means "the place where water runs through rocks." Upper Antelope is at about 4,000 feet elevation and the canyon walls rise 120 feet above the streambed. Lower Antelope Canyon is Hasdestwazi, or "spiral rock arches." Both are located within the LeChee Chapter of the Navajo Nation.

We left Shaddy with the air conditioner running in the rig, and caught the first tour of the morning while is was still cool. You have to pay an entrance fee and a tour fee to visit the Canyon. We visited the Upper Antelope Canyon.

The first stage of the tour was a three mile bumpy ride on benches in the back canopied bed of a knobby tired pickup truck to the narrow slotted entrance of the canyon.

I’ll let the pictures uploaded with this post to describe our awesome experience. What a treat this was!

See larger size images at Paddy’s Antelope Canyon Photos

Paddy

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[julia a Knaake]

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Antelope Canyon 19 would be wonderful to paint...Julia