Blogs from Monument Valley, Arizona, United States, North America - page 6

Monument Valley is famous for its dramatic landscape, gigantic rocks shaped by erosion for millions of years and also for being the set of many Western movies, most of them featuring John Wayne. Some of you will be familiar with some of our pictures. Monument Valley is located inside the Navajo Reservation in the north of Arizona and south of Utah. The day before we toured Monument Valley we passed by the Navajo National Monument. Because the Navajo Reservation is private property very little can be explored without a guide. We joined a whole day tour with a Navajo guide at Gouldings Trading Post. The morning part of the tour took us to Mystery Valley just south of Monument Valley. This part is less well known because it is treated like an archaeological site and also ... read more

En conduisant de nuit du Grand Canyon à Monument Valley, on ne s'était pas rendu compte que le paysage avait drôlement changé en deux heures de route. Avant d'arriver au parc de Monument Valley en lui-même, nous sommes vraiment passé par le paysage typiquement américain: une route qui n'en finit pas avec strictement rien autour si ce n'est des blocs de pierre géants, magnifique! Le parc n'est pas un parc national comme tous ceux que nous ferons pendant notre voyage mais un parc tenus par les Indiens Navajos qui résistent encore et toujours à l'envahisseur. Et comme ils ne font pas payer le prix exorbitants des parcs, ils n'entretiennent pas le parc, ni les routes. Alors quand on a une voiture qui a les lignes d'un SUV mais les possibilités d'une AX, on a bien lutté ... read more

Sunday September 28, 2008 Try to blow your mind away - its easy driving from Durango, Colorado to Monument Valley Utah. From yellow fall Aspen colours in the foothills of the 13,000 foot San Juan Mountains to red sand desert, pale green sage and stupendous monoliths rising 300 metres (1,000 feet) from the desert floor. Along the way the climate changed gradually - becoming much dryer as we entered native American reservation land, first Ute then Navajo. The town of Bluff was true to its name with a pale peach sandstone wall behind and massive rocks along the highway that eroded from this bluff. The only real green was bush willow along the shores of the San Juan River which we followed and finally crossed north of Mexican Hat on Highway 162. Then we turned south ... read more

Efter Moab koerte vi ned til Monument Valley, som ligger inde i Navajo Indianernes Reservat. Vi fandt en fin lille campingplads i Goulding, hvor vi blev i 2 naetter. Naetterne i Monument Valley var VARME... temperaturen var en del over 30...om natten... det var sgu lidt svaert at faa en god nats soevn i telt uden aircondition! Her kommer lidt blandede billeder fra monument valley... read more

I made a good start from Chinle this morning and headed for Monument Valley, just seems one of those places that if you are in the area you just need to go to. The drive there was through some pretty barren landscape. All this part of Arizona is made up of Indian reservations, mainly Navajo but some Hopi in the middle of it all. You can see why the early government gave this land as reservations, it is so aris almost nothing will grow here. I am getting tire after my last few days activities and all the driving, so I had decided that when I get to Monument vally I would camp there for a couple of nights and relax a bit. When I got to the park entrance (not NPS but Navajo here as ... read more