Hey ya’ll, I hope everyone had a great weekend! Myles and I dog sat my sisters pup Lucy <3 We love getting the chance to spend time with her, it really makes for the best weekend. Other than that, we watched way too many Redbox movies and cooked up some delicious meals (steak, salmon, pesto zucchini noodles, and “poor mans crabcakes”- which by the way are AMAZING, my sister is a fantastic cook and her blog is always an inspiration to me). We also had brunch with my parents on Sunday, which is such a treat. This weekend was just what we needed after a long work week (and killing my car battery for the 15th time on Friday)….
So today I finally am getting to Part 4 of our Arizona adventure, the final post! Even though its been a few weeks since we returned from our trip, I still am loving going through these pictures. This post is going to be a mix of pics from both my iPhone and DSLR. The iPhone pictures in Antelope Canyon really blew me away – our tour guide was right! So I wanted to share a mix of both (iPhone generally has a filter). So without further adieu, let’s get started….
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Day Five: We had a full day of activities planned, so we woke up bright and early for our scheduled tour of the Lower Antelope Canyon with Ken’s Tours (highly recommend!) Antelope Canyon was the sight I was most excited to see on our entire trip, so it was only fitting that we set the tour for our last day. Just a brief background- Antelope Canyon is a ‘slot’ canyon located on Navajo land in Page. You can’t enter the canyon without a tour guide, due to the fact that it’s on tribal land. There are two sections – Upper and Lower, with Lower being the least touristy and more ‘difficult’ to navigate. The views in the canyon change constantly as the sun moves throughout the day. The angle of the sun greatly effects the colors, shadows, and light inside the canyon – it’s truly incredible. Also, Lower Antelope Canyon is more difficult to get to – the entrance to the canyon is a three story stair well and at times the canyon is so narrow only one person can pass. I don’t consider myself to be afraid of heights, but I definitely did not enjoy the narrow stairs LOL (totally held up the line…) however, once we got to the bottom the views were worth it!
This is the “Shark.” Our awesome tour guide made sure to point out all of the sandstone shapes that had formed in the canyon!
*The narrow path out of the canyon. If you were just walking by, you would never even know that the canyon was there!
I honestly have never seen anything like Antelope Canyon. Does anyone recognize these pictures from the Windows desktop background? ( I had no idea!). It was such an incredible experience, and one of the coolest things I have ever seen in my life (as far as landscape/natural parks and I’ve been to my fair share!) I really felt like I was in a different world down there. If you’re ever in Page or making the trip to the Grand Canyon, I can’t recommend enough taking a detour to view this wonder, you will not be disappointed.
Our tour lasted about 1.5 hours and we had some time to kill before our next activity, a raft trip down the Colorado River. We grabbed some sandwiches before meeting up with our group at the Colorado River Discovery and setting sail……
This post is getting a tad long, so I promise I’ll conclude the last part of our trip next time.
As always, thank you for reading!
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