After spending a night in a road motel, which you can know from all horror movies, we had a great american breakfast with pancakes to have energy for the hike going down into the Bryce Canyon.
There are several trails going around the canyon, wherein the shortest is like a comfortable walk and the longest could take a full day. We took one, which was like 4 hours, going down from the northern rim. We enjoyed it prety much, since early in the morning there were no tourist yet and temperatures were modest as well.
Actually I liked the place that much, that I even returned there last year in the winter. You can read about it here:
http://szaip.blogspot.nl/2012/01/4th-5th-day.html
Leaving the Bryce canyon we took a shortcut on a dirt road direction monument valley i.e. the Marlboro country. Driving that road was not easy, but we had a lot of fun with the Cherokee and saved 500km s by not driving around the whole Colorado river down to the next bridge.
Instead we took a ferry over Lake Mead and enjoyed looking at the wildlife around the lake.
Shortly after the ferry crossing we arrived in the Monument Valley, which is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized by a cluster of vast sandstone buttes, the largest reaching 1,000 ft (300 m) above the valley floor. The area is part of the Colorado Plateau.
The elevation of the valley floor ranges from 5,000 to 6,000 feet above sea level.We just arrived before sunset and enjoyed the view of the valley after a flash rain in the middle of the desert.
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https://picasaweb.google.com/szaipandras/USA2005#
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