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I bought some beautiful silver jewelry off the Native Americans at the Palace of the Governors:
They sit under the verandah along the wall and you walk along and drool at their beautiful handiwork with silver, turquoise, lapis lazuli, leather, etc. It was tough choosing as I liked so many pieces.
I'm not a religious person but I felt like I was having a religious experience in this place. It was gob-smacking!
This was the view while standing on the balcony of our hotel room. The hotel is The View, built and managed by the Navajo. It was a splurge, but well worth it.
That's the famous Amphiteatre and those rock formations are called 'hoodoos'.
It was only early May but very hot in southern Utah. Hiking through the narrow canyons, along the bottom, was a welcome activity as it was a lot cooler.
This is a picture of my hubby. He's up there on that rock that looks like a dog's head. He's crazy that way.
My favourite of all the parks was Dead Horse Point, near Moab, Utah. It was vast and I preferred it over the Grand Canyon because it's a lot less crowded.
It's called "Dead Horse Point" because legend has it that mustangs used to be corralled on that peninsula above and the escape fenced off. One time apparently the cowboys forgot a bunch they had corralled there and the horses died, with all that water below them. Kinda morbid .
We started going down that road in our rental Jeep but turned back as it was so incredibly bumpy. The road looks okay from this view but believe me, it was just craters and washboard. We watched a group of guys on motorbikes go down there. They said it's better on a bike because you can pick your path easier. Looked like fun. Next time.
Awesome desert scenery and pics of Santa Fe.
I've heard Utah's landscape described as "lunar."
Thanks.
Yes, there are a lot of areas with lunar landscape. Dry and parched, very rough. But there's a lot of variety in Utah with canyons and rivers and mountains.
I'd love to explore the northern part of the state one time. I've been through Salt Lake City as a teenager but I'm not so much interested in the cities in that part of the US. The landscape fascinates me much more. I really enjoy hiking but only if I've got pretty country to look at, and there was a lot of pretty country on our Southwest adventure. This was only a taste. Next time, we'd like to spend several months there.
This was the view while standing on the balcony of our hotel room. The hotel is The View, built and managed by the Navajo. It was a splurge, but well worth it.
When I looked to the right, I saw ....
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Originally Posted by Vichel
My favourite of all the parks was Dead Horse Point, near Moab, Utah. It was vast and I preferred it over the Grand Canyon because it's a lot less crowded.
WOW......what a spectacular view...
I googled the hotel and it's now on my "must do" list for sometime in the future. Utah has such amazing scenery.
We went to Lake Powell (Utah) for our summer vacation last year.
This was our camp site....and you can't go there without doing some fishing...
Over time the erosion has carved holes and shapes into the cliff facings.
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Monument Valley
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