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Antelope Canyon (Arizona, USA)

  • by _valentin_
  • | Feb 24, 2011
  • | 662 views
  • | 20 comments

Antelope Canyon is a unique place that when you see pictures of it, you would want to go there, and when you go there you would want to go back again later to see more of it.  I had known about this place for some years (from travel books and photo albums), and only in 2010 seriously sat down to find out how to get there, and then went despite concerns about the weather (if it rains, the place gets flooded and can be dangerous so it is usually closed to the public).  The concerns proved unfounded despite the local weather forecast for the day, rewarding the choice of going there.

The pictures below are from Upper Antelope Canyon, while the Lower part of the canyon is only open to people who are able to squeeze and climb confidently, i.e., not suitable for families with small children as in my case.

Apologies for the somewhat terse subtitles (the system wouldn't allow the longer ones I had originally written, and they were truncated) and for some of the rotated images (although the system seems to allow rotation to adjust the originals, it doesn't actually do it).


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  • 6 months ago

    dermi

    That is a movie by Danny Boyle, nominated for Oscar last year( a true story)....

     

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/127_Hours

  • 6 months ago

    _valentin_

    I am not sure what you mean by "127 hours movie"...  Can you clarify?

  • 6 months ago

    dermi

    are they shown in 127 hours movie?

  • 8 months ago

    _valentin_

    I recommend the travel there!  It is accessible by various tours from a small town called Page, Arizona -- close to the border with Utah.  

    While the tour I took looked a bit expensive at first ($30 for a 90-minute visit), afterwards I was happy I didn't save the money -- it's a lifetime experience to see such things, while saving $30 is hardly equivalent to a life-changing experience.

  • 8 months ago

    ellge

    Beautiful pictures! I had to open them in a separate window (=larger scale) to see the shapes.First I thought there'd been some kind of mistake - looked like totally abstract artSmile. I imediately looked up antelope canyon and was pleased to find out that it's the land of the Navajos. Navajos (and Apaches) has been my favourit indian tribes ever since I was a childSmile. Travelling on the Internet is not the same as travelling physically but it's not badSmileSmile

  • 13 months ago

    aristeidis9

    Very nice?! Do you Canyoning?

    check this: "Xa" canyon,Crete, Greece.

  • 15 months ago

    _valentin_

    Regarding the geological formation of the canyon, here is what Wikipedia has to say (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antelope_Canyon):

    "Antelope Canyon was formed by erosion of Navajo Sandstone, primarily due to flash flooding and secondarily due to other sub-aerial processes. Rainwater, especially during monsoon season, runs into the extensive basin above the slot canyon sections, picking up speed and sand as it rushes into the narrow passageways. Over time the passageways are eroded away, making the corridors deeper and smoothing hard edges in such a way as to form characteristic 'flowing' shapes in the rock."

  • 15 months ago

    paula53

    Is a very interesting tour...the subtitles where enough dispite the problem you had.

    Thank you for sharing such an unusual views .

  • 15 months ago

    klasse

    Interesting formations. Do you know how the canyon got those shapes, was it a river or glacial-rivers or?

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