Thanks Walmart

WEDNESDAY 28th
After a good night’s sleep in the Walmart carpark we drove back to the Glen Canyon Dam for a brief look then headed off to Antelope Canyon. The whole Page area is on a Navajo reservation so there are lots of native American Indians around the place – the Navajo have run tours into Antelope Canyon, you can’t hike it independently. So we took the tour – with Mary, out Indian tour guide – and she took us on the back of her pickup up a dry river wash to the slot canyon called Antelope Canyon. This is one of the most spectacular and photogenic canyons in the region when the light is right. Unfortunately mid summer is the best time, not mid Autumn but it was still awesome and we managed to get some OK photographs. We were the only group there which was wonderful, in the summer there are hundreds of people in the canyon at any one time – it must be hideous!
After Antelope we drove off south to Vermilion Cliffs for lunch and Sharon bought some authentic Navajo jewellery at a roadside stall at Cliff Dwellings.
We arrived at Grand Canyon at about 4pm and stopped at a couple of vista points but it was very hazy although Adam and Reid were overawed by the immensity of the canyon. We checked into a trailer park and discovered that the temperature was predicted to drop to -7 Deg C overnight…
Mark