Saturday, 14 November 2009

Zion Park 13 Nov

What can I say, amazing, beautiful, breathtaking. You can see it all in the photos.
The first few photos were taken before a tunnel that takes you 1 mile through a mountain to get into the valley. These are all old sand dunes that were covered in a deposit of wet mud and then buried for millions of years in which time they turned to stone. Down in the valley most of the sandstone and limestone was formed under an ancient sea.
It rained in the morning for the first time in months so we were lucky enough to see waterfalls in the park as we hiked up to the lower and middle emerald pools, but the dry, desert land soon sucked up all the water and the streams and waterfalls that we saw in the morning were gone.
Absolutely incredible, I can't say more.
We camped on a high plateau on the way to Bryce Canyon with the threat of snow all around, we will have to check the conditions in the morning to see if we can continue or have to wait a day for the snow to pass.

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