With enough time spent in the lap of nature learning the human history, I had enough to ponder about until we reached Vegas. As they saying goes "What happens in Vegas, remains in Vegas", I will leave it there with an admiration towards "Cirque du soleil" production. It is a wonderland on an unbelievable stage. An artist cannot but admire about the hardwork and practice which goes in producing such a classy work with no flaws! Art, grace and imagination all put into team effort to create a magical treat! By the way the show we saw was "Mystere", whose pics I share here as no videos were allowed to be shot and I respect it!
After 2 nights of gambling and wandering on the strip, we visited the world famous engineering marvel Hoover dam, again to be amazed at the art combined with engineering genius. This place hardly took an hour or so for us, leaving us, however with little time to reach our next set of destinations - Antelope and Horse Show Canyons.
Both are 15 mins drive apart, however google kept telling us that we would be reaching there at 4 pm by when Antelope tours would be closed. We tried not to miss it as we had already promised my mom in law to take her there. As we drove without taking too much of a break, we were able to save 10 mins, giving us room to run to the tour operator's counter only to learn that the native American reservations do not follow day light saving(How did google not know this!??), which meant, we had reached there by 3PM :D
We took the lower Antelope tour and were wondering if we had to take the upper canyon tour (we had visited the upper canyon 3 years ago and had enjoyed looking around the place minus the tour). Kendrick was our tour guide from Dixie Tours, who was more eager to share some knowledge about his tribe and community unlike our previous upper canyon experience, where the guide just did photo ops for all and rushed us back to the jeep!He was patient enough to answer all of our curious question, leading us to learn more about the life of a Native American in the reservations and around.
And pictures will speak of the this beautiful canyon, which we were lucky to share with only one more couple as it was Off season, giving us enough time to slowly walk through the canyon sipping and tasting the beauty created by the once flowing river. If you are a photographer, you must make a trip to this place, of course in a off season. We were told that photography tours are also operated and Kendrick himself knew a lot of light and settings needed to click beautiful pics from your mobile phones.
Our final destination was Horse Shoe Canyon or Horse Shoe Bend, which gave an awesome view of the river with the sun deciding to set slowly as the gentle breeze bid us goodbye!
A glimpse of the beautiful view driving from Hoover Dam towards Antelope Canyon
The drive, the divide and the crater
Walnut Canyon in Arizona
For the whole trip plan, visit: https://soumya-innervoice.blogspot.com/2017/11/wild-west-road-trip-through-5-states_7.html
After 2 nights of gambling and wandering on the strip, we visited the world famous engineering marvel Hoover dam, again to be amazed at the art combined with engineering genius. This place hardly took an hour or so for us, leaving us, however with little time to reach our next set of destinations - Antelope and Horse Show Canyons.
Both are 15 mins drive apart, however google kept telling us that we would be reaching there at 4 pm by when Antelope tours would be closed. We tried not to miss it as we had already promised my mom in law to take her there. As we drove without taking too much of a break, we were able to save 10 mins, giving us room to run to the tour operator's counter only to learn that the native American reservations do not follow day light saving(How did google not know this!??), which meant, we had reached there by 3PM :D
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| Perfect light makes it glow - Antelope |
We took the lower Antelope tour and were wondering if we had to take the upper canyon tour (we had visited the upper canyon 3 years ago and had enjoyed looking around the place minus the tour). Kendrick was our tour guide from Dixie Tours, who was more eager to share some knowledge about his tribe and community unlike our previous upper canyon experience, where the guide just did photo ops for all and rushed us back to the jeep!He was patient enough to answer all of our curious question, leading us to learn more about the life of a Native American in the reservations and around.
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| Antelope captured in evening light |
Our final destination was Horse Shoe Canyon or Horse Shoe Bend, which gave an awesome view of the river with the sun deciding to set slowly as the gentle breeze bid us goodbye!
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| Beautiful Horse Shoe Bend at sunset! |
A glimpse of the beautiful view driving from Hoover Dam towards Antelope Canyon
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The drive, the divide and the crater
Walnut Canyon in Arizona
For the whole trip plan, visit: https://soumya-innervoice.blogspot.com/2017/11/wild-west-road-trip-through-5-states_7.html
1 comment:
This post really helped us to plan our Antelope and Horseshoe bend trip. Very nicely written Soumya. Keep em coming. Cheers
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