Saturday, March 31, 2012

Canyon de Chelly National Park,  our last stop on our road trup.
 View of the canyon from the south rim drive looking down at white house ruin.
We took a 3 hour jeep tour and this was our vehicle.  There was another couple and they happen to be from Switzerland near St. Moritz.
 We saw ruins from various time periods, mostly Anasazi.   This is white house ruin.
 We saw petroglyphs.  These are Navajo, the last people to settle in this canyon.  There are still families living here, descendants of the original people.

 We traveled in  a 4 wheel drive jeep with a Navajo guide and most of the time either in the stream which had been higher the day before due to spring runoff,   I took this photo from the jeep as we were traveling.
 Our guide was very experienced because we saw this twice during our tour.He tried to wench this truck out but it had settled on a sand bar and was not moving. We didn't get back until 7:30.
That worked out well because this is what the sunset looked like on the red rock.

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