Day 9: MEXICAN HAT - SCENIC VIEW - HORSESHOE BEND - ANTELOPE CANYON - PAGE - BRYCE CANYON NATIONAL PARK
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Today we have risen early, as is routine in this trip along the West Coast of the United States and how well we take it when we are traveling.
At 7 in the morning we check out our hotel, the Mexican Hat Lodge and get on our way to Page. Although before we took the opportunity to stop on the road and take photos of one of the places with the best views of Monument Valley Y Forrest Gump movie scene.
Monument Valley
Road where one of the Forrest Gump scenes was filmed
We have hired a Antelope Canyon tour with a local agency at 12.15 in the morning, which is the best hours, as we read in the forums.
If you are staying in Las Vegas a good option if you do not have or do not want to use the car, is to book this excursion to the Antelope Canyon.
We arrived to Page from Mexican Hat after three hours of travel through endless roads, with landscapes of heart attack and thanks to our GPS it took us no more than 10 minutes to locate the agency and park the rental car in the United States just ahead.
We get a good surprise when they tell us that there is an hour less! But as there is no harm that for good does not come as the saying goes, we take this opportunity Scenic Drive and Horseshoe Bend which is a few minutes from where we are.
From the first just say that we could have skipped it perfectly since we have not found it at all scenic. And from the second,Horseshoe Bend, we only have one thing to say: awesome.
To get to Horseshoe Bend you have to make a way up and down in sand, walking, in which it takes about 20 minutes, but when you arrive and see that meander before you, it is impressive.
Horseshoe Bend
We get as close as we can to the edge of the meander and as much as our vertigo leaves us to take the best pictures.
Horseshoe Bend
Horseshoe Bend
After almost half an hour enjoying this incredible spectacle of nature, we return to the agency where before starting the tour we took the opportunity to buy some souvenir.
At 12 in the morning they pick us up in a 4 × 4 and we get started by starting theAntelope Canyon tour, for which we have paid $ 72 per person. The guide has been stopping us in different places before arriving at Antelope Canyon. Then we learned that you can go directly to Antelope Canyon Park and visit with a guide there. This is a little cheaper, although we have to say that the guide with us has behaved wonderfully: he even pushed people away so that we could take pictures, leaving us the time it took. So we believe we have succeeded.
Entrance to Antelope. Antelope Canyon Tour
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And what can we say about this visit? Like all that we are doing on this trip and as we are saying in all strengths Every day, like Monument Valley yesterday, Antelope is impressive (we believe that this word will not stop saying it on this trip).
Antelope Canyon
Of course, we recommend that you make the visit in the hours that there is good light, why we at the exit and that it was 2 in the afternoon, we have verified that it was already beginning to look quite bad.
Antelope Canyon
Antelope Canyon Tour
After this incredible visit, 100% recommended, we take the opportunity to eat at the Fiesta Mexicana restaurant, recommended by the guide and in many forums. Abundant food and very well priced, with a Mexican atmosphere quite achieved, so we cannot complain.
And after the table it is time to return to the car again to go from Antelope to Bryce, where we arrived after 3 hours of travel.
Tonight we will stay at the Best Western Plus Ruby's Inn (which we have not discovered until today that it is a very crowded hotel). Of course, it is huge and very well located: right on the Bryce Park entrance. It also has a good restaurant and a huge gift shop where we miss a few minutes before going to dinner.
We leave you tomorrow we have to visit Bryce Canyon so today we will have to rest a little.
Day 10BRYCE CANYON NP - ZION NP
