Antelope Canyon is a little canyon just
outside Page, Arizona. Page seems to be a town that exists solely because there
is a whole bunch of really amazing stuff within spitting distance. That’s
actually not the case, Page was founded because they were building a dam and
needed a place to house the workers, so they bought the land from the local
Navajo people, but there are so many beautiful things around here – Monument
Valley, Horseshoe Bend, Lake Powell as well as Antelope Canyon – we could
easily have stayed longer.
Antelope Canyon is a slot canyon. I say
that like I know what it means, right? Well, as far as I can tell, it means a
super narrow, winding canyon where if you get distracted for a second, say,
checking the photos on your camera, you are most likely to end up walking face
first into a rock formation. At certain times of year, Antelope Canyon gets
these light shafts down through the canyon. Photos of the canyon with these
shafts of light are making it onto the internet and into travel books. We were
not there at that time of year, so if you want to see those photos, you’re
going to have to Google it, but it really didn’t matter, as you will see when
you see the photos. As long as you have some light coming down into the canyon,
it’s all good.
