Canyon de Chelly National Park (pronounced da Shay)
Amazing, beautiful and any other adjective you can say about a beautiful place - this place has it.
We spent all day here and saw about 90% of it all.
We hiked down into the canyon to view the 'white house ruins'. These ruins date from about 1200 and are some of the oldest in the canyon. The one mile trail is rocky and steep in places but well-maintained and not too difficult - it takes between 25 and 50 minutes to get down, depending on your fitness. (Gold's Gym has nothing on walking down into a canyon and then back up to the top.)
There are a couple of short tunnels, plenty of cacti and lizards, and the track passes a farm and an orchard before crossing the stream to the ruins. Near the stream, just before the second tunnel, there is an interesting short-cut down a narrow gully, using old foot-holes carved in the sandstone walls.
Spider Rock - over 800 feet tall.
We left for Holbrook, Arizona and arrived in the evening - dinner was at Denny's - Emi felt a little sick afterwards.
