Zion is red and it is incredible! It is a paradise for someone like me, who loves drawing rocks! (something to do with the angles and shadows...don't ask me)
Posting a pic so you keep up with me :)
We took the bus up-road, where we could see it all from the windows! Went all the way to the end of the road and took the easy trail and went all the way to the end of it...not very adventurous, but giving the time we had to spend there we did pretty well!
OMG it is a place never to forget! nature is JUST THERE, you breathe and live it!
On our way out we took a Mt Carmel Highway up the mountains, and as we went up the whole place just opened itself for us, like a real paradise!
The peaks and valleys are fantastic!
This whole place once-upon-a-time was a huge desert (some 200-million years ago), even bigger than Zahara! Through time Calcium carbonate cemented loose grains of sand making hard sandstone.
We stopped at Checkboard Mesa, a peak where the fissures make a pattern that, oh well, looks like a checkboard! The left to right scratches are due to a north to south wind direction while the vertical cracks are a result of weathering, a cycle of freezing and thawing.
Amazing...one of a kind!
On the road we stopped at this place and had ice cream! :)
It had a Far West type of thing (completely fake, of course)...but the only picture worth taking is this one on the left...
Our trip will go on, but we just need a rest for now!
Well, you as always has this fantastic way to tell stories. Very well done indeed!
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