Antelope Canyon in Page, Arizona

Antelope Canyon in Page, Arizona

Biggest is not always best. Grand Canyon, Everest, Maldives atolls are huge and stunning but there are some tiny less well-known sites that will knock your socks off in the intensity of their natural beauty. Petra is one of these and Thompson Falls another.

But much closer to home, Antelope Canyon in Arizona is an intense little gem that will stay with you as one of the great sites you've ever visited.

The Canyon is a sandstone gorge carved by monsoon floods each year.

Part of its beauty is seeing it through the eyes of a Navajo guide for whom the Canyon is a homeland where he played as a child.

Growing up with the Canyon as the centre piece in his life, gave Mac, our Navajo guide, a very different view of the world than the city dwellers he was leading into the flood carved complexity of the Canyon.

Mac, our Navajo Guide

The pictures tell the story of the beauty far better than can words but there is a sense of the spirits in the land that is so much a part of the beliefs of the First Nations.

Antelope Canyon 

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