The one and only: The GRAND CANYON

The greatest spectacle of them all:

Grand Canyon

I have visited this greatest natural wonder twice.

Both times I came away with a feeling of wonder and awe.

How can you not? Just consider the dimensions:

446 km long, up to 29 km wide and over 1,850 m in depth.

Over several million years the Colorado river cut through the rock,

while at the same time the plates on both sides were lifted,

exposing almost 2 billion years of Geological Development.

For more years than one can count,

the rims and the bottom of this chasm were settled by native people of the area.

There were the Havasupai, the Navajos, the Hopis and the Puebloans 

among others, who lived there,

until Franciscan Missionaries, accompanied by soldiers came during the 1500

and attempted to convert the Natives to Catholicism.

Fortunately these efforts remained largely unsuccessful!

How much more could I tell you?

Better still: Visit the Grand Canyon yourself, because no picture, no story will

endow you with the sense of wonder you will experience.

In  the meantime, let's look at some pictures!

Yes, You read right:

That's 1 Billion and 700 Million years. (Give or take a couple of months.)

Yes, this is your intrepid 'Explorer' and Photographer, 

standing precariously on the rim of this wonder.

Neither words, nor Pictures can adequately describe this land.

It is something one must experience in Nature.

check the people in the right hand upper corner-