It is quiet in the blog the past few days. The keyboard has scheduled dust. The mouse stops hibernating. Or so. Why is it that the last post is already ten days old?
Certainly not because I have not seen the last few days - quite the contrary. But from the beginning: The last weekend
was extended by one day for me, because here on Monday Washington's Birthday or Presidents' Day was celebrated . It was ideal, therefore, to use the days for a small Utah-Finding Tour. Together with three other German exchange students I rented a car and took me on Friday afternoon on a five-hour drive to the south-east, after Moab.
Moab is a town that has something to offer to very little. For tourists it is still attractive from a very specific reason: namely, Moab is in close proximity to two national parks, the starting right outside the city Arches and the somewhat more distant Canyonlands National Park .
were on Saturday for us Canyonlands on the program, more precisely, whose northern part, which Iceland in the Sky . I would not lose many words about the park itself (who wants a bit more background information, can follow the last link), only this: The host of us part of the canyon country is bordered to the west by Green River , to the east of much more famous Colorado River . At the southernmost point of the park portion unite the rivers.
Green River and Colorado in millions of years, they created a truly magnificent canyon scenery, which, they say, perhaps even more overwhelming than the famous Grand Canyon . But I want pictures can speak and not words, that the curtain to Photo Safari (turn and think: leave to enlarge Click the images):
Early Saturday morning we drove off ...
... past free-roaming cows in Free Range Areas (means: you go through a grating on the road and the next moment in the middle of a cow pasture) ...
... towards the sun :
Before the actual national park visit, however we made a detour in the directly adjoining Dead Horse Point State Park . So he took the opportunity for a first look into the canyon of the Colorado ...
... and the surrounding vegetation ...
... but the very near future through the second and third view has been exceeded:
In the wake of this overwhelming opening it finally went back for a last look ...
... next to the actual destination of the day, the Canyonlands National Park.
first sight for us was there the Upheaval Dome , a crater larger than a kilometer in diameter, whose creation there are different theories - among other things, a meteorite believed. Here are some impressions from the crater itself and its environment:
Die Tour von unserem Parkplatz zum Krater und zurück nahm einige Zeit in Anspruch. Im Anschluss wurde daher ein zweites Frühstück eingelegt, bevor die Aussicht fürs erste wieder aus Autofahrer-Perspektive genossen wurde:
Der nächste Stopp am Green River Overlook bot wieder einen grandiosen Blick über einen Canyon, diesmal allerdings, wie der Name schon sagt, über den vom Green River geformten:
The images can certainly play only a weak imitation of the experience: kilometer-wide view of a completely deserted area, and what was perhaps even more impressive - absolute silence.
Probably we had met that day just the happiness that several factors: no wind blew, a few other people could be looking everywhere and there was still snow, which provides additional cushioning. I lack the right words to describe, so with pictures:
Not many animals we had seen that day: the cows have been shown, some rodents, which unfortunately zu schnell und klein für ein ordentliches Foto waren, aber vor allem diese Gesellen:
Der Himmel blieb den ganzen Tag über blau, aber obwohl die Temperatur noch unter Null lag, spürte man die Kraft der Spätwintersonne (vor allem am Abend dann, in Form eines Sonnenbrandes im Gesicht):
Nach einer weiteren Auto-Etappe standen wir schließlich vor dem Mesa Arch , einem Felsenbogen, der schon einen kleinen Vorgeschmack auf den Arches-Nationalpark gab, der ja für Sonntag geplant war:
It was already afternoon when we reached the southernmost point of the tour, the Grand View Point Overlook . He offers a view of both rivers, Colorado and Green River, the view from there something somewhere merge further south.
A look that can roam freely, according to a guide on this point than a hundred miles Canyon:
From the next stage, a short hike to and through the Whale Rock (a strongly rounded rocks, reminiscent in shape with a little imagination to the body of a whale), I have unfortunately no reasonable pictures - on that day I had, I think for the first time ever since I my own camera to deal with a borderless full memory card. And a couple of shots I wanted to save important for the grand finale of the day.
As it was in fact become evening, we went back once more to the westward Green River Overlook , there to enjoy the sunset:
So I choose the photo tour on Saturday. It should be clear why I am the last days did not come to write. If it does not: I'm in the last week alone more than 300 photos from Saturday sorted and processed, and assembled and edited thirteen panoramas (which by the way see you all here). With the pictures from Sunday I have not even started.
I still hope that the long wait has been worthwhile. The report from Sunday will follow in the next journal.
Good morning, Utah. Good morning, Germany (and also best wishes to my readers or my reader in Australia)!
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