Canyonlands NP Islands in the Sky
2023年10月24日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
After spending the night on the banks of the Colorado river, I drive up to a high plateau in Canyonlands NP. A maze of canyons created by the Green and Colorado rivers - overwhelming
Corona Arch
2023年10月26日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌬 16 °C
Exploring the lower Colorado River Scenic Drive today with short hikes to Corona, Bow Tie and Pinto Arches, roadside Jug Handle Arch and some ancient remains. Sitting at Ford Moab this afternoonもっと詳しく
Canyonlands NP Needles District
2023年10月27日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
This part of the national park is accessed from the south end quite remote, it takes an hour to drive through wonderful landscape to get to the entrance. In the park, I did a five hour hike to theもっと詳しく
Hovenweep National Monument
2023年10月28日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
Another day spent visiting various locations with ruins from the Ancestral Pueblo people that also settled Mesa Verde. They are the ancestors of many indigenous peoples in the south west today. Theyもっと詳しく
Goosenecks SP / On the road
2023年10月29日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 10 °C
On the road from Moab (Arches NP) to the next highlight Monument Valley. There are not a lot of settlements and a lot of landscape. Part of the road leads through the Navajo Nation, the largest Indianもっと詳しく
Monument Valley
2023年10月30日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌙 -7 °C
I arrive at Monument Valley on the 29th in the evening, spending a night at The View campground. The view was wonderful, great sunset and even better sunrise, but the night was very cold with -5°.もっと詳しく
Monument Valley - Secret Valley
2023年10月30日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 5 °C
Secret Valley is separated from Monument Valley by a small mountain range (a Mesa), yet the landscape is quite different. Here, there are a lot of arches, ancient ruins, and petroglyphs, as well asもっと詳しく
Lower Antelope Canyon
2023年10月31日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C
Yes, Antelope Canyon us as wonderful, famous, gorgeous as it’s reputation. I had my doubts, but is IS unbelievable. Tour guide Eger played the Native American flute for us in the canyon, it was magic.
Page / Lake Powell
2023年11月1日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 10 °C
I spent two nights in Page, a town that exists because of the Glen Canyon Dam and is the tourism hub for Antelope Canyon and water-based recreation on Lake Powell, 2nd largest artificial lake in theもっと詳しく
Coral Pink Sand Dune State Park
2023年11月2日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
Back to Utah for some cool hikes and a night in the sand. Not sure I would call the color pink, though. The colors at The Nautilus and Toadstool Hoodoos were vibrant, too!
Grand Canyon North Rim
2023年11月3日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 14 °C
The North Rim is usually closed this time of the year due to snow. No snow yet, so it’s open for date visits only. It’s an hour to drive in, an hour to drive back, but it was virtually empty ofもっと詳しく
Vermillion Cliffs / Lees Ferry
2023年11月4日, アメリカ
Driving from Grand Canyon North rim towards page you follow the magnificent Vermillion Cliffs for about 50 miles. The bridge over the Colorado River at Marble Canyon was the only one in >650 km forもっと詳しく
Canyons small and grand
2023年11月5日, アメリカ ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
Today I hike Cathedral Wash, a small canyon requiring quite some climbing, at Lees Ferry before driving to Grand Canyon South Rim, visiting the Desert Watchtower and Viewpoints along the Desert Viewもっと詳しく
Grand Canyon - Rim Walk
2023年11月6日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C
Today I walked and took the free shuttles to explore the South Rim around the Village. I also like the 30s park architecture! Of course nature is the star.
Grand Canyon - Hiking down
2023年11月7日, アメリカ ⋅ 🌬 19 °C
I hike the famous South Kaibab Trail to Skeleton Point, 9,3 round trip, 618 vertical meters… totally worth the experience to be “inside” the canyon though. The rest of the day I relax!
Arizona - Ancestral Pueblo Ruins
2023年11月8日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 11 °C
I’m going south, it’s getting way too cold on the high elevation Colorado plateau. Skipping Flagstaff and Sedona for now, I nonetheless took short detours to more ancient Native Americanもっと詳しく
Camp Verde
2023年11月9日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
I drive to this small town in the Verde River Valley to see the old Fort, but end up spending a lot of time there as I also go to the library and enjoy lunch in this lovely small town.
Phoenix / Scottsdale
2023年11月11日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
City Life! Phoenix is the first time I really spend time in, go shopping and hit the museums. On the first day I went to the Museum of Musical Instruments, really great concept where you can see aもっと詳しく
Goldfield Ghost Town
2023年11月12日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Not really a ghost town… an old mine saved by turning it into a tourist attraction - well done! I spent the night in their campground so you see photos with morning and evening light
Superstition Mountains
2023年11月14日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
North-East of Phoenix wilderness starts suddenly… After my visit to Goldfield I drive up the Apache Trail to the most amazing saloon in Tortilla Flat (almost ghost town), then hike in Bullfrogもっと詳しく
3 Botanical and Bird Gardens in 3 Days
2023年11月16日, アメリカ ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C
Tuesday afternoon I visited Arizona’s oldest botanical garden, Boyce Thompson Arboretum from 1929 with Desert plants from deserts around the world. Yesterday I drove towards Tucson and walked aroundもっと詳しく
Organ Pipe Cactus NM
2023年11月18日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
Very close to the Mexican border in the south western part of Arizona lies the only area in the United States where organ pipe cacti grow. I really love the landscape of the Sonoran desert and greatlyもっと詳しく
Yuma
2023年11月21日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
I visit Yuma, the border city between Arizona and California, and for lots of years the most important crossing on the lower Colorado river. There is a state park with an old prison and an old armyもっと詳しく
In the desert, really?
2023年11月21日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Driving from Organ Pipe Cactus NM to California you are in the Sonoran Desert. Except today it’s one of the most productive agricultural areas of the US - all by irrigation from the big dams in theもっと詳しく
Salvation Mountain
2023年11月22日, アメリカ ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
In the vicinity of Salton Sea a former hippie community has turned into Slab City full of people that you would call Aussteiger in German. Interesting how their housea made of trailers and cardboardもっと詳しく
