In the southwestern United States is the state of Arizona, which after the most famous of its natural beauty known as the “Grand Canyon State”. By deep gorges, snow-capped mountains to arid Arizona desert landscapes impressed by a diverse landscape, ideal for a variety of outdoor activities.
Arizona has many National Parks, Of which the best known of the Grand Canyon National Park is. With a length of 450 km, a width of up to 30km and a depth of 1600m above the canyon a labyrinth of large and small ravines, over millions of Colorado River were dug into the rock. Accessible to the Grand Canyon from South Rim Grand Canyon Village, the liveliest of the more secluded North Rim. While many view points reachable by car or shuttle bus are, but nothing beats a Hiking through the canyonTo accommodate the landscape right in the can. This is offered for Multi-day tours the South and North Kaibab Trail, The Bright Angel Trail or for 1-day tours of the Hualapai trainingl to. Even from a helicopter from the canyon is more than worth seeing.
Also you should visit the Monument Valley in the Navajo Nation Reserve on the border with Utah. The self-administered by the Navajo Monument Valley, there is no National Park – known for its MesasThat formed the backdrop for many Westerns. Trips to the red sandstone landscape offered by jeep or on horseback, but can explore the remote corners of even less by car.
Another National park in the north of the country is Petrified Forest National ParkThat explains a magical way, the history of the earth. Where today is a barren desert landscape, there were over 200 million years, huge Forests. Fallen trees were buried by mud and volcanic ash and petrified over time. On a tour through the Crystal Forest can such fossilized, admire prevail with quartz and amethyst crystals trees, while in the Blue Mesa and Painted Desert The colorful, fascinating sequence of rock layers.
The list of Arizona’s natural beauty is long and a holiday is hardly enough to get to know them all. For in addition to the Grand Canyon, the western landscape of Monument Valley and the forest of fossils in Petrified Forest National Park, for example, are also the Canyon de Chelly with his Pueblo Ruins, Window Rock, A sandstone formation with a circular hole near the eponymous capital of the Navajo Nation reservation, or the wooded Oak Creek Canyon one visit.