GRAND CANYON
When Nature
takes your breath away
…The Grand Canyon is quite simply one of the most beautiful and majestic sites our planet has to offer, leaving you both breathless and speechless, face to face with beauty on a grand scale almost beyond human comprehension…
The geography text books will tell you that the Grand Canyon is an immense gorge created by the Colorado River as it flows through Northern Arizona, a 446km open wound, up to 1600m deep in places, its width varying dramatically from 500m to 27 km at different points, but these bare facts, striking as they are, do not prepare you for the breathtaking reality. The Grand Canyon is quite simply one of the most beautiful and majestic sites our planet has to offer, leaving you both breathless and speechless, face to face with beauty on a grand scale almost beyond human comprehension. As you look out across the Canyon from the different viewing points, you will find yourself transported by the incredible palate of reds and pinks of the rocks highlighted by the shimmering sunlight, rocks eroded by the elements, and by the passing ages. As the sun sets, the colours change before your eyes in the fading light, and you are reduced to a stunned silence as you feel yourself and nature become one. The only sound is the clicking of cameras striving to capture the majesty of the moment to accompany your indelible memories when you look back on this magical experience.
Along the South Rim there are several viewing points: from Mather Point to the majestic Grand View Point, and on round to Desert View with its famous watchtower. From a distance, The Grand Canyon appears inanimate and inaccessible, but in reality there are a whole range of activities to be tried to give you the full Canyon experience. You can descend on a donkey ever deeper into the very guts of the gorge, or you can tackle the rapids of the Colorado and spend the night camping by the side of the mighty river, the canyon walls towering above you. This is a world in itself, where nature is triumphant and man can only gasp in awe in the presence of the Infinite.
