How many ways to describe the beauty of America's SouthWest! Magnificent, awesome, breath-taking, majestic, exhilarating, and on, and on. As we drove through Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah, with each bend in the highway or cresting of a hill, the superlatives just kept coming.
Heading towards our first stop in Eastern Arizona, Show Low, AZ, we drove through magnificent forest, and colourful rocky terrain.
Onward to Buffalo Thunder, just north of Santa Fe, where we explored the 'Enchanted Circle' drive via Taos, and the many small communities in the high country as well as sampling the culinary fare of Old Santa Fe.
We drove to Durango, CO, through more rustic beauty from the high desert of New Mexico to the green mountains of Colorado. Along the way, we spent several hours exploring Mesa Verde National Park, the largest archaeological preserve in the United States, where we viewed some of the best-preserved cliff dwellings in the world, home to the Anasazi who inhabited Mesa Verde between 600 to 1300.
MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK
Moab, UT, the hub for visitors to Arches and Canyonlands National Parks.
For those who have experienced these landscapes, neither words or images can justify the spectacular and unrivaled beauty. Reliving a photo shoot I participated in the previous year, we explored many sites, which although crowded with sight-seers, still filled us with the "wow' factor.
For those who have experienced these landscapes, neither words or images can justify the spectacular and unrivaled beauty. Reliving a photo shoot I participated in the previous year, we explored many sites, which although crowded with sight-seers, still filled us with the "wow' factor.
Leaving Moab behind us, on our way to
Sedona,AZ,
we made a stop at
Natural Bridges National Monument
where again, we were amazed
by the beauty that nature has created.
Sedona,AZ,
we made a stop at
Natural Bridges National Monument
where again, we were amazed
by the beauty that nature has created.