We stayed in Tuba City in the Navajo Nation (the Navajos call the reservation Navajo Nation) after visiting the Four Corners (also in the Navajo Nation). This is some of the scenery in Navajo Nation. It is a very desolate area with single houses scattered throughout the area. Now and then there are small communities with several homes. This area is very hot in the summer and very cold in the winter with elevations at 5000 to 6000 feet.
This is is some of the red rock mountains surrounding Sedona. We took a Pink Jeep tour and had a guide who told us that there are many indian ruins in the area found only by hiking in the surrounding canyons. Most of the area around Sedona is protected land.
Another beautiful scene looking across the valley to the red rock mountains. The jeep tour took us to several canyons on a very rough dirt road and the guide pointed out different formations and different desert plants.
This is Montezuma's Castle. The indians who lived here are thought to be ancestors of the Utes. This particular cliff dwelling was inhabited for about 300 years from 900 to 1200 AD. The inhabitants were farmers who farmed in the fertile valley below the cliffs and were thought to have built the cliff dwellings for protection. The people who lived here disappeared around 1200 and no one knows what caused them to leave. Some theories are that the river at the base of this mountain dried up and they no longer had a good water source or that a disease caused there disappearance.
We stayed in Tuba City in the Navajo Nation (the Navajos call the reservation Navajo Nation) after visiting the Four Corners (also in the Navajo Nation). This is some of the scenery in Navajo Nation. It is a very desolate area with single houses scattered throughout the area. Now and then there are small communities with several homes. This area is very hot in the summer and very cold in the winter with elevations at 5000 to 6000 feet.
This is is some of the red rock mountains surrounding Sedona. We took a Pink Jeep tour and had a guide who told us that there are many indian ruins in the area found only by hiking in the surrounding canyons. Most of the area around Sedona is protected land.
Another beautiful scene looking across the valley to the red rock mountains. The jeep tour took us to several canyons on a very rough dirt road and the guide pointed out different formations and different desert plants.
This is Montezuma's Castle. The indians who lived here are thought to be ancestors of the Utes. This particular cliff dwelling was inhabited for about 300 years from 900 to 1200 AD. The inhabitants were farmers who farmed in the fertile valley below the cliffs and were thought to have built the cliff dwellings for protection. The people who lived here disappeared around 1200 and no one knows what caused them to leave. Some theories are that the river at the base of this mountain dried up and they no longer had a good water source or that a disease caused there disappearance.
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