We continued our road trip up to Page, AZ near Lake Powell to see Antelope Canyon. The lake is the divider between AZ and Utah, and it is so beautiful (more info. on the lake in a later post). Antelope Canyon is the most popular of many canyons in this area that have filled up with water and sculpted beautiful walls that mixed with beams of light shining through are a photographer's dream.
The canyons are located on Navajo land, so you have to schedule a tour and have a navajo guide take you. There are different canyons and types of tours (including photography tours but those are more expensive), but we did the most touristy of them all - antelope canyon around noon with a group of probably 20 people. There are different companies that you can go through but they all end up doing about the same thing. I think we paid just over $30 per person and the total tour lasted about an hour and a half. Just make sure you schedule a tour for when the light beams will be shining down. I think you can just drive up there and get on a jeep for a tour, but it was VERY crowded and looked disorganized and slightly sketchy. I'd suggest planning ahead and scheduling a tour through a valid company. If we were to go again, I would go to one of the less well-known canyons because the one we went to ended up being very crowded and it was hard to get pictures without people in them. Still though, it is an amazing and breathtaking place to be.
They will fill up jeeps or SUVs with tourists, drive you around the corner and then you'll go off-roading for a mile or so until you end up at a very unassuming "crack" in a wall of rock. Once you go in, you'll see how amazing it is. I can't describe it as well as the pictures can, so I'll post quite a few. If you Google Antelope Canyon, you'll see even better professional pictures.
This place is a must-see if you're in Arizona. It's amazing, and I hope I can go back one day to explore the less popular ones.
