The Grand Canyon from Air
Day 4 of #ChallangeonNaturePhotography
Thank you for nominating me Nancy Holsten. For the 4th day I would like to nominate Saloni Shah & Priyank Patel, requesting them to post one photo a day for seven days to spread the love for nature and to also nominate another person each day.
The Grand Canyon is an absolutely stunning vista from the edge of the rim, but you should take a half hour sortie in a Chopper through the Canyon, to truly witness it's tremendous magnificence. The Grand Canyon surprises you in many ways but the biggest surprise is it's sudden sheer crevice that jumps onto you from nowhere. As we hired a car from the Las Vegas Airport & drove from it's surprisingly high altitude of 620 meters, we drove onto a gradual ascent with a very little upward gradient. Having seen photographs of Grand Canyon over the years, we expected a spiral high climb, similar to our Himalayas & expected tall mountains on our way. We kept on anticipating that mountains would suddenly just spring up from nowhere, this to our chagrin never came, as we kept on coming closer to the destination. We finally ended up in the Grand Canyon Village & checked into into our hotel, The Yavapai Lodge. No sign of mountains nor the Canyon to be seen, although Altitude Meter read 1500 meters. And then we saw the Grand Canyon & realized our folly. It was not a valley between mountains, but it was a Canyon! A Grand one at that! A Canyon that was carved by this river Colorado some 20 million years back. It makes you think how this arid desert like region having very little rainfall could once have a turgid river of unimaginable tremendous force that etched the Grand Canyon out of the Colorado plateau.
The Grand Canyon from Air
Day 4 of #ChallangeonNaturePhotography
Thank you for nominating me Nancy Holsten. For the 4th day I would like to nominate Saloni Shah & Priyank Patel, requesting them to post one photo a day for seven days to spread the love for nature and to also nominate another person each day.
The Grand Canyon is an absolutely stunning vista from the edge of the rim, but you should take a half hour sortie in a Chopper through the Canyon, to truly witness it's tremendous magnificence. The Grand Canyon surprises you in many ways but the biggest surprise is it's sudden sheer crevice that jumps onto you from nowhere. As we hired a car from the Las Vegas Airport & drove from it's surprisingly high altitude of 620 meters, we drove onto a gradual ascent with a very little upward gradient. Having seen photographs of Grand Canyon over the years, we expected a spiral high climb, similar to our Himalayas & expected tall mountains on our way. We kept on anticipating that mountains would suddenly just spring up from nowhere, this to our chagrin never came, as we kept on coming closer to the destination. We finally ended up in the Grand Canyon Village & checked into into our hotel, The Yavapai Lodge. No sign of mountains nor the Canyon to be seen, although Altitude Meter read 1500 meters. And then we saw the Grand Canyon & realized our folly. It was not a valley between mountains, but it was a Canyon! A Grand one at that! A Canyon that was carved by this river Colorado some 20 million years back. It makes you think how this arid desert like region having very little rainfall could once have a turgid river of unimaginable tremendous force that etched the Grand Canyon out of the Colorado plateau.