Utah, USA, 21st October 2014.

Moving out of Las Vegas and entering Utah, our first destination was Zion Canyon.  This is the view from the bridge on the way into the National Park.

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Zion Canyon is on the edge of the Colorado Plateau and so is unusual in that you walk in from the bottom of the canyon instead of looking around from the top.

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Near the bridge is as far as you can drive a car.  To go further up the canyon you have to take a bus and then walk.

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The rocks are mainly sandstone and the layers date mainly from the Triassic to the Jurassic (250 to 150 million years ago).

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Anasazi (ancestral publoans) lived in this area from about 2,000 years ago; Paiutes from about 800 years ago and Mormons from the 1860s.

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Back at the bridge (similar viewpoint to the first image) for the fading sun.

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This final image is a ten minute exposure after dark.

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