The Arches was near a place called Moab. After Grand Canyon and Canyon lands, I thought I wouldn't be surprised by nature's works of art as I had seen some of the best of them, but I was terribly wrong!
The Arches Park, was a prehistoric land similar to Canyon Lands, the speciality of the park was the huge arc shaped structures formed by wind erosion over millions of years. Eons ago this area was supposedly under the ocean! and salt deposits got eroded away to form the arches that we see today.
9:30 Am - The arches national park:
It was a bit cold outside at this time of day. We were walking through the trail that led to the 300 foot landscape arch. The trails were laid out and neat, rather than the primitive trail that we saw in Canyon lands.
This trail will take us to a few arches, depending on how long we want to walk through it. There is an option to go through another difficult trail, for the more adventerous. But as we need to return back to LA, we did not try going through it.
After about a mile walk we reached the Landscape arch, it was a wonderful sight! The arch streched along the crystal blue summer sky.
After taking a few snaps, we moved back in the trail to go to a couple of other arches.
The Tunnel arch and Pine-Tree arch were totally different from landscape, but were interesting in themselves.
11:00 am - towards the delicate arch
Time was running out, we need to get back, in the meantime we could not miss the amazing sights the Arches park is famous for, and one of them is the delicate arch.
The delicate arch is huge and sits on top of a hill. We can go near it, by climbing or walking a long distance or we could go watch it from a far off observation point. We went to the observation point and took a look at it, would have been really nice if we got the time to walk all the way to the top and stand near the arch. Anyway will save that for next time!
11:32 am - The Windows
The windows refers to a groups of arches, in all stages of formation. Plenty of arches along the same area. It was a short stop, just to take a few photographs, and then were back on our way out of the park!
Later that day we were back home in LA, and the wonderful summer roadtrip came to an end.
Picture of the 300 foot landscape arch, taken by me
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