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 * Paker & Dylan's grand canyon photo journal**

The South Kaibab Trail is one of the best and least traveled of the two rim paths on the Grand Canyon. The South Kaibab Trail was amazing, we went about a mile down the canyon and the farther we went down, the rocks turned different colors. At the top the canyon was lighter color but in the middle it started to get red and darker. Sometime we would stop for our guide to tell us something or when someone pointed something out. This one time he had us stop to feel the rock and someone said it felt almost like sand and the guide said that he was right; the guide told us that it was sandstone. When we got to the end of the trail there was cliff where you could look over it but the guide said if you want to look over you have to lay down on your stomach and look over. I did look over it was really amazing and also really scary. Then we walked back to get to the shuttle to back on the bus to go eat dinner. One of the visitor centers we went to was called Cameron we stopped there to eat food we had subway and it was really good. To eat we went to this garden area where we ate our food. After we all ate we went to the gift shop and they had all this stuff like candy food arrow heads and dream catchers and a lot of Indian stuff. The Colorado River was a lot of fun we started down the river at the hover dam. The dam is so big it is about 700ft tall and 1200ft wide. As we went down the river our guide took us on a small boat and he told us about everything, like horse shoes bend, and Powell’s peak. Horses bend is a curve in the river where it curves more than a 180 degree turn through the canyon and Powell’s peak is a peak that looks like a person praying that john Powell discovered on his journey through the Colorado river in the 1800’s and he also told us everything about the river like when we went over these really small rapids that it was a -3 compared to all the rapids in the Colorado river. When we stopped at a part on the river we got to see drawings on the wall by people that lived there a long long time ago. The Wupatki national Monument was really amazing because we got to go into some ruins built by people from the 11th century. When I went in they had built the walls out of rock that was on the ground. Next to the trail going to the ruins was a lot of black dirt which was ash from sunset crater that erupted a long time ago. All the Wupatki people are gone except for one really old lady who is the only person who is aloud to live in that area. Also all the doors in the ruin are really small which means that all the Wupatki people weren’t that big of people. The Sunset Crater National Monument was really interesting because we walked next to a big crater. The crater wasn’t packed it was a giant pile of loose black dirt from the volcano every where there are jagged black rock that you could trip on very easily. Like when you step on it you couldn’t slide your feet on it you had up your feet or else you fall or trip. And there was a tunnel that was filled with is year round going from the top of the crater down to the bottom of it but they had it gated of cause it has collapsed a couple of times before. But they let us go down to the gate and when I got to the gate there was ice on the ground. Then we went to this spot where could see a volcano but it was really far away. I thought everything on the trip was really interesting and fun. Then we made our way back to the buses and went home.