Utah – a State of Contrasts - Part 3

(sara & chrisch) Bryce Canyon
This is national park impresses with many sandstone hoodoos arranged in a halve circle called the amphitheater. From a ranger we learnt that this park doesn’t’ deserve its name since there is no river. Nevertheless, of all interesting rock formation we saw In Utah we liked those in Bryce the most. We did along hike, the loop of eight with really spectacular views from different perspectives. We stopped many times, not due the high altitude, but to take pictures. Nearly no effort was too big to get the perfect shoot.

The other thing worth to mention about Bryce is the extreme of temperatures. While the temperature reached close to 100° F (40° C) it was below freezing in the night.

Last but not least Zion, the promised land
Zion is with about three million visitors per year the most  frequented national park in Utah. Due to the many different attractions, the presence of trees and the Virgin River we loved it the most.
We walked upstream through the Narrows, where we drowned one of our Cameras, luckily the one which had already some defects.

We hiked all the way up to observation point which provided a great overview of the whole valley and steep sandstone cliffs on both side. And on the last day, we climbed the Angles Landing trail, a really exposed hike up on a narrow ridge to a high cliff. On the way back, we met some of Saras former working colleagues from Tafers, where she worked four years ago.