Wave Valley lost the election, picked up a surprise
The Valley of Waves in the American West Tour is a point we are looking forward to, and the pictures released by various media have planted a ” big tree ” in our hearts. Wave Valley may be the park with the fewest number of visitors per day in the world. Only 20 lucky people from all over the world are admitted, ten of them are drawn by global interested parties on its official website, and ten winners are drawn every day (the admission time is officially determined) The other ten went to the Wave Valley Visitor Center to draw lots on the spot, and the winners entered the park on the same day.
Our plan is to live near the Wave Valley Visitor Center and participate in the on-site draw the next day. The night before, I rushed to the hotel to stay, found the visitor center and got off work, and posted a notice on the door that the lottery would start at 9:30 the next morning. The 4 of us carefully filled out the form and handed in the form at a table, then craned our necks to listen to the staff coming out of the office to read the signature list, watching the excited smiles of the lucky winners who were nominated for the gold list, until the ten names , needless to say the rest The sixty losers were as frustrated as we were, and the staff also warmly congratulated Yang Fanjin, who had won the lottery nine times in a row.
The four of us sighed that our lives were bad. The park stipulated that as long as one person is drawn in the same car and the same license plate number when filling out the form, the other three can enter the park together. To our surprise, all four generals were wiped out. This was a big blow to us. Full of confidence.
After leaving the visitor center, the four re-navigated to Antelope Canyon. After driving for dozens of kilometers, I suddenly saw a sign on the side of the road. I stopped the car and saw that a hill a few hundred meters away blocked my sight. I didn’t know what the scenery behind the mountain was, so I Googled it Unsolved, and there were no passing vehicles on the road, a few people discussed and went to have a look. It was still quite hot in the sun at 10 o’clock in the morning. After turning around the hill, three-color mountains and differentiated stone pillars . Some of them looked like mushrooms growing on the red soil with white stems and brown domes.
The profile of this mountain is like a cake, with a brown top, white bottom, and red.
The picture below looks like Trump with a curly lock of hair.
In this way, I tossed up and down in this unnamed valley for an hour, because I had to arrive at the Antelope Canyon before 12 o’clock, and I was still unsatisfied.
Until today, I don’t know what this valley is called. I hope that friends who have been there will let me know . If you have the opportunity to swipe for the second time, you will definitely check in perfectly.
Can Antelope Canyon replace Wave Valley?
After leaving the Unnamed Valley, the four of them put on a good mood without exception, forgetting the frustration of not being nominated for the gold list, and rushed to Antelope Canyon with high spirits. Buying tickets on the spot unanimously chose the Lower Antelope Canyon in order not to be exposed to the sun at noon. It should not be so hot to go underground. The car in the park pulled us to a rough red rocky beach, but the beautiful Red Canyon was missing. A staff member came to lead the way. The sun was so bright that we couldn’t keep our eyes open. We followed along for a while, and the person in front suddenly disappeared. When I got closer, I saw a pit mouth several square meters in size at the foot, and a rotating ladder led to the deep pit bottom.
Going down the ladder step by step, I feel a cool wind blowing in front of me, and the further down the wind, the stronger the wind. At this time, I found that the people in front were turning their heads to take pictures above our heads, and then looked back, and the entire canyon wall was red like fiery coal.
Walking and marveling while taking pictures, the canyon is very cool. At this time, a local Indian boy was very enthusiastic and came to show us where to take pictures. The child was nimble and barefoot, sometimes climbing along the corrugated canyon wall to a few meters high and squatting to help us take pictures with his mobile phone. We traveled independently and did not follow a group tour guide. The little boy won the tour guide and told us how the canyon was discovered by the cowherd ancestors in their tribe. He also told us that when it rains, the rain turns into a raging river in the canyon. , the highest can be submerged to the ground level. The boy accompanied us to the exit, and we paid ten dollars as a tip for the children.
The park controls the number of people entering the canyon very well. There are only about 30 people at a time. When you go down and spread out, you can’t see them, but you can hear the screams of Weimei from time to time.
The widest part of the canyon is about 20 square meters. We were far behind in order to take pictures, and suddenly we heard singing, soft multi-part cappella echoing in the canyon like the sound of nature. I went, it was the ghost group that entered the valley with us. Two local Indians were left playing a self-made musical instrument similar to flute. The melodious and long sound reminded me of Su Wu shepherding. Who said that music has no borders? There is such a similar rhythm in it, which is touching.
The ground at the bottom of Antelope Canyon is covered with a layer of powdery red fine sand that has slipped from the canyon wall. I didn’t feel it when I walked through the bottom of the valley. After I came out, I found that the white T-shirt cloth on my body was covered with red sand powder. wash off. I was curious about how this canyon was formed, so I checked the information when I came back. Baidu’s answer is the most concise and clear, which is attached below.
Excerpted from Baidu: Antelope Canyon, like other slot canyons, is formed by soft sandstone after millions of years of erosion. The main cause is flash flood erosion, followed by wind erosion. During the monsoon season, flash floods often flow into the canyon. Due to the sudden increase in rainfall, the flow rate of the flash flood is quite fast. In addition, the narrow channel narrows the river channel, so the vertical erosion force is also relatively large, forming the bottom of Antelope Canyon. The corridors, as well as the hard and smooth edges like flowing water on the valley walls.
Drilling back to the ground, the four of us had a lively discussion on the way to pick up the car: Can Antelope Canyon replace Wave Valley? The result of serious discussion is: no. This means that we will continue to register and draw lots on the official website, and will we continue to draw lots at the visitor center? Fan Jin fell into long thought.
(The following is the network map of Wave Valley) With such a big tree, it seems that the revolution has not yet succeeded . Fan Jin still needs to work hard.
