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By Rene And Nathan Malis Grand Canyon

The Grand Canyon was a magnificent site. It is one of the Seven Wonders of the World; it is the biggest attraction in Arizona. There are many interesting facts about the Grand Canyon a few of them are, the Grand Canyon is a mile deep, used to be a sea but after millions of years the water level started to go down. At the same time the salt water would wear away at the sandstone and start to form a crevice and after millions of years it continued and we now have the Grand Canyon. This is still moving lower and lower into the earth. It takes a good deal of the day just to reach the bottom walking on the path we walked on. Originally the Grand Canyon was used as a mine and that’s why a path was made. So miners could wheel their cart of ore to the top. This ended up costing more money to do then what they were making so the soon the mines were deserted. There was one mine for uranium that was closed off and a fence was put up around it of the radius that was believed to be safe and not be affected by the radiation ( which now was found that the fence was still to close to the mine). After the mines were abandoned people started to visit the Grand Canyon and they saw a great opportunity here. The old miners then became tour guides because they knew the most about the canyon and knew how to get around the canyon safely.



Colorado River Trip

Glen Canyon is another wonderful site. It is not quit as popular as the Grand Canyon personally I didn’t know about it until the river boat ride. We still learned a lot from our great tour guide. Glen Canyon was a lot like the Grand Canyon. Its rock on the sides of the canyon were made of sandstone, it too started from a sea that slowly wore away at the ground to form a crevice. Some of the interesting facts of this canyon are Glen Canyon has only one real rapid that is consider on a scale of 1 to 6 a negative 2 so it is definitely safe there. Another cool thing there is that Glen Canyon was made by people. After there was a crevice deep enough to make a canyon a small river was running through it then people came and created a dam which made the river even bigger therefore made Glen Canyon River.

Wupaki National Monument



Wupaki is a Nation Monument with Indian ruins built by the ancient Pueblo People almost 900 years ago. What we did there was talk about the history of the Pueblo People and took some time to look at the hand made buildings. Wupaki in Navajo means “House of enemies.” One of the most interesting things I learned was the Indians played a game almost similar to basketball in a ballcourt made out of stone.

Sunset Crater National Monument



Sunset Crater is a Nation Monument packed with craters, rocks, and cinders. What we did here was take a hike around the crater and talk about how the volcanoes formed around this area. Sunset Crater elevation is 8,042 feet. The dirt is black because it is cooled lava. The last eruption was about 900 years ago. I thought this was amazing because I have not seen a crater this big before.