Grand Canyon

Something that has to be seen while in the area. I am not really sure about what to write about it. I am sort of speechless. Not really speechless of excitement from having seen it, its more like emptiness “á-la-was-that-all?” Now I have to say that Grand Canyon was extremely beautiful and impressively big. And it is fantastic watching how the rivers have cut through the earth, revealing geology worth billions of years and it is bizarre glazing down on the Colorado River deep, deep down beneath the cliffs. An incredible experience but was it extraordinary?

I have always thought that visiting Grand Canyon should be out of this world. This is the place where the ancient native Americans lived close to the earth, filled with wisdom of life, the universe and everything. And this is the place where the history of earth is displayed billions of years back, a quite grotesque thing to imagine. Something told me that standing there on top of it, staring out over the landscape, observing the forms and shapes of the cliffs and gazing out over the birds flying over the canyon beneath you would tell me something. It would allow me to take in the ancient wisdom and I should suddenly know the answer to everything. But I don’t; that’s where the emptiness comes from.

There are many ways to experience Grand Canyon but just standing on top of it was not good enough. If anyone is thinking of going there, please consider one of the following two options; either do rafting along the canyon, there are trips available between one to eleven days (the time it takes to raft along the whole thing) or stay in the canyon a night or two camping on the bottom. Don’t do a helicopter fly-over or walk along the rim; only then can the truth be revealed.