The Road to Canyon De Chelly

The problem with seeing all these wonderful sights is that words fail you, so descriptions on the blog are a) difficult but unworthy of the visual experience, so the blog appears a little thin on description.
However on Saturday we bade farewell to Monument Valley and took the shortish journey to Canyon De Chelly (pronounce d'shay) across some more amazing countryside, through desert and past mountains. We actually passed 5 stumps of volcanic plugs, where the lava/basalt which filled the centre of a volcano had been left when the surrounding rock (probably ash) had been eroded away. These plugs rise up to 250 feet above the rest of the area and are quite impressive. The largest we passed was Church Rock, which does look like a church. We drove down through some narrow passages through the rocks and round the edge of sand dunes, finally descending into a valley which was at the entrance to Canyon De Chelly National Park. There is a campground here which is free, no hook ups, but then you can't expect everything. We stayed here a couple of nights so that we could visit the Canyon De Chelly.