Before I started planning my trip to the U.S.A. I hadn’t heard of Bryce Canyon. We had planned to ‘do’ the Big Sur (route 101), Las Vegas and to take in a few national parks. When I started to investigate the region and what we could reasonably do in the 3 weeks we had available I happened across Bryce, and am very glad I did.
The small national park is a wonder of almost surreal rock formations called ‘hoodoo’s’ that are quite unlike anything I have seen anywhere else. They look a little like church organs as they are sort of joined up pillars of rock in varying colours – mainly from white to a vivid salmony pink formed when ice and rainwater wear away the softer limestone.
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