Lower Antelope Canyon

Our tour of Lower Antelope Canyon was canceled on Sunday due to flooding, but we were able to reschedule for Monday.

We had an amazing time. Our guide, a young Native American woman named Jo, was wonderful. She was cheery, relaxed, patient, and everything you could want in a guide. Informative, too.

Entering the canyon.

Lower Antelope Canyon is quite different from Upper Antelope Canyon.

First of all, we walked to the entrance of Lower Antelope Canyon rather than drove. Second, Lower Antelope Canyon involved climbing up and down ladders, both to get into and out of the canyon as well as while we were walking through it. And whereas the floor of Upper Antelope Canyon was fairly wide, the passageways of Lower Antelope Canyon were much tighter.

The toe holes in the rock face on the left are how people used to climb this wall. They would use the toe holes and pull themselves up with a rope.
The man and child in the photo above were foreign tourists. Greg and I never did figure out what language they were speaking.
Can you see the face of the Indian woman with her hair blowing back in the photo above?
None of these photos were edited. I don’t know how we got such beautiful colors.
This photo (above) shows how narrow and maze-like much of the canyon was.
Can you see the face of the Indian chieftain in the rock on the left?
To get out of the canyon, we had to climb a set of stairs. This is what the slot canyon looked like from outside.

After our tour of Lower Antelope Canyon, we headed back to the campground and relaxed for the rest of the day. (Well, aside from one quick trip to the grocery store.)

There is so much more we could have done while we were staying in Page, but it was really nice to just relax around our campsite much of the time.

Onward to the Grand Canyon!

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Author: Nancy OBrien

I am a wife, mother, and grandmother, eternally curious and trying to live her best life.

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