Thu, Oct 4th - Monument Valley Tour

Today many of us went on a Goulding's Tour of Monument Valley. Here are some pictures of our tour.

Our transportation.

This is a Native American making yarn from sheep's wool. Their houses are called a "Hogan" where the door always faces the east in order to greet the morning sun. It is octagon shaped inside and covered with the red powder like dirt mixed with water and sun baked in the sun, so that the outside makes it look round. Our Native American tour guide is in red. See picture below.

Here's a picture of an arch OR the "Sun's Eye" with eye lashes.

Now this is called "The Thumb" OR:

"John Wayne's Boot"

Here's a picture of some of the Petroglyphs that were etched in the stone using bighorn sheep antlers or antlers from other animals, like elk. If the Petroglyph had alot of animals, it meant that there were alot of that kind of animal in the area and it was good hunting.

"Ear of the Wind"

This is a picture of Russian Thistle or Tumbleweed. When we had a windy day, you could see this tumbleweed blowing around.

Along the tour, many stands were set up so we could shop for Native American jewelry at a very reasonable price!

This rock formation is called "The Three Sisters-Faith, Hope and Charity".

Here a horseman is posing for us. Doesn't this look just like a scene out of an old western? Many movies were made here in Monument Valley.

This is the tarantula that we saw!

Can't you just see a western being filmed here!

Here we are in front of the "Totem Pole" rock. They have used a helicopter to put vehicles on top of the totem pole rock for commercials.

Now isn't this just a beautiful picture of Monument Valley!