𝗔𝘄𝗲-𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗼𝗻𝗮

Our member Ms Bithi Ghosh had visited the Colorado Plateau and the Grand Canyon it is famous for. She shares the uniqueness of the place and the reason why people visit it.
In the year 2000 I had gone to visit my son who stays in Los Angeles. While staying there he had come across a very endearing person who had become a very close family friend of ours. My son used to lovingly call her American Mom. When I visited the US, I met her and she was an absolute wonderful host and took us for a visit to Arizona to see the Grand Canyon and the river Colorado.
It was an exceptional experience, as this was absolutely different from most of the places that I had visited till then. Its unique geological make with the multitude of imposing peaks, buttes, gorges, and ravines leaves you absolutely spellbound. To understand the place in its simplest way, I would say it covers a large portion of the southwestern United States and consists essentially of horizontal layered rocks and lava flows.
Deposits of various substances over millions of years like granite, limestone, sandstone etc. have created the marvellous walls of the Canyon, the exposed rocks of the Canyon wall and the branched trees metamorphosed over there are beyond explanation.
The Colorado river has created history. It with its sharp torrent of water has been able to create a path cutting through the rocks which is a marvel in itself.
Our basic intension was to witness the sunrise there. We reached there the night before. There were plenty of places available for tourists to stay. We woke up much before dawn and went to view the sunrise. What we saw was ecstatic. The early sunbeams falling on the yellowish-brown rocks around was breathtaking. The orange hues in the sky seemed to be a reflection of the land around.
The rocks of Arizona and the Colorado river with its intricate chasm is worth a visit.