On Mon, Oct 9th we camped at the Homolovi State Park in AZ. This happened to be Indigenous Peoples' Day in the US, so we were in a place used for hundreds of years by the indigenous people. The site has several large ruins dating from around the year 600, up to about 1400. It is thought that the people here migrated northward to the buttes and mesas that the Hopi occupy today. Some of the walls and kivas have been excavated, and others are just barely visible jutting out of the soil. There are numerous shards of pottery all around the sites. We also saw several groups of wild burros on the site.
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Wild burros at Homolovi State Park
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The next morning we took the road less traveled up through the Hopi and Navajo reservations. We stopped for lunch at the Little Painted Desert. The colors are more subtle than the more well known Painted Desert, but very pretty - the camera doesn't pick up the subtle colors as well. And we were the only people there.
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Little painted desert
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We continued on to find the edge of Coal Mine Canyon. The canyon rim is on Navajo land, but the bottom is on Hopi land. We hiked out to the rim and the view was spectacular. And there were no other people there but us.
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Coal Mine Canyon - Elena kept telling me to take a step back, but I didn't fall for it.
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Coal Mine Canyon
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| Coal Mine Canyon in AZ |
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- Paul
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