Hard to catch with a camera are the impressive canyons at the “Dinosaur National Monument”, which by the way for the greater part is NOT a place to see the remains of dinosaurs. Those can be observed in a corner of it at the nearby “Dinosaur Quarry”. Those canyons where formed by the two rivers…
With the relative flat land in Wyoming or Utah, the horizon is far away. One side-effect of this is, that the sun goes down really low on the horizon – in contrast to the normally “high” sunset at home. Also, due to the far visibility, the cloud pattern can be observed over a long distances.…
On my way further down south, I came through some very remote and wild landscapes. Along the longer part of the way only grassland or bushes lined up with the street. It must be a very difficult trip for the first settlers to travel through these terrain’s – without modern navigation systems or freeways, that…
A bit off the main road through the park, on a secluded drive, one can catch the calm atmosphere at the Madison River.
A little bit outside the “Canyon Village” – well what other name could that place possibly have? – a fantastic canyon has been cut into the ground by the Yellowstone River. In a two stage waterfall, the river flows downstream. On its path, it cut a massive canyon into the volcanic underground, building step cliffs.…
