Our Kingly Expedition: Lower Antelope Canyon

We've been told multiple times that we must see Antelope Canyons while we're in Page. So we did! After doing research (aka, a quick Google search), we opted for Lower Antelope instead of Upper because Lower is cheaper, less crowded, deeper, and you get to climb ladders and steps. We chose Dixie Ellis Tours and had a great experience.

Reasons to go:

#1. It's stunning, beyond words or pictures.

#2. Our Navajo Indian was extremely knowledgeable at explaining every little bump. Plus, all my good pictures he took!

#3. It's just downright fun to be 100 feet in the earth and look waaaaay up and see the sky!

#4. Climbing all the ladders is great exercise and the children thought it a great adventure.

Reasons I would have a hard time going again:

#1. People. So many people. While we were the only ones in our group, we were waiting on the group right in front of us and had another group crowding us from the back. This was at 8:45 on a Thursday in February!

#2. My pictures are an embarrassment. Our guide adjusted the settings on my camera but it still did a terrible job. If I had it over to do with, I would have put the camera away and just totally soaked up my time in the canyon.

#3. Cost. Makayla was the only child we had to pay for and our tour cost $135.

6 flights of steep stairs to get to the bottom!

Lots of places were even more narrow then this!

Numerous flash floods hit the canyon every year and then they have to close it and clean out sand and rocks. When it completely floods, water at the bottom is flowing through at 90 miles an hour!

Ethan refused to look for every single picture :).

See Clark the Shark from Nemo?

So many cool waves!

The canyon changes with each flood. As it wears and breaks away in places, in also deposits sand and minerals in other places. So basically, it self-repairs!