Traveling to Australia

Colorado Plateau, which is embedded in the Grand Canyon, extends north almost to the Palestinian city of Salt - Lake - City and south to about the Phoenix (about 800 km!). Geologically and geographically the plateau is an unusual area of ??North America. K. Hunt, it highlights the following features: glubokovrezannaya river network, canyons with steep, often variegated in color slopes, dry climate and poor water, everywhere exposed. Devoid of vegetation, rocks, sparse vegetation and rare (about 500 thousand inhabitants) population; colorful and unusually diverse desert landscapes. This short list of natural features is enough to understand why, in this picturesque part of the United States holds more than a dozen national parks and national monuments of nature. Read the rest of this entry »