Canyon de Chelly 1

Canyon de Chelly is deep in Navajo country, and this canyon houses current Navajo families (who farm here in the summer) and many of the ancestors of the Anasazi (cliff dwellings and petroglyphs).
We booked ourselves onto a guided jeep tour into the valley yesterday and then did the overlooks today before we carried on to Tuba City.
We were in an open air vehicle driven by Harold, who is Navajo and very knowledgeable.  Only certified guides are allowed into the Canyon.  The drive was somewhat hair raising as we traveled through rivers, mud, sandy, rutted pathways, with many stops to see the highlights.   The neat thing was that Harold used a small hand mirror to draw out attention to the pictographs and petroglyphs along the canyon walls.  We also visited several Anasazi cliff dwellings, and although we were not actually allowed into them, we could still get quite close.