Grand Canyon NP

Welcome to Grand Canyon National Park! Super famous and super impressive. The vast landscape is simply incredible. Besides birds we saw some Mule Deer and tons of Rock Squirrels. I had a lot of fun looking for lizards. The weather was sunny, very windy and quite chilly. Especially if you hike far enough from the parking lots / shuttle stations, the trails are way less crowded than we expected. 

Odocoileus hemionus - Mule Deer

Grand Canyon

Otospermophilus variegatus - Rock Squirrel

Grand Canyon

Rock Squirrel in front of the Canyon

Happy Couple in front of the Canyon

Sceloporus tristichus - Plateau Fence Lizard

Rock Squirrel and three Ornate Tree Lizards... can you spot them all?

Happy Couple of Ornate Tree Lizards

Grand Canyon

Urosaurus ornatus - Ornate Tree Lizard

Grand Canyon - Sunset

Arches NP

The famous Arches National Park is located very close to Moab. The scenery of the park is really fantastic but it was annoying to see so many people ignoring the "please stay on the trail" & "keep off the arches" signs. Probably the landscape in general, with all the arches, is even more photogenic than the one in Canyonlands NP, but there are also way more people roaming around. The Landscape is unique and beautiful, but to enjoy Arches NP, we recommend to get there very early in the morning. Around noon there might be long lines in front of the entrance and many selfie-people attacking the arches, ruining your pictures.

Window Arch

Elephant Butte & Double Arch

Double Arch

Balanced Rock

Sceloporus tristichus - Plateau Fence Lizard

Tunnel Arch

Garden of Eden