Here we Come Tony!
Trip Start
Oct 02, 2009
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Trip End
Oct 14, 2009
Monument Valley, Utah, United States
Thursday, October 8, 2009
that goes over ah big water dam, and the whole place is high security, incase of terrorist hits. After the 30 mins Drew pics us back up & on to Monument Valley, well the outskirts are amazing.. This is one cool place, but 1st bit history of Najavo Indians. The Najavo Tribe is one of the largest tribes in North America, there reserves take up 11 million acres of land in Utah & Arizona, they live in hogans 
(mud Huts made of tree bark, wooden poles and mud) but most now live in communitys on outskirts, some do still live in Monument Valley. One thing, you cant buy sell alchohol here! why! Indians dont do well digesting achohol, too many were becoming alchoholics very quickly & violent, so they decided make the reserves ah achohol free zone. "how will i survive"! no probs. ,Any we chugg up to the visitor centre, were Navajo Indian Tony is waiting for us. Drew has told us to respect these people and there culture, ask 1st if we wish to photograph them. Soon Tony has us loaded in back of his truck, and is happily bumping us about in the back as we enter Monument valley, there was loads of jeeps touring around showing tourists around. We stopped regularly for photos and to veiw Navajo jewlery, dream catchers
& other interesting stuff. Every huge amazing rock stuckture had its own name. Tony was loving it !bumping us around in the back, at one point we went over a hilly bump and everyone went flying in the air with screams of laughter. We then stopped at what looked like a large cave with ah hole in the ceiling , i am sure they have proper names, Tony send us off exploring, then in the distance, we could here chanting and flute music, so we all ran back, Tony was chanting and playing indian music, we all just stood there silent amazement listening. When he finished, we all said how great he was, and he showed us indian paintings of animals and people on the walls. As if this was nt all enough excitement for the afternoon, we were heading for Navajo dinner, when he suddely stopped again, everyone off. we were stopped at bright red sand dune, "ok he said, shoes off" u are all going to hav a race up the sand dune", i just had to stand and video this, was too good to miss!, and what ah laugh, some fell over, some jumped with joy at the top,some did nt make it! but was a good group moment. After all this fun, it was starting to get dark, so Tony drove us to the camp, were we had a Navajo Indian dinner, it was very good, we had a indian corn bread totilla, pinto beans, spiced ground, beef, cheese and topped of with salad, served with, sour cream, salsa and soft drinks. Then we were returned to visitor centre, were we all said thanks and fairwell to Tony, & Drew collected us, to take us of to our hotel for the night. It was getting late when we arrived at the hotel after ah long day, and as were getting up 5.30am to go see sunrise over Monument Valley the next morning, it was sensible to shower and head for sleep..
