Sunday, August 24, 2014

The Wave Rock in Paria Canyon

Looks like layered cake. Simply amazing. Picture from www.independent.co.uk

Have you ever been to any place where the surrounding full with waves rocks? Here in Arizona, Paria Canyon, is the location where we can see the wave rocks. Paria means 'muddy water' where there's a location of chocolatey river. The research proved that this canyon was inhabited by the ancestors 10,000 years ago. So this place is quite historic.


People walking between the wave rock. Picture from flowboard.com

What make this wave rock unique is that there are many colours that combine together creating a dramatic rainbow of pastel yellow, chocolate and red. This place is suitable for hiking and it is one of the ways for visitors to getting know about this place even better and also experience the unique colours of wave rock. Visitors need to choose and follow the tracks given. To those people who doesn't know the existence of this wave rock will often mistaken the picture with paintings. This place is too perfect to become a painting. Visitors need to be very careful during rainy days as flash flood can occurs at this canyon.


Hollow stone from the sandstone. Picture from flowboard.com
Paria Canyon, the location of this wave rock is considered as the best location for hiking. For nature lovers, do come to this place and experience yourself with the wilderness. Those rock can be vary in terms of its spiral. That add up the uniqueness. The rock formation actually existed during Jurassic age. The Jurassic Navajo Sandstone is the most prominent in this formation. As time flies, it is believe that wind and water eroded the sandstone and thus we can see the formation right now.


Amazing formation of wave done by the nature. Picture from Google image.

The wave rock is one of the natural wonders in this world that need to be taken care off. Without all this things, we don't know about what happened to our earth million years ago. This rock is like a time-traveller rock that exposed us with its wonders and secrets.

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