Double click to enlarge the pics. We started out from the hotel and entered the park. There we drove to the east end of the canyon, Desert View, where there would be less traffic.
Check out the Colorado River. View from
east side of canyon.
Despite the coming holiday weekend, there really wasn't much traffic. We purchased a "senior" National Park pass, good for life! and only $10. Ray felt he had to swear to the attendant that I was indeed over 55.
We saw glorious sights all the way along. Many families with kids getting too near the edge for my liking. Many Germans, Italians, Asians and French tourists. No other country holds a canyon this grand.
It was hard to stop staring. Every which way we looked was another breath taking site: The magnitude, the colors, the play of light, the history of the earth laid bare before us. It makes one feel very humble. 
Natives lived in the canyons a thousand years ago. Today people hike down and back.
Tusayan Pueblo Ruin- The natives established small villages near the canyon rim at the east side about 800 years ago. From 10,000 years ago, they were hunters-gatherers, but these villages show that they were moving toward agriculture: beans, squash,corn with hunting as supplement. There are 4000 sites like this discovered so far.The stone circle is the outline of one home. 
Around 2pm we headed back to the hotel and took a break from the hot morning.Around 5 we drove back to the Canyon, this time to the south rim. We went to dinner at the Bright Angel Inn which is on the rim. After dinner we walked the rim trails waiting for sunset around 7:45. The canyon changes in every light and with every cloud.
A few sprinkles on us yielded a beautiful rainbow above the canyon!
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