Trip to Sedona

We real­ly enjoyed our trip to Sedona. Sedona is a small city in Ari­zona, locat­ed 120 miles north of Phoenix towards the Grand Canyon. This is a city of stun­ning nature and amaz­ing moun­tain landscape.

The red earth of Sedona and the bizarre red rocks around the city have made it a pop­u­lar tourist des­ti­na­tion. When you get to Sedona, it seems that you have sunk to the bot­tom of the Grand Canyon, and you are sur­round­ed by gorges and moun­tains, either in the form of a bell, or in the form of cathe­drals and tem­ples, or in the form of ani­mals and groups of peo­ple. This is a favorite place for artists and enter­tain­ers. There are a lot of art gal­leries, art fes­ti­vals, jazz fes­ti­vals. Many hik­ing trails and moun­tain bike routes attract a huge num­ber of tourists. Many peo­ple from Phoenix trav­el to Sedona one day, going there in the morn­ing and back in the evening. We decid­ed to devote two days to this trip, for this we reserved a hotel for one night.

We left ear­ly on Sat­ur­day morn­ing and two hours lat­er we were there. With­out check­ing into a hotel, we went to hike in the park on red stones. To enter the park, you need to buy a pass. In Amer­i­ca, every­thing is paid except for toi­lets. Toi­lets here are free in any small shop, at any gas sta­tion. There are spe­cial equipped san­i­tary zones on the tracks, so even a child can­not be dropped off, some­where under a bush, you can earn a fine. (Digressed from the top­ic). We drove into the park, changed into Hik­ing Boots, took back­packs with water and hit the road. The walk­ing route on red stones runs along one of the most beau­ti­ful rocks, which is called the Cathe­dral Rock and end­ed on the top of the rock at the foot of the three prongs crown­ing this rock. At the bot­tom, a small riv­er-brook flowed, on the banks of which there were many vacationers.

At first we were going to walk a lit­tle and turn back, but the high­er we climbed, the more beau­ti­ful the views opened up. With thoughts that, well, let’s go a lit­tle more and turn back, we reached the end of the route. True, at the end of the path there was the most dif­fi­cult sec­tion where you had to climb, but some kind of sports pas­sion had already appeared. It is believed that there are five vor­tex zones in Sedona, where ter­res­tri­al mag­net­ism has spe­cial prop­er­ties and one of the zones is locat­ed on top of this Cathe­dral Rock. For those who have vis­it­ed these zones, almost a “third eye” opens. I’m wait­ing to see if it opens. 😊

But, know­ing from the expe­ri­ence of my climb­ing match­mak­ers that going up is eas­i­er than going down, I was very afraid of how we would go down with a child. Noth­ing, let’s go! True, the son-in-law had a load, as if he was going down with a bag of pota­toes. In the most dif­fi­cult places, I had to lit­er­al­ly car­ry the child in my arms.

Tired, but sat­is­fied with our­selves, we went to check into the hotel. In the evening, after the rest, there was a walk through the city cen­ter, where var­i­ous sou­venir shops and cafes are located.

The next morn­ing we again walked around the old part of the city, and then went to the fish farm to fish for trout.

The farm was locat­ed at the bot­tom of a small canyon and con­sist­ed of two small ponds with a foun­tain in the mid­dle. You buy a tick­et at the farm, they give you a fish­ing rod, net and bait, and you can catch the trout that teems in these ponds. Then you need to pay for the caught catch, it is cleaned and you can fry it on a barbecue.

Then you can eat it right there in the pavil­ions locat­ed around the lakes, or you can take the catch with you. Look­ing at so many fish in the pond, we thought we would catch a lot. But it was already the mid­dle of the day and the fish were already fed by a large num­ber of fish­er­men, or it was so cun­ning that it rush­es at the bait, pecks it with its nose until the bait becomes limp and falls off hook, and then quick­ly picks it up and eats it. But still, I man­aged to catch two fish, which we cleaned, put on the ice, gave a check so that we would not have any prob­lems with the catch, and we went home. Two hours lat­er we were already at home and fried a fish caught with our own hands.