The Phoenix and Sedona Photo gallery has Arizona vacation photos from 2007. These include the Sonoran Desert in Phoenix, and views from a mountaintop with an abandoned gold mine, along with the gorgeous red rocks of Sedona, and the nearby Verde Canyon Railway.
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This is just a nice, peaceful spot on the mountaintop. This is the mountain that housed the abandoned gold mine. |
Inside the mine - that's our tour guide, from Carefree Adventures, showing the veins of gold in the rock walls. |
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We went horseback riding in the Tonto National Forest, in the Sonoran Desert in Phoenix. Cave Creek Outfitters provided the guide, and were great to work with.
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This type of cactus, the Saguaro, is commonly used in depictions of the southwest - but it actually exists only in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona. There is a bird nesting in the cactus. We also ran into a rattlesnake on the trail, and had to go around it! |
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The red rocks are filled with iron, and the scenery is spectacular. Every turn in the road brought another great view - I have dozens of photos, and none really show the beauty of these rock formations. |
The Verde Canyon Railway does a scenic ride through the canyon (about an hour from Sedona); you cannot travel from one place to another on the train. But the scenery is great. At some points, you are on a trestle bridge high above the canyon; at others, you travel along the canyon floor.
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Notice the change in the color of the rocks (grey on the left, red on the right). This is a fault line! (Show that to your kids!)