Days 13-14 - Monument Valley, Flagstaff and the Grand Canyon
After breakfast at the hotel, we depart Durango. Familiar from a
hundred westerns, the rugged landscape of Utah's Monument Valley is
one of America's defining images and we discover it today as we
pass through en-route to Flagstaff. On Day 14 we
head along the legendary Route 66 to the town of Williams, where we
join the Grand Canyon Railway. We travel in carriages hauled by
historic locomotives to the Grand Canyon to see one of the world's
most awe-inspiring sights. The canyon, created by the Colorado
River over a period of 6 million years, is 277 miles long, up to 18
miles wide, and a mile deep. We arrive at the South Rim and main
viewpoint of the Canyon.