Tourist Attractions: January 2011

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Montezuma Castle Tourism Best

located near Camp Verde, Arizona, in the Southwestern United States, features well-preserved cliff-dwellings. They were built and used by the Pre-Columbian Sinagua people around 700 AD. Several Hopi clans trace their roots to immigrants from the Montezuma Castle/Beaver Creek area. Clan members periodically return to their former homes for religious ceremonies. When European Americans discovered them in the 1860s, they named them for the Aztec emperor (of Mexico) Montezuma II, due to mistaken beliefs that the emperor had been connected to their construction

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Lake Powell Best

is a reservoir on the Colorado River, straddling the border between Utah and Arizona (most of it, along with Rainbow Bridge, is in Utah). It is the second largest man-made reservoir in the United States behind Lake Mead, storing 24,322,000 acre feet (30 km³) of water when full. Lake Powell was created by the flooding of Glen Canyon by the controversial Glen Canyon Dam, which also led to the creation of Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, a popular summer destination. The reservoir is named for explorer John Wesley Powell, a one-armed American Civil War veteran who explored the river via three wooden boats in 1869. In 1972, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area was established. It is public land managed by the National Park Service, and available to the public for recreational purposes. It lies in parts of Garfield, Kane, and San Juan counties in southern Utah, and Coconino County in northern Arizona.

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Best Kartchner Caverns Park

The park encompasses most of a down-dropped block of Palaeozoic rocks on the east flank of the Whetstone Mountains in the Coronado National Forest.[citation needed] It is carved out of limestone and filled with spectacular speleothems which have been growing for 50,000 years and longer, and are still growing due to careful development and maintenance.

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Humphrey's Peak Best

is the highest point in the U.S. state of Arizona, with an elevation of 12,637 feet (3,852 m). and is located within Kachina Peaks Wilderness in Coconino County, about 11 miles (17.7 km) north of Flagstaff, Arizona. Humphreys Peak is the highest of a group of ancient volcanic peaks known as the San Francisco Peaks. The summit can be most easily reached by hiking the 4.8 miles (7.7 km) long Humphreys Trail that begins at the Arizona Snowbowl ski resort in the Coconino National Forest. The last 1 mile (1.6 km) of the trail traverses the only region of tundra in Arizona, at an elevation of more than 11,500 feet (3,505 m).
Humphreys Peak was named in about 1870 for General Andrew A. Humphreys, a U.S. Army officer who was a Union general during the American Civil War, and who later became Chief of Engineers of the United States Army Corps of Engineers. However, a General Land Office map from 1903 showed the name San Francisco Peak applied to this feature (apparently borrowed from San Francisco Mountain on which the peak stands). Thus the United States Board on Geographic Names approved the variant name in 1911. In 1933, the application of the names was rectified.

Hoover Dam Arizona

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Havasu Waterfall

or more commonly the Havasupai, are an American Indian tribe that has called the Grand Canyon its home for at least the past 800 years. Located primarily in an area known as Cataract Canyon, this Yuman-speaking population once laid claim to a land reservation the size of Delaware. In 1882, however, the tribe was forced by the federal government to abandon all but 518 acres of its land. The Havasupai witnessed a silver rush and the Santa Fe Railroad in effect destroyed what was fertile land. Furthermore, the inception of the Grand Canyon as a National Park in 1919 pushed the Havasupai to the brink, as their land was consistently being unlawfully entered and misused by the National Park Service. Over the next century the tribe used the United States judicial system to fight for the restoration of the land which had been taken from them. In 1975, after years without progress, the tribe succeeded in regaining 251,000 acres of their ancestors’ land with the passage of Congressional bill S. 1296.

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Apache Lake

is one of four artificial reservoirs created along the Salt River in central Arizona as part of the Salt River Project. The lake is located near the Apache Trail about 65 miles (104 km) northeast of Phoenix. Apache Lake was formed by Horse Mesa Dam which was completed in 1927. The second largest of the four Salt River Project reservoirs (Theodore Roosevelt Lake is the largest), Apache Lake is located about 5 miles (8 km) downstream from Theodore Roosevelt Lake and upstream from Canyon Lake and Saguaro Lake.The surface area of the lake is 2,568 acres (1,039 ha) at full capacity and it can store 254,138 acre·ft (313,475,000 m3) of water.Apache Lake is a popular recreation destination within the Tonto National Forest, which is the authority that manages the facilities located at the lake. The lake is located along the Apache Trail and a number of other hiking trails can be found in the area. Many species of fish can be found in the lake, including largemouth, smallmouth and yellow bass, crappie, sunfish, both channel and flathead catfish, walleye and carp.

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Alamo lake Park Arizona

is a 4,900-acre (2,000 ha) state park in western Arizona, located about 38 miles (61 km) north of Wenden. It is accessed via dirt road off either US 60 to the south or US 93 to the east. Owing to its remoteness and lack of paved access roads, the park is often considered one of the "best kept secrets" of the state park system.The park is centered around Alamo Lake, a flood control and recreational reservoir that serves as the focal point of the park. The park also features camping facilities, and attracts wildlife enthusiasts, as the park is home to numerous wildlife species including the bald eagle. The park's remoteness and distance from cities also makes it a target of stargazers

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Bali Tanah Lot

Tanah Lot is a tourist attraction in Bali. In this resort there are 2 temples on a large rock. Only on a boulder and the other on a cliff. Pura Tanah Lot temple is part of Dang Goda and as a temple of worship the god of the sea where marine guards.
According to legend, the Tanah Lot temple built by Nirartha, a Brahmin from Java. In the 16th century Nirartha successfully disseminate and teach Hinduism to the people of Bali and build Sad Goda. Beraben At that time, the ruler of Tanah Lot, feel envious of him because his followers to follow the teachings Nirartha. Therefore, Beraben Nirartha ordered to go from Tanah Lot. Nirartha agree. However, before he moved away chunks of rock into the middle of the beach with its strength and built temples there. He also transformed into a snake keeper shawl temples that still exist. These snakes including sea snake species that are characterized by flat like a fish-tailed, black and yellow striped and toxic 3 times more powerful than cobra. The legend ends with the story that eventually became followers Beraben Nirartha