the grand canyon

The Grand Canyon, which covers an area of the total area of nearly 3 square kilometers, is a world famous natural heritage in Arizona, America, and no one can get a full picture of the Grand Canyon except from a very high altitude overlooking such a spectacle. Because of the river  flows through it, so the Grand Canyon is also named the Colorado Canyon.

Although every year, more than 3,000,000 people come to see the Grand Canyon,  the very spectacle is out still beyond imagination. Even though there are some videos and pictures available on the Internet, these cannot get you fully prepared for the Grand Canyon as the beauty of the scenery is beyond description.

At more than one mile deep, it’s an inconceivable abyss; at between four and eighteen miles wide it’s an endless expanse of bewildering shapes and colors, glaring desert brightness and impenetrable shadow, stark promontories and soaring, never-to-be-climbed sandstone pinnacles.

The Skywalk

Somehow it’s so impassive, so remote that you could never call it a disappointment, but at the same time many visitors are  left feeling peculiarly flat. In a sense, none of the available activities can quite live up to that first stunning sight of the chasm. The overlooks along the rim offer views that shift and change unceasingly from dawn to sunset. You can hike down into the depths on foot or by mule, or hover above in a helicopter, or raft through the whitewater rapids of the river itself. You can spend a night at Phantom Ranch on the canyon floor, or swim in the waterfalls of the idyllic Havasupai Reservation. Yet that distance always remains the Grand Canyon stands apart.

The spices resource there is very rich. There are about 1,737 known species of vascular plants, 167 species of fungi, 64 species of moss and 195 species of lichen found in Grand Canyon National Park.There are 15 rodents and eight bats.

However, pollution poses a threat to the continued existence of this species. The Grand Canyon has suffered some problems with air pollution, attributed to the nearby Navajo Generating Station, a coal-burning power plant.