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80 kilometer to the state border, we reach the first large national park: "Painted Desert and Petrified Forest". The color variety of rock strata due to 250 million years old Fosilien consisting of many different crystallized minerals.
Back from the National Park we follow the Route 66 westward. Our destination today is the lovely small town Flagstaff. It is often known as the gateway to the Grand Canyon 120 kilometer north of the city.
We leave Flagstaff and the Route 66 for a trip to the world famous natural phenomenon of North America, to the huge scar in the earth's crust, the "Grand Canyon".
The Grand Canyon. The Colorado Plateau began to raise 20 million years ago and the rivers started in the underground incise. So also the Colorado River, which began 17 million years ago with its erosion to dig a 450 kilometer canyon into the rock.
The one-street village is one of the highlight of Route 66 over the entire route. In Seligman In 1940, the famous Route 66 picture by American photographer Andreas Feininger originated. Under terrific contrasted cloudscapes a hitchhiker standing in front of the advertising signs of a gas station.
Seligman 1940
Seligman 2015
In the next 150 kilometer to the west, there is no gas station on the Route66... which is still in operation ...,
In the former gold mining town of Oatman wild donkeys are running free. The animals are descendants of the donkey, who had left to their fate in their withdrawal the gold miners. In the wider area of the city to live more than a thousand more.
