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Bryce Canyon Pictures, utah, USA

Hoodoo you do? Looking down into part of Bryce Canyon National Park from just below the rim, at sunrise.

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Bryce is a totally magical place and one of Bugbog's two favourite must-see national parks, a Utah fairyland of madly eroded pinnacles known as Hoodoos that assume different forms according to the light and viewer's elevation.
Although there are hikes elsewhere in this park, the primary must-walks are a] around the rim and b] below the rim, in the bowl or canyon - though it doesn't look much like a canyon to the BugForce.
A rim walk is fairly easy with no huge changes in elevation but constantly changing views and scenic overlooks, and can vary from a few hundred feet [400m] to 11 miles [18kms] long, depending on fitness and time available.
Hikes below the rim are a little more challenging since the hiker starts on the rim and descends a couple of hundred feet to Hoodoo ground level and needs to ascend later. But no big deal and the sights from below are even more spectacular than from the rim. Walks under the rim stretch from a mile or two [3kms] up to 23 miles [32kms].
Bryce Canyon's main global competitor is probably Turkey's 'fairy chimneys' in Cappadocia which are less shapely, less colourful, more commercial and crisscrossed with roads - though they do have historical interest in that they were used as fortress housing many years ago.
Bryce has campgrounds and lodges nearby, but all are well hidden in trees beyond the rim, so even from high rim overlooks nothing is visible or audible but nature in all its weird glory. In the summer a free shuttle bus [mid May - mid Sept] runs visitors between key locations.

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