Navajo National Monument in Northern Arizona is a place I visited years ago and inspired my song “Navajo Wind” on my album “Heading West”. It is a remote and incredibly quiet place, where the remains of the Anasazi (“Ancient Ones”) cliff dwellings are preserved by the Navajo Nation tribe. Nobody knows for sure why these people left or where they went, but when you gaze out across the valley at their homes in the rock and the surrounding desolate landscape you can only imagine what their lives must have been like.
Mike Howe 
As an easterner, I’m floored by the west’s beauty. Great pictures, Mike!
Thank you, the east is wonderful too, we spent time in Connecticut and that has it’s own special beauty, but the west does spectacular a little more often I suppose!
This area is simply stunning. I have visited Canyon de Chelley in NE Arizona several times, and each time I am overwhelmed by a spiritual sense that I have encountered almost nowhere else. So glad you were able to visit again.
I couldn’t have put the experience better myself Emilie 🙂
The history and heritage of the native Americans is so fascinating. It is also a sad one. And a proud one.
It is Bente, of course we only get a glimpse at places like that, but it’s a wonderful experience to see, smell and hear the landscape
We love Navajo National Monument and you have captured them beautifully. It was wonderful to know that they inspired you to write a lovely song.
Oh it is so beautiful isn’t it? One of my favourite places, glad you love it too 🙂
You’ve done an excellent job in photographing that area, Mike!
Thanks Terry, it wasn’t difficult, it was all so beautiful!
It looks so peaceful. It’s wonderful how your music reflects the beauty and calmness of the nature so well!
That is a lovely compliment Elina thank you 🙂
Amazing!
It was Karen, a really lovely inspiring place 🙂
Those homes hewn in the rock face are fascinating.
They really are Colline, and in such a remote, quiet, arid landscape. They look like they were abandoned just yesterday, and yet there they have stood unused for hundreds and hundreds of years. Fascinating is definitely the word 🙂
Surely I am not really made for the desert… yet, there are so many beautiful places worth visiting. This is surely one of them and on my “to see” list.
How wonderful that you got to visit there the second time, Mike! 😀
Hope you and your family are acclimatizing (correct word?) well back in the British time zone.
Much love!
It was so wonderful to go back there Steffi, it is such a serene peaceful place and the Navajo are really friendly. It was bakingly hot though, perhaps a late autumn or early spring visit would suit you better 🙂
I hear you, Mike. I’ve seen a few places around the Northern Pueblos of New Mexico and found it pretty hot in late spring – fortunately the cars had air-condition. 😉 But I also noticed that the desert and its sacred places have their own energy, which feels exactly like you described it. 🙂
Isn’t it amazing all the unique things there are to see in the world. Great post!
It’s a really lovely and evocative place Anneli, so glad we took the time to go back after so many years
How close are you able to get to the cave dwellings? They look fascinating.
You can’t get any closer than the other side of the valley because this is a sacred site. The Navajo run it and it’s beautiful and friendly, and the trail down to the viewing point is lovely, although extremely hot! (not complaining, winter will be back with us soon enough) 🙂