Sedona and its surrounding northern Arizona badlands are the latest travel destination featured by www.Travel-Wise.com. Canadian travel writer Margaret Deefholts offers readers her first-hand account
May 16, 2005 (Press Release) --
Canyon Diabolo meteor cratersite is the world's largest 'hole' created by a 40,000 mile an hour impact generating a force greater than 20 million tons of TNT. The resulting landscape is 550 feet deep and 20 football fields wide.
"Northern Arizona's badlands are a surreal landscape of ochre canyons and sand-colored mesa, of splintered cacti and sagebrush. This part of Arizona has remained unchanged for millennia," reports travel writer Margaret Deefholts in a new travel story at www.Travel-Wise.com.
Her review of Sedona, Arizona and its surrounding canyons, meteor crater and petrified forest offers great travel tips to any traveler looking to visit this southwestern city and state in the USA.
Deefholts notes that "Hollywood’s imagination has been fired by the Arizona crater: the 1979 movie Meteor starring Sean Connery and Natalie Wood was filmed here; and Star Man with Jeff Bridges and Karen Allen told the story of an alien who was picked up from the floor of the crater by a space ship."
She wonders, however, if the sheer unpredictability of a cosmic event of this magnitude could happen again, and if so, are there early warning systems in place?
"As I stand on the rim of a gigantic circular hollow gouged into the barren earth, an Arizona desert wind ruffles my hair and whispers secrets of ancient cataclysmic upheavals of earth and fire. It tells of an event 50,000 years ago that created what lies far, far below my viewing platform: the largest meteor crater on Earth," says Deefholts.
Fortunately many of her questions are answered by staff at the adjoining Meteor Crater Learning Centre above the cratersite.
For more details on Sedona, Arizona as well as thousands of other destinations around the world, visit www.Travel-Wise.com - where smart travelers come first. New travel reviews by professional travel writers are featured each week at this leading travel website.
"Northern Arizona's badlands are a surreal landscape of ochre canyons and sand-colored mesa, of splintered cacti and sagebrush. This part of Arizona has remained unchanged for millennia," reports travel writer Margaret Deefholts in a new travel story at www.Travel-Wise.com.
Her review of Sedona, Arizona and its surrounding canyons, meteor crater and petrified forest offers great travel tips to any traveler looking to visit this southwestern city and state in the USA.
Deefholts notes that "Hollywood’s imagination has been fired by the Arizona crater: the 1979 movie Meteor starring Sean Connery and Natalie Wood was filmed here; and Star Man with Jeff Bridges and Karen Allen told the story of an alien who was picked up from the floor of the crater by a space ship."
She wonders, however, if the sheer unpredictability of a cosmic event of this magnitude could happen again, and if so, are there early warning systems in place?
"As I stand on the rim of a gigantic circular hollow gouged into the barren earth, an Arizona desert wind ruffles my hair and whispers secrets of ancient cataclysmic upheavals of earth and fire. It tells of an event 50,000 years ago that created what lies far, far below my viewing platform: the largest meteor crater on Earth," says Deefholts.
Fortunately many of her questions are answered by staff at the adjoining Meteor Crater Learning Centre above the cratersite.
For more details on Sedona, Arizona as well as thousands of other destinations around the world, visit www.Travel-Wise.com - where smart travelers come first. New travel reviews by professional travel writers are featured each week at this leading travel website.
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