Lower Antelope Canyon was a very short drive from our hotel in Page.

So that’s what we decided to try, though I was worried that it’d be hard to get a spot on a tour if I had nothing booked in advance. The website for Ken’s Lower Antelope Canyon tours tells you to just show up. Next came the question – do you book in advance? Or just show up? I didn’t want to get all the way to Page and not be able to see the slot canyon. I did more research and found that thankfully, there are light beams that come through Lower Antelope Canyon as well. I still wanted to see the Upper canyon, though, because that one beam of light that I saw in that one photo was taken in the Upper section. I also learned that if you pay more and bring a tripod with you (strange requirement, but sort of understandable since it’s a bit darker down there and it helps to stop down to capture all of that amazing detail) you can go on a self-guided tour of Lower Antelope Canyon – but the same isn’t possible for the Upper canyon.

I started researching Upper Antelope Canyon vs Lower Antelope Canyon (Hazdistazí in Navajo) and learned that apparently Upper Antelope Canyon gets way too crowded. I think a while later, my friend Sarah shared a photo of her visit to Antelope Canyon, and I realized, “wow! people actually go there! I want to do it too!” Upper or Lower Antelope Canyon? I think I must have seen a photo a number of years back of a narrow canyon with smooth yet gnarled, orange and purple striated sandstone walls that ended in abrupt jagged corners and a beam of volumetric light from above illuminating a small space on the ground. And not only that, but there are two separate Antelope Canyons?! Researching Antelope Canyon was kind of funny to me, because I thought to myself, “wow, this place really exists!” Funny because it seemed to be a mystical place not from this planet.

This post contains photos from my trip with a guided tour from Ken’s Tours that I experienced with my dad. When you start looking up information about visiting Antelope Canyon, one of the first things that you will discover is there is an Upper and Lower portion of the slot canyon.

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