Sunset Crater National Monument National Monument = National Park. Eagle food. You can't walk around just anywhere in this area, as the flora and fauna is very delicate and easily damaged, trails marked out by thousands of walkers in the early part of the last century are still clearly visible on the volcano. You are allowed up this loose and shifting cinder trail which allows great views of these mountains, the names of which I seem to have forgotten. And slightly spoiling the view, a portly Tyke. I was a bit winded after hauling myself up this hill, a couple from New England whom I got chatting to pointed out that we were at an altitude of about 8,000 feet, which is quite enough to cause moments of light headedness. Looking up at Sunser Crater. Coconino National Forest, it might not be a forest as we Europeans might understand it, but you couldn't go too far into that without a compass, with its ground level bushes, everything would look the same in any direction. Suddenly you come around a corner in the forest and the scenery changes to this, the Painted Desert. The photo really doesn't do justice to the palette of natural colours splashed across the landscape here. An Indian dwelling built from and on a red stone outcrop.