Descend into remote, magnificent Canyon de Chelly National Monument with a Navajo guide on this 4-day hiking adventure. Discover a sacred desert landscape of enigmatic ruins and vaulting sandstone walls tattooed with petroglyphs. Join expert REI guides and a small group of fellow curious travelers in Phoenix and head for the Navajo Nation. Wander otherworldly purple-blue badlands of Blue Mesa in Petrified Forest National Park. Pause at a trading post active since 1878. Camp on the rim of Canyon de Chelly, marveling at how sunset light seems to transmute the red-orange walls into gold. Humans have lived here for over 4,000 years. Descend slickrock trails to the canyon floor, where cottonwoods and peach trees green the banks of a serpentine waterway. Accompanied by a local Navajo guide, spend three days exploring Canyon de Chelly, Canyon del Muerto and Black Rock Canyon. Let native history, stories and lore connect you to the cultural importance of the land. Search for prehistoric petroglyphs. Stand in awe of pictographs, ancient cliff dwellings and iconic ruins, including the ruins of Antelope House, just yards from our campsite. Let the solitude and grandeur of this extraordinary place seep into your soul.