Garden of the Gods! not a garden full of flowers!!! Instead a natural rock formation

1. Stunning rock garden 2. Gateway rocks 3. Kissing Camels

Our young contributor, eleven-year-old Marsha lives with her in the USA. Her extra-curricular activities are mainly swimming and playing piano. She plays piano for talent shows and local charitable dinners and concerts. Her hobbies are reading, competing in essay-writing contests, dancing to the tunes of Hindi Movie songs, biking and hiking.
She is a competitive swimmer and a team-member of a swim club. She bagged the runner-up award in Southeastern Summer League Championship Meet of 2004. Throughout the league, in 7 different meets, she competed in 24 events and stood first in 22 of them. She has won a gold, silver and bronze medal in photography competitions, silver medal in essay-writing competition, and gold medal in visual arts competition, which is held by the City school system for the city wide schools. In January 2004, she did a solo lamp dance for “Devdas” song “Silsila hai chahat ka”, for her school’s talent show. She got a thunderous applause. Sadly, there is no prize for talents shows in their school, although people are still talking about Indian dance performance!
She also did a solo dance with fusion outfit for “Chale Jaise and It’s the time to disco" for her school’s talent show. Again she got a thunderous applause. People have been asking about what she will do after her studies !
Marsha has received the President's Award for Education Excellence, accompanied by a letter from President Bush and a President Physical Fitness award, Accelerated reader award (that's for reading highest average book level in the fifth Grade), Best Altar Server (for performing the best job at the altar), Achievement award at her school. Her classmates voted her the most trustworthy person.
She got a second place championship trophy in summer swim league and 3rd place championship trophy in summer open swimming competition. Later she won 2nd place Individual Championship medal at the 2005 annual IRON-KIDS trianthlon (swim, bike and run) competition. Also recently she played piano at a local fund-raising event.
Marsha occasionally finds time off her busy study schedule to write a travelogue. Her earlier write-ups have received rave reviews from our readers of www.daijiworld.com - Editor-in-chief
October 28, 2005
The name of the park is Garden of the Gods! And indeed, it is!But, guess what! It’s not a garden with flowers! Instead it’s a garden full of capricious rock formations!
This park is nestled at the base of Pike Peak Mountains (14,110 ft elevation), where the great plains of Colorado spring meet the majestic Rocky mountains!
If you visit this park, make sure to watch the 12 minutes multi-media presentation on big screen projector screen, where you will learn all about the history and geology of the park, especially about how those towering red-rock formations got there!
For me, it was just fascinating to learn about how these rock formations began about 300 million years ago with erosion, volcanoes, forces of wind and rain gradually stripping away the softer layers of sedimentary rocks and sculpturing in o different shapes of rocks around the park of the “Garden of the Gods”. One cannot describe enough about the breath-taking natural beauty of this park. Many books have been written about this park. Some claim that these rock formations around the park site were the sacred ground for Native Americans. Many researchers have studied these rocks for years.
Some of the rocks around the park have been given fanciful names. Rocks like Gateway Rocks, Balanced Rock, Kissing Camels, and Siamese Twins are most popular among the many. It is one of the stunning natural wonders on earth and it is one of the most unique parks that I have visited in the United States of America.