Mesa Verde Colorado

For safety, the people of this time would look for cracks high in the canyon wall, and then build their homes into the cracks. They would either climb up the sheer walls to get to these homes, climb up woven ropes, or construct ladders.

The site is only open spring to fall, and it is GORGEOUS. Page through my photos for a virtual tour, and definitely get out to see it for yourself if you can! Here is an example. In the below picture, the arrow points at a half-moon shaped opening on the cliff face. There is an entire village of houses in there, going deep back into the face of the cliff.

Here's another village, closer up. This image below isn't on the ground. This village is in a crack, very high up in a cliff face. Those are tree tops you see in the front area, on a steep slope.

We arrived here the night before and stayed in their Kiva room network, which was lovely. VERY comfy. We then spent an entire day here and slept at the Kiva again. Even with a full day start-to-end, we only saw half of the main route of roads, and didn't even go into the two main village areas first-hand. You can easily spend a long weekend here, if not longer!

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