lundi 17 septembre 2007

Bandelier



Bandelier National Monument is my favourite nearby place to take visitors. It's the site of an ancient Anasazi community, with cliff-dwellings carved into the volcanic rockface. The formations themselves are beautiful, and it's one of my very favourite places. There's a cool stream and lots of Ponderosa pines nearby, so after climbing through the caves and cliff dwellings, you can walk back through the pines.
It'd on high mesa, near the San Idlefonso Pueblo, so it's high and dry and the sky is incredible. We watched a thunderstorm come in for hours. It caught us in Santa Fe, but when we drove to Albuquerque and took the tram up Sandia Mountain, we could watch it keep creeping across the state.

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