Sunday, April 24, 2011

Canyon of the Ancients

Want to see a living museum?  My favorite travelling partner and I took a great one-day adventure into the past at the Canyon of the Ancients National Monument. One of the monument's most striking archaeological sites is the Painted Hand Pueblo, named for  handprints left in an alcove on the site. What a spectacular place. These Ancestral Puebloans had some great views.



You feel such a sense of discovery if you navigate the boulders and narrow passages along the sporadically marked route to this site.  And that's the way it should be.  When you work a little harder to get somewhere, that place is all the more special. 

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