8h00: Departure to Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado where we spend the whole day.
This national park was created in 1906 by President Theodore Roosevelt in order to "preserve the works of man." This was the first national park of this type.
Mesa Verde is English for "green table". The Ancestral Pueblo people has made his home in the year 600 to 1300 or for 700 years. Today the site protects over 4,000 known archaeological sites including 600 cliff dwellings in the cliffs. This site is among the finest and best preserved of the USA.
The cave dwelling is present in an architecture consisting of different traditions to construct habitats underground or dug in the rock often limestone mountainside as is the case in Mesa Verde.
The rangers, translate "rangers" We asked if there was such archaeological sites in France. To their surprise we responded in the affirmative stating again "But You know, we're a year old continent" that is to say, "You know, we're an old continent."
For all our information, there are actually sites of cave dwellings in Anjou, Saumur and Touraine to mention only the main and we are also a number in Italy, Mali, Turkey, the Netherlands and China. Some of these houses are also still inhabited today. Their galleries are some in the culture of our famous mushroom of Paris and also serve wine cellar ...
Returning to this population wren Mesa Verde. It has not disappeared. Indeed, she migrated to southern New Mexico and Arizona and their descendants, the Pueblo, still live there today.
The park itself, it covers over 21,000 hectares and protects a wide variety of natural resources. For the fact is also a center for study of ecosystems. The climate is semi-arid. Geological formations visible date from the Cretaceous era, there are 90 million years.
The landscape is fabulous with its rocks and canyons on the backdrop of high snow-capped mountains. I think that Julian will put in the hours following a few pictures to help you enjoy the site.
In any case, we took it in his eyes!
you tomorrow! Christine
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