Would you folks like me to post one?
Tsankawi is fascinating. It has foot paths carved into the limestone. The paths are very narrow and can be quite deep. And, in the steeper slopes, the foot holes for climbing are well wron in. Atop the mesa, above the cliff dwellings, are ruins of a house-building people and there are bits of pottery strewn around.
Have any of you visited the one at Montezuma?
Have you been there littlek? It sounds fascinating indeed,
worthwile a trip.
Yes cicerone, go ahead.
I have, it's a couple 10s of feet off the ground, accessable with ladders?
Cicerone, you mean the Montezuma Castle between Phoenix
and Flagstaff? Yes, I' ve been there. That's a very interesting
place too.
CJ _ have been there. I liked it more, in some ways, than the cleanly excavated sites of bandelier and chaco.
littlek, I like all the places pertaining to the Indians.
I've vistited some indian reservations in New Mexico and
am just fascinated with them.
I visited a couple of pueblos when I visited NM, but I was the only visitor which made it kind of awkward.
I visited the Pueblo reservation as well in NM, also Gallup NM,
and I visited in southwestern Arizona the Pima reservations,
up in Flagstaff vicinity are some small reservations I visited
too. I'm just intrigued with them....
Cic, that could be weird, going alone. Going at all always made me feel uncomfortable.
CJ - Did you take a tour? Just drive in and look around?
I felt a little less odd on the Navajo reservation than I did on the Cochiti rez. I think the Navajo rez is so big that they will hire white for odd jobs to help out, so I felt I stood out just a little bit less. In Cochiti, they hardly looked at me, even the owner of the little store I went into didn't seem to want me there.
I don't travel in tours littlek, we just drove into the reservations
and spoke to the people. Mostly I bought some souvenirs
and indian jewelery. I did not feel awkward, just excited,
and I guess the Indian noticed and we were invited to one
of the houses and offered some food.
We've had in Germany an old writer (he's dead) named
Karl May and he wrote many stories about the Indians. Just
about every child in Germany has read his stories and
loves the Indians. Karl May would be equivalent to Mark Twain
and his stories of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer.
cicerone, didn't you want to post a picture?
Oh, okay, this should be easy.
...and are these your daughters cicerone?
ruins again <sigh> Middle East?
Yup, I knew it was easy, but... Okay, satt, your turn. The reason I posted this picture is the simple fact that most people only see the Parthenon whe they see pictures of Athens. This is on the way up to see the Parthenon. BTW, those are not my daughters, although I'd adopt them in a sec. LOL
This is very difficult. Simply the country name is required.
