Bandelier National Monument New Mexico

: Canyons along the New Mexico roads on our way to Bandelier National Monument

: Driving through New Mexico

: Canyons of New Mexico

: Canyon views on our way to Bandelier

: Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico, home to Ancestral Tewa Pueblo People dating back to before

: The Pueblos built homes of volcanic rock and adobe (mud), cultivating fields in the open canyons below.

: Hiking the Frijoles Canyon Trail, also known as the “Main Loop Trail” in Bandelier Nat. Monument

: Rock wall foundations, beam holes and cavates carved into tuff form upper floors

: The Trail takes you through many archeological sites

: Remains of village of Tyuonyi in Frijoles Canyon

$Ladders along the trail allow \visitors to climb into Cavates (small human-carved alcoves)$: Ladders along the trail allow \visitors to climb into Cavates (small human-carved alcoves)

: Remains of a “Kiva”, a ceremonial structure of the Puebloan people

: Cave Dwellings

: Perhaps a “Puebloan” Monument at Bandelier

: Part of a dwelling known as the “Long House”

: Cave dwellings with beam holes and cavates carved into tuff

: Cave Dwelling

: Hiking back to the Visitor’s Center in “Frijoles” Canyon