Bandelier National Monument New Mexico
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Canyons along the New Mexico roads on our way to Bandelier National Monument
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Driving through New Mexico
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Canyons of New Mexico
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Canyon views on our way to Bandelier
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Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico, home to Ancestral Tewa Pueblo People dating back to before
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The Pueblos built homes of volcanic rock and adobe (mud), cultivating fields in the open canyons below.
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Hiking the Frijoles Canyon Trail, also known as the “Main Loop Trail” in Bandelier Nat. Monument
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Rock wall foundations, beam holes and cavates carved into tuff form upper floors
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The Trail takes you through many archeological sites
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Remains of village of Tyuonyi in Frijoles Canyon
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Ladders along the trail allow \visitors to climb into Cavates (small human-carved alcoves)
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Remains of a “Kiva”, a ceremonial structure of the Puebloan people
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Cave Dwellings
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Perhaps a “Puebloan” Monument at Bandelier
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Part of a dwelling known as the “Long House”
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Cave dwellings with beam holes and cavates carved into tuff
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Cave Dwelling
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Hiking back to the Visitor’s Center in “Frijoles” Canyon