Mesa Verde - A stumble through time

We've been lucky enough to travel to many places around the globe. We've seen the ruins in Rome and Athens. We've wandered through the walled cities in Croatia and explored the massive Hindu and Buddhist temples in Indonesia. And I've gazed upon the pyramids and temples in both Egypt and Mexico. But we were in for a completely different experience at Mesa Verde National Park.

Mesa Verde protects and preserves some of the best Ancestral Puebloan archeological sites in the world. The Ancient Pueblo peoples farmed up on top of the mesa and as they grew in size they needed more land to grow on so they needed to move from on top of the mesa to... well... somewhere else that was close by. So they chose to build their villages and homes into the cliffs. The park itself has over 4,300 archeological sites, including over 600 cliff dwellings. We were lucky enough to explore 3 of these.

Long House, Mesa Verde National Park, CO