March 6, 2010, Bandelier National Monument, N.M.

While visiting cousin Maia and Dan in Santa Fe Bill and I made a day trip to Bandelier National Monument in the mountains near Los Alamos, N.M. In the 1930s the Civilian Conservation Corps built a road into the Frijoles Canyon, home to Pueblo revival structures, as well as trails, a lodge and visitor center. The buildings are as lovely as the ones at Davis Mt. State Park and Balmorhea S.P. in Texas.

Beside Bill, in the picture above, and in the picture below are the remains of the village of Tyuonyi where the height of development was the late 1400s.

Up on the mountain above the town of Tyuonyi is a reconstruction of a Talus house with caves dug out all around it. The caves are the larger black holes and the rest of the holes and pock marks on the face of the cliff are natural rock features here.

Here's a closer view of the caves that were dug out.

This ladder is for visitors to climb up to see what the caves are like....

...and this is what you see.

The village of Tyuonyi from trail up on the mountain.

Reconstructed Talus house.

Bill by that same village.

Bye for now.