Bandelier National Park

This will be the abbreviated version - I originally did 2x as many pictures. I swore I was not going to go to see any more red rocks or Anasazi cliff dwellings. Then we decided to go to Santa Fe, and this National Park had been recommended to us. It is about 1/2 hour away from Santa Fe, and 15 minutes from Los Alamos. We arrived at Bandelier about 3pm - and it was finally warm, not snowing or frosty, so we decided to go and check out the cliff dwellings. It is really quite interesting to look back over our trip, the first taste of cliff dwellings was at Semolina State park in S. Texas, and there was cliff dwellings with no buildings, just the cave and some pictographs. Bandelier (and Mesa Verde) were so much more advanced. Here at Bandelier, they dug into the sandstone, they then had caves at the back and built 2 to 3 story levels, multiple dwellings. Finally they moved to the ground and built a huge circular, multilevel complex. It was another fascinating hike.