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Couldn’t ignore the famous Mesa Arch in Canyonlands, Utah when staying in Moab. Early sunrise with dozens of other photographers made this not the best experience, but I’ve got my shot! Moving on :)
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Throughout the course of these travelogue posts about the trip, I’ve used the word sacred quite a few times. Yes, it’s out of necessity and objective truth, as native tribes hold these public lands as sacred in their creation myths, but I’ve also felt that these lands should be sacred to everyone for these cultural reasons and for their sheer beauty. It should come as no surprise, then, that Mesa Verde National Park also fits into this category and might be the undisputed superlative of the whole collection of places that we visited. Situated high on a verdant mesa in the Colorado wilderness that’s rife with natural beauty, the anthropological side of Mesa Verde is far beyond anything that I’ve ever experienced: hiking and climbing and crawling (more on that later) to get in and out of 700 year old dwellings. Wooden beams and art that’s withstood the elements and tests of time even though they’re exposed to the elements because those elements (desert heat and elevation!) helped preserve them. Ornate pottery remains in cliff dwellings and preserved in stellar museum exhibits. All of this and more felt like I was stepping into a page in one of my history books. So yes, Mesa Verde is sacred for the fact that it is a place of cultural heritage, but it’s also sacred for any visitor that comes to it and revel in the experience of this special National Park.
Keep calling your reps. Public lands and the National Park Service budget is still at risk. Experiences like this must be kept for all.
Mesa Verde is in the southwestern corner of Colorado was constructed throughout the thirteenth century by cliff-dwelling Ancestral Puebloans. Cliff Palace, which is the largest cliff-dwelling in North America, is believed to have sustained a population of about 100 people until a drought lasting longer than two decades forced relocation. Mesa Verde is still thought to inhabit the spirits of the ancestors of the Pueblo.
The Breakaways are a striking & unique example of arid scenery. From the flat - topped mesas to the stony gibber desert, remnants of millions of years provide a wealth of geological interests and breathtaking views. Looking out over the breakaways it is hard to believe that over 70 million years ago, a vast inland sea covered the area. The region is rich in Aboriginal and European history and is home to an array of native fauna and flora, which have successfully adapted to one of the world's harshest environments. Definitely one of Outback South Australia's best-kept secrets.
Info courtesy of www.cooberpedy.sa.gov.au/page.aspx?u=181&c=393
I love the desert and one day I will actually get to live there. But, until then, vacations will have to do. We spent a week in southern Utah in October. I wore my husband out with all the activities. Some planned, some spontaneous. I mountainbike when I’m not injured. There was no way I was going to southern Utah and not getting on a bike in the dirt. Or sand and rock as was the case here. Gooseberry Mesa is famous for world class mountain biking. When we got to the parking area, we were alone. It’s pretty desolate up there. I took the picture strictly as a survival tactic; in case we got lost, all we had to do was look for that mountain for direction to the parking area. We had a blast riding, at least I did, and got this amazing shot that I want to enlarge to hang over my fireplace. Best vacation evah!
Approximately 580,000 people visit Mesa Verde each year. Would you like to explore this spectacular habitation all by yourself? Try going to the site in January, which we in November, 2006.
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FROM THE INTERNET:
Colorado's Mesa Verde, Spanish for green table, offers a spectacular look into the lives of the Ancestral Pueblo people who made it their home for over 700 years, from AD 600 to 1300.
Today the park protects nearly 5,000 known archeological sites, including 600 cliff dwellings. These sites are some of the most notable and best preserved in the United States.
Mesa Arch is found in the Island in the Sky District of Canyonlands National Park. The rugged canyon country in the distance below is framed by a close-up view of the photogenic arch. It was cloudy without the warm colors of sunrise so I felt I'd go with this kind of sepia look.
Canyonlands National Park, Utah
Für diese Aufnahme haben wir uns um 04:30 Uhr aus unseren Schlafsäcken gepellt - Gänsehaut inbegriffen, bei diesem Anblick...
I was able to spend a few days last week in New Mexico, and, as you may have noticed, I had my camera. I got up one morning to shoot Black Mesa, north of Santa Fe. The mesa is sacred to the Indians and is located on the San Ildefonso Pueblo. I had a rather peaceful morning admiring the mesa in the gathering colors of dawn.
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Walking along a snow covered path in Mesa Verde. The canyon below is fogged in. Hints of Autumn bring color to the landscape.
As the evening shadows lengthen the Tankwa Karoo National Park becomes a paradise for landscape photography, punctuated with mesas and strangely shaped hills that point the way to the south-western corner of South Africa's enormous Great Escarpment.
We went here a couple of years ago and managed to be pretty much first there at around 3.30-4am and claimed our spot. This year we accidentally turned the alarm off! When we got there at about 5.30am there must have been 15 or so people there already and we really had to gently and politely ease our tripods into barely existent gaps! It was as stunning as ever though <3