Mesa Verde

Finally I made it to the last place I desperately wanted to see in Colorado: Mesa Verde in the far south west of this state. But what is so great about it? Well, especially in a place like Denver where the oldest buildings are barely 100 years old (and made to a museum of course) Mesa Verde is standing out as an historic side. For more then thousand years Native Americans were settling and building this interesting cliff dwellings here.

I did this eight hours road trip with my neighbor and very good friend, Christine... accompanied by little Jasmina who did very well on this road trip babbling away on the back seat ;-)
But of course we didn't do this in one day... We also used the time and explored the south of Colorado... so there is more to come!

But Mesa Verde is definitely worth a visit. I was stunned by the size of this National Park. The various cliff dwellings are just the tip of the iceberg as it seems like that they were just supporting over 5000 people living on top of the plateau. Just about the same number of people who are flooding Mesa Verde each day to see the ruins nowadays. I bet the Native Americans never would have imagine that ;-)