| Perched in alcoves in steep semi desert canyons, | | | | Verde is a voyage back to the time before |
| are ancient apartment complexes, some of which | | | | recorded history in the United States and a look |
| are several stories tall where an ancient people | | | | at the southwest's most earliest inhabitants, the |
| lived and thrived in soutwest Colorado. Cliff Palace | | | | people that the Navajo call the Anasazi. |
| is the jewel of the cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde, | | | | Mesa Verde as a national park turned 100 years |
| and is befitting to it's name, a palace built within | | | | old in 2007, but it's been around for 14 centuries. |
| the cliff by a people who lived centuries ago. | | | | The nomadic Anasazi people chose to settle down |
| From a vantage point above the ruin you see | | | | and build permanent homes within the cliffs and |
| rooms and towers of stone, circular sunken | | | | planted their crops on the mesa tops above. |
| enclosures and wide passageways. A trip to Mesa | | | | |