Today was a beautiful day so we went to visit the Acoma Pueblo. Altitude 7000' walked slowly. Took guide tour of site. Very interesting but somewhat disappointing. I thought it would be more like Taos - but this has had buildings added to up to now. Cars and pickups parked all over. No electricity or running water. All water is brought up from valley floor 320 feet down. Wood stoves for heat and cooking. Outhouses for necessary - in fact quite a lot of outhouses. Big outdoor bread ovens. And lots of pottery for sale. Any way that said, learned a lot.
The 2000 year old "Sky City" has the distinction of being the oldest continuously inhabited community in No America. When the Spanish came they Made the Acoma learn Spanish in this school room.
The San Estevan del Rey Mission was completed in 1640 on top of a destroyed Kiva - walls are from 5 to 10 feet thick
The Acoma National Forest - the only tree on the mesa - a cottonwood standing right next to a sistern
The old and the new - older buildings and a residents car
A grinding stone
One of the remaining Kivas - built square to confuse the Spanish
just an interesting entrance - note trim design
One of the ovens
The homes were built of gold/yellow straw and mud and when the sun shone on them they glowed gold - thus the cities of gold the Spanish were looking for
Some of the pottery
The desert below the mesa
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