I just recently visited this unique and interesting park. About 800 years ago, this was home for some Pueblo Indians. It is a beautiful place(about an hour from Santa Fe,New Mexico) and I can see why the Pueblo's chose this place to live. My next few shots will come from this visit. For those interested, I added a little info that I looked up. Perched on the eastern slopes of the Jemez Mountains in the high desert of nothern New Mexico, Bandelier National Monument possesses a wealth of natural and cultural beauty. Evidence of Native American activity dates back 10,000 years, but the most visible signs are the remains of ancestral Pueble settlements scattered throughout the park and its surrounding area. Sometime after 1100 A.D., ancestral Pueble people first arrived in the ajarito Plateau (home of present day Bandelier) and settled in the area's many canyons and mesas. One of the largest and best preserved settlements, called Tyuonyi, lies in Frijoles Canyon. Here there was once a circular community house that probably stood three stories tall and contained over 400 rooms. Just above are cliff dwellings, known as cavates, which housed families for hundreds of years. Built directly into the volcanic tuff, cavates are found in canyons across the plateau. The Pueblo people left Frijoles sometime in the 1500s, concentrating their settlements along the Rio Grande valley a few miles to the east. ENJOY TODAY