Chaco Canyon, More Pueblo del Arroyo

The extensive and intricate construction here is really amazing. It is easy to see why this place is designated as a World Heritage Site.

In places such the one in the image below, it is really striking to see the precision with which the windows/doors are aligned through the sections of the building.

When I look around the canyon, I see no trees. Certainly, I see nothing in the number or the size necessary to construct the second level floor seen below. This is really an amazing construction.

One of the first things I though when I first started walking around was "how was this excavated?". I mean, look around...all the rocks are the same color and type. How can you go digging to find a stone wall in the midsts of all this rocks?

The loneliness of the windswept plain that is the floor of the canyon gives this place a special feeling. To stand where people over a thousand years ago stood; to see the canyon walls that surrounded them, around me; tout being here with hear the same birds and wind they heard; all this works on your mind to give you sense of not only being here, being there with them.

There is much about the small, close communities that brightened this canyon that we could learn from for our current world. Would that we could actually take heed of this wisdom.