Tuesday 11.8. (Mesa Verde)

We get up early to be at the reasonable time in the Visitors Center at Mesa Verde Park and buy the tickets for a tour to rock pueblo. We choose Cliff Palace, it is the largest pueblo in Northern America -- impressively biult in the window of a rocky wall, from the distance looks like a birds nest. We climb down with ranger and walk along the pueblo. The rest of the afternoon we spend by sightseeing of other archeological interesting sights of the park (several other rock pueblos and an older pithouses on the lands above the canyon). In Mesa Verde one can find a number of things and can spend much more time than a single afternoon which we have at disposal. We leave the park, driving east to Great Sand Dunes, to the more humid areas (looks more like in Alpes) and drive through the continental divide again, getting in the 11 ths. feet elevation (about 3 and half kilometers). In the evening, we get to to park and take one of the last empty sites in the campground (camp is pretty small).