Baja 2017 - Canyon de Chelly

136538 Wednesday, November 16th,  leaving Cortez, Colorado  where we spent the night at a friendly Walmart .  We had a grand afternoon  at Mesa Verde. We had dinner at a local brew pub that was very good (except for the ribs, which were weird)  and today are headed for Canyon De Chelly . It is about a two-and-a-half-hour drive  and we should get there by late morning.   We arrived at the visitor center and called to hire a driver for a Jeep tour of the canyon floor. David Walker picked us up in a red Range Rover and we spent 3 hours driving in the jeep through the canyon floor. We saw many ruins and Cliff Dwellings from the road and numerous pictographs. Our tour guide was a little lame and repetitious and his jokes were not very funny, but we saw some incredible sites and learned a lot about the history of the Navajo in this area. Hopi, Anasazi, Utes and Navajos all inhabited this canyon at various times.

Pictures!

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Intrepid explorers

Ancient art

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Kokopeli

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