Friday, March 20, 2009

Day 4 Part 1: El Morro National Monument


South of Gallup and in the middle of nowhere is El Morro, which is famous for a pool of water that is available all year round, which was the only reliable source of water for at least 30 miles - as people visited the pool, they decided to leave inscriptions in the rocks - starting with petroglyphs from pre-1600 through to the Spaniards (including inscriptions from the first expedition in 1603) through to colonising Americans in the 1800's
























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