Bandera Ice Caves and El Morro
Trip Start
Jan 08, 2007
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Trip End
Dec 29, 2009
Albuquerque,
New Mexico,
United States
Saturday, May 23, 2009
We went the Ice Caves. The property is owned by Native Americans I believe so they charge what they want. 10 dollars a person! That's the same cost as Mount Rushmore! The green color of the ice was interesting. It was freezing down there, although that was expected of course if it's still ice. 31 degrees! Brr.
From there we went to El Morro. I wasn't that enticed by El Morro, but the hike turned out to be one of the most fun I've been on. First we went by writings by the Spanish carved in the rock from the early 1600s. They had come up from Mexico, I find it interesting that they were already here in what is now the United States before the first pilgrims even arrived from England. The pilgrims came in 1620 and the earliest Spanish writing was before that year. The Spanish came here because it was the only drinkable water source around. Anway we continued on the trail and up the cliff where there were steps carved out and real unique paths up on top of this cliff, then we continued on to some Native American ruins.
