Day 3 (D-58) Buena Vista / St-Elmo, a ghost town Buena Vista is 198 km (121 miles) from Denver, about a two-and-a-half-hour drive. https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Denver,+Colorado,+États-Unis/Saint+Elmo,+Colorado+81236,+États-Unis/@39.2650129,-106.6203423,8.31z/data=!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x876b80aa231f17cf:0x118ef4f8278a36d6!2m2!1d-104.990251!2d39.7392358!1m5!1m1!1s0x87154e2a0eef9683:0xcbb521a89103b812!2m2!1d-106.346223!2d38.703365!3e0 T he starting point's Denver elevation is 1596 m (5280 feet) from sea level. Destination point Buena Vista elevation is 2421 m (7942 feet) relative to sea level. Take a two-minute look at this mountain town, if you like, or wait until we get there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=127&v=TEifj7o68v4 We'll continue our drive in the mountains to the ghost town of St-Elmo. The Rocky Mountains in Colorado have 53 peaks rising above 14000 feet. In the mountaineering langu...
I'm so happy. It's Toussaint holidays and students have time to send me more photos of their extraordinary trip to the American Southwest in June of 2019. It's Annie's turn today...and tomorrow...so be sure to return tomorrow! Such beautiful colors for this hummingbird in the ghost town, St Elmo, in Colorado. In the town of Silverton, in Colorado also, lucky to be rich is for anyone who tries. When a dream becomes reality...it becomes magic in this part of the world. Such a wonderful sight! Thank you Annie. My best, Jane
Day 18 of our "computer traveling" will start the 6th day (Sunday, June 23rd) of our trip in the American Southwest. Here are a few pictures of the cliff dwellings we'll be seeing there. Just look. Or look and read. You choose. Cliff Palace, at about 150 rooms , is the largest cliff dwelling in the park. Amazing! 90% of Mesa Verde's cliff dwellings have 10 rooms or less. Tree-ring dating indicates that construction and refurbishing of Cliff Palace was continuous approximately from 1190 CE through 1260 CE . Cliff Palace was abandoned by 1300 , then rediscovered in 1888 by Richard Wetherill and Charlie Mason while they were out looking for stray cattle . Spruce Tree House . Spruce Tree House is the third largest ( 130 rooms and 8 kivas ) and best preserved cliff dwelling in the park, constructed between A.D . 1211 and 1278 by the ancestors of the ...
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