Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, U.S.A. UNESCO World Heritatge
travel time 22 days
distance travelled 8,663 km
received on 9 Oct, 2017
sent by Alix, U.S.A
Mesa Verde, Spanish for green table, offers a spectacular look into the lives of the Ancestral Pueblo people who made it their home for over 700 years, from AD 600 to 1300. Today the park protects nearly 5,000 known archeological sites, including 600 cliff dwellings. These sites are some of the most notable and best preserved in the United States
Mesa Verden kansallispuisto
Colorado, USA
Mesa Verden kansallispuistossa sijaitsee lounais-Coloradossa. Puisto on tunnettu erityisesti muinaisten pueblointiaanien rakentamista taloista ja kylistä. Kuuluisimmat näistä ovat luoliin ja kallionkielekkeiden alle rakennetut rakennukset. Kansallispuistossa sijaitsee Yhdysvaltain suurimmaksi oletettu ”kielekerakennus” Cliff Palace. Mesa Verden kansallispuisto valittiin 1978 Unescon maailmanperintöluetteloon. Unescon mukaan Mesa Verden muinaisjäännös todistaa pohjoisamerikkalaisten intiaanien muinaisisesta perinteestä.
Longs Peak is a high and prominent mountain summit in the northern Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. Longs Peak is the northernmost fourteener in the Rocky Mountains and the highest point in Boulder County and Rocky Mountain National Park. ( fourteener is a mountain peak with an elevation of at least 14,000 feet)
Vysoké Tatry, High Tatras Slovakia
From Otto in Kosice, Slovakia
Distance: 1,553 km
Travel time: 12 days
National Park High Tatras (Vysoke Tatry) is situated in the north of Slovakia, shared partly with Poland. The only mountains of Alpine type in the whole Carpathian Mountain range are often called "the smallest alpine mountains in Europe".
New Zealand. Sunset over Mount Taranaki
Direct swap from Lyn in Wellingron, New Zealand
Mount Taranaki, or Mount Egmont, is an active but quiescent stratovolcano in the Taranaki region on the west coast of New Zealand's North Island. The 2518-metre-high mountain is one of the most symmetrical volcanic cones in the world.
Colorado National Monument preserves one of the grand landscapes of American West. Sheerwalled canyons, towering monoliths, colorful formations, desert bighorn sheep,soaring eagles and a spectacular road reflect the environment and history of the plateau-and-canyon country.
Photo: Larry Ulrich
Surprise received from Annick in Vire, France :) :)
Star Peak rises 11, 761 ft. above the Colorado plains near Aspen.
I received this great mountain card from Nancy. Nancy lives near Denver and loves mountains but she is happy the snow has melted. I also love mountains, although sometimes driving on a winding mountain road or climbing up a steep path is a little too much for me :)