I've shared several places to visit in Arizona - all within two or three hours of Mesa, Arizona. I call them my day trips. Granted, you might want to stop overnight somewhere, but you don't "have" to. You can actually go to Montezuma's Castle, near Camp Verde, just north of the Phoenix Valley, stop for lunch and be back home to Mesa within four hours.
Montezuma's Castle National Monument is a group of well-preserved cliff dwellings. I have included an excerpt from Wikipedia which is fascinating. These cliff dwellings are fascinating as well.
As a kid, we would actually crawl through them. This, of course, was before it was made into a national monument. I took my daughter and her children to see this spectacular area.
They were built and used by the Pre-Columbian Sinagua people around 1400 AD. Several Hopi clans trace their roots to immigrants from the Montezuma Castle/Beaver Creek area. Clan members periodically return to their former homes for religious ceremonies. When European Americans discovered them in the 1860s, they named them for the Aztec emperor of Mexico Montezuma II, due to mistaken beliefs that the emperor had been connected to their construction.[1]
I definitely consider myself to be a beginner at photography, but do enjoy taking pictures and then sharing them online - especially her on Active Rain.
Enjoy the slideshow!!!!
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