Another weird name! This little national monument is pronounced too-see-whoot, and it is in Arizona. It is a thousand year old Pueblo ruin, houses made of rock, that the Yavapai tribe lived in. There are a bunch of ruins to explore and hike through there. We started up the path and we saw two lizards. I would’ve gotten a great picture- if my camera wasn’t still on the black-and-white setting. The ruins were really cool, and I took lot of cool pictures. (after I fixed my camera! 🙂 ) Here are Ellie and Ana in front of an ancient stone wall:
Ellie and Ana standing in front of the ruins
You can see some of the pueblo ruins down the hill behind them. One family lived in each room. The doors were in the rooftops.
Here is a picture of me looking out over the Verde River Valley from the top of the ruins:
Looking out over the valley
I took this close-up picture of the patterns made by bugs under the bark of one of the wooden beams supporting the main building of the pueblo:
Insects turned this beam into a work of art
The ruins were really cool, and after seeing them it made me glad that I live in a modern house. The pueblo was nice, but there were a lot of things that are much improved today.
The hike would have been a lot nicer if it wasn’t so HOT. When we got back to the visitor center, two nice park rangers, Lisa and John, taught us a lot about the park. We went there on March 31. I really liked Tuzigoot National Monument! 🙂
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April 5th, 2011 at 8:49 am
Those poor Yavapai didn’t have cameras, cell phones, OR a mobile Queendom. One wonders if they even had sisters or moms and dads!
April 7th, 2011 at 10:07 am
the beam looks SOOOOOOOOO cool