This past Sunday I had a really great adventure. I spent two hours poking around a vast, ruined, ancient city!
Okay... I can't lie. I didn't really stumble upon an actual ruined, ancient city. By "ancient," I mean it is only about four years old, and by ruins I mean decaying wood structures and a whole lotta chiseled styrofoam. Inhabited mostly by vultures, squirrels, and really fast and cute little lizards of all kinds of species.
It is only a movie set for the really crappy, mid-2000's cheesey-crappy comedy-history genre film, Year One. I'm glad that fad died out. Those movies sucked! But the replacement of this genre with the fail-doomsday-epic-comedies is not much better either... I'll shut up!
With all being said, this was probably the COOLEST place I have scoured... If I was still a kid I would have thought I hit the jackpot. I could have had my very own fortress!
I am posting 15 pictures. If you want to see the full album (including a few panoramas), here is the link;
http://s887.photob...odom?sort=2&page=1 Enjoy
Guard-shack near the gate entrance
My first view into the "city"
We were being watched.
This view really made me feel like I was in an ancient city! This is the entrance to one of the side village paths that branched off of the main "courtyard"
Around the corner from the main gate entrance
I walked up these stairs to a plaza on top of the roof but didn't go on it as it was not very stable
Here's a shot from the rooftop plaza
Howdy!
We had company.
Walking back into the courtyard
The Temple? Didn't look safe to go any further into this area so I stretched my arm out and got a shot.
The bull-head.
Lastly, the dunes north of the village site.