Chaco Culture National Historical Park

To sort of get back into the flow of things.
Before Malaysia, and before my first attempt at going to Monument Valley I was in Chaco Culture National Historical Park.
It is a very neat place, very interesting for its ruins, petroglyphs but also for its great landscape. The worse and the best side of Chaco is that the road to it is SO dreadful (at least the few 11 miles or so - I can't remember now) that its is not as busy as such a site would be anywhere else.

Here are some of the highlights for me...and as usual no explanations.

Chaco is at the centre of a radiating ancient road network. When the roads encounter cliffs they built stairs....
In the photo below you can barely see them.

Here is a close up of the same photo

Same stairs seen from the top, so where you would have to catch them if you were going down

 You couldn't pay me to go either up or down on those stairs.

For me though the real highlight was the famous Supernova rock painting. If you have read any first year astronomy textbook you must have seen a picture of it. It was great to see it "in real life" to see where it was and see it in its surroundings.

Whether or not it does really represent a supernova or not is something else. I can't help but be a skeptic. But it was great to see it and to puzzle about it while looking at it.