Kong Khong Market, also known as Bowing Market or Talat Kong Khong is located about 15 minutes south of Ayutthaya.
This market has a weird name because in the past vendors would lay their merchandises on the ground or in their boats. People who wanted to buy the goods had to bow their heads down in order to take a closer look at the items for sale.
This market was opened in 2006. It is a private market with the objective to allow the locals to have some space to open their shops. The market has been successful and has grown bigger until it has becomes the most interesting market in Ayutthaya. This market is open Thursdays to Sundays. On Thursdays and Fridays, customers are the locals or people working in nearby factories. During the weekends, customers who are tourists from other places in Thailand stop here.
Even though this market is not a big one, it has its own charm. All vendors wear Thai costumes in magenta or purple like the color of the mangosteen. The highlight of this market ...
PAINTED HAND PUEBLO
Built in the AD 1200s, Painted Hand Pueblo was a small village of about 20 rooms that still include faint rock paintings and petroglyphs.
The designs of the ancient images have special meaning to Tribal descendants.
In 2014, the Painted Hand Pueblo was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Canyons of the Ancients National Monument encompasses more than 170,000 acres of high
desert. Part of the Bureau of Land Management's National Conservation Lands, the monument is
managed to protect its rich landscapes and cultural and natural resources.
The monument contains the highest recorded density of prehistoric and historic sites in North America.
Thousands of archaeological sites have been recorded in the monument, and thousands more await documentation and study. Sites with standing walls are more obvious, while other sites are rubble mounds or depressions in the earth.
This site is often overlooked by the more popular Mesa Verde and Hovenweep but still worth a visit....
Ancestral Puebloans farmed corn, beans, and squash; supplemented their diet with small game; and made tools from stones and animal bones. The average height of an Ancestral Puebloan was about 5'1" (156 cm) for females and 5'3" (163 cm) for males. The average life span was 30 years.
Ancestral Puebloan villages have stone masonry, underground structures, round rooms, rectangular rooms, towers and plazas. These villages sometimes include natural cliffs and rock shelters. Descendants of the people who lived long ago in the San Juan region still maintain ties to the area and live in modern villages in New Mexico and Arizona.
SAND CANYON PUEBLO
About AD 1250, families came together around the head of Sand Canyon to build a large and compact village. A thick, one-storytall, U-shaped wall surrounded hundreds of square rooms, round kivas, and community structures including a plaza, a large D-shaped structure, and a great kiva.
The village seems designed for defense-perhaps due to regional strife over dwindling ...
Lowry Pueblo is a 1,000-year-old Ancestral Puebloan village named after George Lowry, an early 20* century homesteader. Lowry Pueblo was built on top of the houses of an earlier community around AD 1060, and inhabited for about 165 years. Lowry Pueblo began as a small village with a few rooms and a kiva. Several more rooms, the Great Kiva, and Kiva B (the painted kiva) were added between AD 1085 and 1170. By the time the last families left and migrated south and east, the pueblo had 40 rooms, eight kivas, and a Great Kiva.
Dr. Paul S. Martin of the Chicago Field Museum of Natural History excavated Lowry Pueblo in the 1930s. In 1965, the BLM and the University of Colorado stabilized the masonry walls. In 1967, Lowry Pueblo was dedicated as a National Historic Landmark. Although the masonry was repaired for preservation and safety, Lowry looks much as it did when it was originally excavated.
Canyons of the Ancients National Monument encompasses more than 170,000 acres of high
desert. Part of the Bureau...
