Las Cuevas Pintadas

You will need to hire a guide to go here, it is a National Monument, and carefully protected.

You will travel down a very steep canyon wall, your guide can also provide you with a mule to carry your possessions, and maybe yourself, as well.

Please learn to speak Spanish, or at least give it a shot, before you go here. Our guide and I became friends during our week-long visit to this amazing place.

I simply cannot put into words the wonderment that comes from seeing this amazing site. There are pictographs and petroglyphs everywhere, and they’re all beautiful. I’m not a spiritual person, normally, but I felt pulled into history during this time.

One bad thing:
Ladies, be careful of the brackish waters that pool on the canyon floor. I ran my hands through them, and now have a permanent fine web-like etching of silicon leavings inscribed on the backs of my hands.

This website is in Spanish. http://www.arara.org/bajas.html