On the road between Carrizozo and San Antonio, there are the Malpais. You are driving along seeing typical desert...
Then you come across a sign for the Valley of the fires..
Then you see the terrain change and begin to notice the black lava. The Spanish explorers who came here called this the Malpais - which means Badlands.
Close up you can see the pooling patterns in the lava that has been here for a thousand years. 
Legend has it that if you take a piece of lava you will have bad luck. They have letters from all over sending back the rock they took, hoping to remove the bad luck spell.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know that! I love learning new things about the area.
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