Thursday, April 17, 2008
Boo!
These are photos taken of some "roches gravées" (petroglyphs) on Basse Terre, Guadeloupe. These rock carvings were made by Arawak Indians, an indigenous tribe that occupied the islands around 300-400 C.E., and which has disappeared (apart from DNA, perhaps). To find this particular location, my traveling buddies and I drove in circles for half an hour, walked down a dirt road, climbed over a fallen chain link fence, hiked down a steep and twisting rock-strewn path before we reached the river with the rocks. Well worth it.