For dining I wanted something with low calories. So I decided to check out Taco Bell in Cortez.I would like to provide you a short review of Taco Bell here.

I ordered a Burrito Supreme which I got within a minute. The diet coke was very tasty and consequently very good. The service was okay too.

The Taco Bell restaurant was very clean from the inside, not comparable to Mc Donald’s where I had been in the morning. All in all I really liked this Taco Bell in Cortez. My rating: 10/10. 10 because you can not say anything against a 4$ evening meal, still very tasty and in a good facility.

Hope you enjoyed my Taco Bell cortez review. Check out my review of Lake Powell, which I will be writing tomorrow :).
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Looking for breakfast in Cortez, Colorado - I chose McDonald’s as I only wanted a McFlurry. This is a short review of McDonald’s in cortez When I entered the restaurant I already encountered my first shock… The floor was dirty.

It took the waiter around 5 minutes to get me a single McFlurry. I ordered a Diet coke, as I suddenly got thirsty. It was quite okay and you have as many refills included as you like.

I seated at a window and what I saw was disgusting… All windows were covered with flies…

Hope you enjoyed my short McDonald’s Cortez review. Don’t enter that restaurant. My review, 1/10 points.
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I chose Cortez as a place to sleep close to the Mesa Verde national park. I would like to provide you with a Best Western Turquoise Inn review, as that is the hotel I am in right now.

The rooms are not dirty and look very friendly. You have a very good television in your room and free WiFi. I don’t like carpet floors, but really can not expect a lot more for 80 $ per night. The breakfast the next morning was inclusive and is okay. Nothing special, but okay.

Hope you enjoyed my short review of Best Western Turquoise Inn in Cortez. My rating 8/10. Only 8 because I find carpet hotel floors disgusting.
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Leaving Moab my next stop is the town of Cortez. It is right after the Utah/Colorado border. I would like to provide you with a short Cortez review.

Cortez is a friendly, little town with a lot of shopping possibillities. You have Citymarket, Wallmart and several fast food restaurants here. The air is clean and the town in no way dirty.

If you need a hotel or stop in front of Mesa Verde National park, then Cortez is the town where you want to find a hotel. Hope you enjoyed my short Cortez review.
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Leaving Arches and Canyonlands national park behind I am leaving the town of Moab, heading towards Cortez. Cortez is my next stop as it is relatively close to the Mesa Verde national park. I would like to provide you a short review of Mesa Verde national park.

At first I felt relatively unexcited because I have seen so many national parks in the past weeks. But then when entering Mesa Verde I quickly noticed it would be another unique national park. Mesa Verde is not focused on the nature, but on the people that lived in there. You will encounter a lot of remains from native Americans.

Here a Mesa Verde national park picture (click to enlarge):

For more information about the park, please click this and this link.

And let me tell you, it is amazing, I took a ranger tour down to a small town that was build in an alcove. You will want to see this inside Meda Verda national park because there is no other place on earth that has 800 year old buildings from past peoples in a that good condition. The tour was relatively difficult but still a very extreme experience, we walked down the cliffs with several ladders to the Cliff palace. The cliff palace is a small cliff dwelling consisting of several spruce tree houses built by Ancient Puebloan Indians. I have never seen that before and you can only see that in Mesa Verde national park.

I rate the park with 10/10 points because of its landscape, the ranger tours and the historic background. Check out my next review of Lake Powell. Hope you enjoyed my short review of Mesa Verde national park.