Journey to the Center of an Ancient World

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Today the massive buildings of the ancestral Pueblo peoples still testify to the organizational and engineering abilities not seen anywhere else in the American Southwest. This spiritual journey will bring you into deeper contact with the canyon that was central to thousands of people between 850 and 1250 A.D.

For all the wild beauty of Chaco Canyon’s high-desert landscape, its long winters, short growing seasons and marginal rainfall created an unlikely place for a major center of ancestral Puebloan culture to take root and flourish. Yet this valley was the center of a thriving culture a thousand years ago. The monumental scale of its architecture, the complexity of its community life, the high level of its community social organization and its far-reaching commerce created a cultural vision unlike any other seen before or since.

Tour Includes:

• Round-trip air transportation from Cedar Rapids to Albuquerque
• Round-trip transfers between airport and hotels
• First Class accommodations
• Airline & hotel taxes
• Transportation throughout the tour by minivan
• Daily breakfast
• Farewell dinner at the Sandiago’s Mexican Grill overlooking Sandia’s Peak
• Additional meals as indicated
• Sightseeing tours as per itinerary
• Sightseeing entrance fees

Special Features:

• Tour to to Acoma Pueblo, the ancient pueblo built high on a mesa
• Visit to Una Vida and the petroglyphs along with Hungo Pavi
• A whole day in Chetro Ketl and Casa Rincanada
• Spend the day at Pueblo Bonito, the most thoroughly investigated and celebrated cultural site of the Canyon
• Take the Sandia Tram to the top of the Sandia Mountains

Accommodations (or similar):

• In Albuquerque (1 night) Holiday Inn Express Airport
• In Bloomfield  (3 nights) BW Territorial Inn & Suites
• In Albuquerque (1 night) Holiday Inn Express Airport

Itinerary

Day One-Saturday, May 2: To Albuquerque

Depart Cedar City for your flights to Albuquerque Airport where after an afternoon arrival, we are met and transferred  to our accommodations for a well-deserved rest.  Overnight in Albuquerque.

Day Two-Sunday, May 3: To Bloomfield  – To Chaco Canyon (B/L)

Pick up at Albuquerque hotel about 8:00 am  as we start our tour to Chaco Culture National Historic Park.  On the way we will travel through the Santa Ana Pueblo and the Jemez Pueblo.  We will arrive at Chaco Culture National Historic Park in the late morning.  Our first stop will be at the Visitor’s Center for an orientation of the area.  Our journey will be on the nine-mile loop road with its six major sites. These include: Una Vida, Hungo Pavi, Pueblo Bonito, Chetro Ketl, Pueblo del Arroyo and Casa Rincanada. Today we will visit Una Vida and the petroglyphs along with Hungo Pavi, an unexcavated Chacoan Great House. On one of our walks into these prehistoric places, we will have time to sit for a meditation and grounding with nature and the ancients. We will have a box lunch provided during our program. Late afternoon or early evening, we will depart the Canyon and travel to Bloomfield, NM and our overnight.

Day Three- Monday, May 4: In  Bloomfield  – To Chaco Canyon (B/L)

After breakfast we will travel back to Chaco Canyon and spend the day walking among the ancients again.  Today we will spend the whole day in Chetro Ketl and Casa Rincanada.  We will have a box lunch provided during our program. Overnight Bloomfield, NM.

Day Four, Tuesday, May 5: In  Bloomfield  – To Chaco Canyon (B/L)

After breakfast we travel again back to Chaco and spend the day at Pueblo Bonito, the most thoroughly investigated and celebrated cultural site in Chaco Canyon.  Planned and constructed in stages between AD 850 and AD 1150 by ancestral Puebloan peoples, this was the center of the Chacoan world.  We will have a box lunch provided during our program. Travel back to Bloomfield for our overnight.

Day Five- Wednesday, May 6: To Albuquerque  (B/D)

This morning after breakfast we will depart Bloomfield and travel across the Navajo Reservation.  Late morning to Acoma Pueblo, Sky City for a walking tour of this ancient pueblo built high on a mesa in Western New Mexico. After an orientation at the Sky City Cultural Center, we will walk the Mesa to learn about the history of this beautiful area. Blending the modern with the ancient people of the area, you will have time to immerse and meditate in this natural setting.  Lunch on your own. Mid afternoon we will depart Acoma and travel past Laguna Pueblo with a stop for viewing this ancient Pueblo.  Then onto the Sandia Peak Tram where we will be whisked 2.7 miles to the top of Sandia Peak elevation 10,378 feet.  After, we descend back to the base for our Farewell dinner at Santiago’s famous Mexico Grill.  After dinner we will transfer to our hotel for our overnight.

Day Six – Thursday, May 7:  Back to Cedar Rapids (B)

Transfer back to the airport for our connecting flights back to Cedar Rapids.

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