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Southwest Native Trails End Albuquerque
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Length
11 Days
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Quality
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Starts in
Albuquerque (New Mexico)
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Ends in
Albuquerque (New Mexico)
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Available Tour Start Dates
MAY 31, 2025 to SEP 27, 2025
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Activity Level
No Rating Provided
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Language
English
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Guaranteed Date(s)
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$3,843.23
Overview
This immersive Native American Cultural Heritage tour will delight anyone who wants to delve deeper into the captivating culture and traditions of the Southwest. From Chaco Canyon’s Pueblo structures to Hovenweep National Monument’s villages through local historians, you’ll embrace history of the Ancestral Puebloans as well as current thriving Native American cultures of the Southwest.
Visited During Tour
Acoma Pueblo (New Mexico) | Albuquerque (New Mexico) | Canyon de Chelly National Monument (Arizona) | Chaco Culture National Historic Park (New Mexico) | Chinle (Arizona) | Durango (Colorado) | Gallup (New Mexico) | Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site (Arizona) | Mesa Verde National Park (Colorado) | Monument Valley (Arizona) | Petroglyph National Monument (New Mexico) | Santa Fe (New Mexico) | Taos (New Mexico)
Dates, Offers & Prices
Tour Itinerary
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Dates, Offers & Prices
The following are Southwest Native Trails End Albuquerque tour dates available from Trafalgar. Select a bonus offer graphic to view its details, including its terms.
Tour Itinerary
Trafalgar Tour Code 559-1758
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1Arrive in Albuquerque
Start your cultural encounter with New Mexico in its warm heart - Albuquerque. Join your Travel Director and fellow travelers this evening for a Welcome Reception.
- Meals Included:
- Welcome Reception
Accommodations: Sheraton Albuquerque Uptown -
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2Uncover the History of the Ancestral Puebloans
Trace centuries-old stories etched in stone by Ancestral Puebloan peoples and early Spanish settlers at the Petroglyph National Monument. Marvel at the designs and symbols carved onto volcanic rocks 400 to 700 years ago, a valuable record of cultural expression and of profound spiritual significance for Native Americans and the descendants of the early Spanish settlers. Continue to the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center as you appreciate insights into the pueblo from ancient times to modern day through the museum and art galleries. The rest of the day is yours to enjoy at leisure. Perhaps join an optional visit to Sandia Peak Tramway to ascend one of America’s most stunning urban peaks where an 11,000 square mile panoramic view awaits.
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- Breakfast
Accommodations: Sheraton Albuquerque Uptown -
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3Explore Chaco Canyon Stays With Stories Make Travel Matter
You’ll love this MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience along your Southwest Journey as you visit the Chaco Canyon inside Chaco Culture National Historical Park. Head on a field trip with your Local Specialist to Pueblo Bonito, an important “Great House” in modern day culture (should weather conditions render the dirt road to Chaco Canyon unsafe, your Travel Director will arrange visits to more accessible destinations of historical and cultural significance). Tonight, your Stays With Stories is historic El Rancho Hotel, home to many starlets in the 'Westerns' genre during the 1930s-40s.
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- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
Accommodations: El Rancho Hotel -
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4Delve Into the Legacy of the Navajo Make Travel Matter
This morning, stop at Window Rock, the capital of the Navajo Nation, where you'll see the Window Rock geologic formation and the World War II Navajo Code Talkers' Memorial and learn how Navajos helped the United States win WWII. Take a step back in time and visit the Hubbell Trading Post National Historical Site, and learn how the Navajo and settlers once traded. Delve into the story of Lorenzo Hubbell, who had a major influence on Navajo rug weaving and silversmithing. After a visit to the Canyon de Chelly Visitor Center, meet your certified Navajo Local Specialist and board your 6X6 vehicle to marvel at the stunning scenery with sandstone cliffs, canyons, and beautiful artwork in the forms of pictographs, petroglyphs and ruins in this MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience.
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- Breakfast
Accommodations: Holiday Inn Canyon de Chelly -
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5Marvel at Canyon de Chelly National Monument Make Travel Matter
See an ancient community built into a sandstone cliff as you peer over the edge of the White House Overlook to see the mastery of Ancient Puebloan construction. Watch nature defy gravity when you encounter Spider Rock and hear the legend of the mythical Spider Woman who is said to live in this towering stone spire. Enter Monument Valley National Tribal Park, a symbol of the American West with its iconic landscape of enormous rock features, including mesas, cliffs, and buttes made famous as the location for dozens of films stretching back almost a century. Meet your Navajo Local Specialist for a private guided excursion of Monument Valley in this MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience. Continue deeper into the valley while experiencing the sights of Monument Valley through the eyes of your Navajo guide. Travel along backroads and trails unavailable to the public while learning the history and local culture of the Dineh people.
- Meals Included:
- Breakfast
Accommodations: Goulding's Lodge -
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6Time Hop to Prehistoric Settlements in the Southwest Stays With Stories Make Travel Matter
Head to Hovenweep National Monument, an intriguing prehistoric settlement. As you travel through the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, stop at Southwest Colorado's leading archeological museum at the Canyon of the Ancients Visitor Center for a MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience. Then have an insightful viewing of the Ancestral Puebloan archaeological sites at Mesa Verde National Park. From the Chapin Mesa Archaeological Museum, you can see the park's third largest cliff dwelling, Spruce Tree House. This evening your Stays With Stories is at the historic Strater Hotel in Durango.
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- Breakfast
Accommodations: Strater Hotel -
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7Dive into Durango
Spend your day at leisure exploring the historic town of Durango. Choose to go farther afield taking an optional scenic drive on Colorado’s Million Dollar Highway (U.S. Route 550), from the town of Ouray, known as the Switzerland of America, to the historic mining town of Silverton. Enjoy the panoramic views of one of the most scenic drives in the U.S. as you reach the summit at Red Mountain Pass at over 11,000 ft. Take time to explore and have lunch in Silverton before heading back to Durango. You can even choose to book a ride back onboard the historic Silverton narrow gauge steam train, an unforgettable step back in time aboard a coal-fired, steam-powered train. Chug along rails originally laid at the end of the 19th century winding through a spectacular wilderness (dependent on availability and season). If you are feeling more adventurous, opt for a white water rafting trip on the Animas River.
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- Breakfast
Accommodations: Strater Hotel -
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8Discover Taos Pueblo Dive Into Culture Connect with Locals
Make your way through the mountains and into New Mexico, arriving at the Rio Grande Gorge, a geological feature where the watercourse of the Rio Grande follows a tectonic chasm. Cross the Taos Landmark Site of the Rio Grande Bridge, a steel arch bridge that stands roughly 600 feet above the Rio Grande. This afternoon, Dive Into Culture in charming Taos beginning at Taos Plaza, a Historical Landmark and artist colony in the heart of the Taos Historic District, home of 65 galleries, shops, restaurants and 21 landmarks. Join a MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience when you tour Taos Pueblo, a World Heritage Center and National Historic Landmark, with a Local Specialist. Connect with Locals who call the Pueblo home and learn about these iconic, multi-storied adobe buildings, built roughly 1,000 years ago. A piece of the past in the present, about 150 Puebloans still live within the pueblo today. Gain insight into life in the pueblo and leave with stories one can only hear from locals.
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- Breakfast
Accommodations: Don Fernando De Taos, Tapestry Collection by Hilton -
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9Uncover the High Road from Taos to Santa Fe
Start the day taking the High Road from Taos to Santa Fe and visit Trujillo's weaving shop. Dive Into Culture learning first-hand how these eighth-generation weavers use one of a kind handwoven techniques. Visit Nambe Village, an active indigenous community at the base of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains along the Rio Grande River, for a traditional feast day meal prepared by elders at the Pojoaque Pueblo Seniors Center. During this Be My Guest experience, learn more about Nambe culture over lunch and conversation. Continue to Bandelier National Monument and delve into the history of the people that inhabited this area 1,000 years ago. These fascinating cliff dwellings have been designated as one of UNESCO's Creative Cities Network, City of Design and City of Crafts and Folk Art.
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- Breakfast
- Lunch
Accommodations: Hilton Santa Fe Historic Plaza -
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10Savor the Culture of Santa Fe Make Travel Matter
This morning, we head to the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum where you will explore the complex and inspiring world of an American modernist painter. This afternoon you’ll love the eye-opening MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience where you'll meet Emigdio Ballon, the agricultural director at the Tesuque Pueblo Community Farm. Learn about this Indigenous community and their efforts to achieve food sovereignty by preserving heirloom seeds and growing their own food.
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- Breakfast
- Dinner
Accommodations: Hilton Santa Fe Historic Plaza -
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11Depart Albuquerque
Our journey through the desert landscape at its end, you will bid farewell and make your way to Albuquerque Airport.
- Meals Included:
- Breakfast
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Travelers Notes
* NOTE: This Trip falls under LEVEL 1. Please refer to the Deposit, Payment and Cancellations policies on our website. * Please refer to guest documents for transfer options on arrival day. Private chargeable transfers are available at an additional charge. Welcome desk hours are 3-5 pm and welcome reception starts at 6pm. Recommended flight arrival time by 3pm to avoid missing your welcome reception. * Departure on the last day is at leisure, guests make own departure transfer arrangements or can purchase private transfer. Please keep in mind that the the transfer from Santa Fe to Albuquerque is approximately 1.5 hours. Please allow ample time between this approx arrival time and flight departure time to allow for check-in/clearance of immigration etc (as per domestic/international guidelines for guests onwards flight).* There will be a lot of walking along uneven terrain; comfortable walking shoes, sun protection, hat and sunglasses are strongly recommended. Plenty of water should be brought by the guests. * Chaco Canyon: As there is no paved road to access Chaco Culture National Historic Park, guests will have to disembark the coach where the paved road stops, board school buses for the bumpy ride to the main highlights of Chaco Canyon. Same return back to the coach. Should weather conditions be such that unpaved roads make the journey to and from Chaco Canyon with the school bus unsafe, the visit to Chaco Culture National Historical Park will be canceled for safety reasons and replaced by other accessible sites.* Both Canyon de Chelly National Monument and Monument Valley Tribal Park will be visited by four-wheel-drive vehicles across uneven terrain. Wearing seatbelts will be mandatory or boarding will be denied on the 4WD vehicles.* The highest elevation point for this guided vacation is 8500 ft. / 2590 m.
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