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Ancient Ruins of the Southwest
Now being offered as a custom trip
Location: Four-Corners region of Colorado, Utah, and New Mexico
The essence of the "Ancient Ones" is felt throughout the Southwest. From small quartz flakes still resting where they fell from the wrinkled hands of the old maker of arrowheads, the still bright pieces of thousand year old pottery shaped by the grandmother, the fresh looking fingerprints in the long dried mud of the hidden grainary, to the massive walls of Pueblo Bonito, the spirit of the "Old Ones", the Hisatsinom of the Hopi, permeates the land.
Chaco Canyon, Hovenweep, Largo Canyon, Mesa Verde, Butler Wash, Cedar Mesa, Ute Mountain—names that echo the distant past. These are places of the Anasazi, ancestors of today’s Pueblo people. The anasazi and their contemporaries, the Mogollon, Hookham, Salida, Mimbres, Tonto, Sinagua, Patayan, called home a vast region including today’s Arizona, New Mexico, southern Utah, southwest Colorado, and lands south far into Mexico. Their Great Houses, some with thousands of rooms with massive five story walls covering many acres, were the largest buildings north of Mexico until the advent of structural steel in the 1880’s. And in the deserts of northern Chihuahua is the Puebloan city of Paquimae which covered three square miles—and had running water!
Join me to wander the interior passages of Pueblo Bonito, follow verdant canyons to secret places where quartz chips and broken pottery still lie, and gaze questioningly at beautiful abstract designs and human and animal figures carved into the sandstone cliffs deep in Largo Canyon. We’ll connect with the lands and places of the "Long Ago People", and we’ll enjoy pleasant days of photography and wonder.
Cost: $1,485/Single Supplement: $150
Please fill out the tour application and payment options below.
Registration and Payment: You may reserve a space (50% deposit or full payment) with your credit card or Pay Pal account or send a check to: Branson Reynolds, POB 3471, Durango,Co 81301
Arrival/Departure Point: Durango, Colorado
Nearest Large Airport: Albuquerque, Durango, Colorado
No 4XD driving is required on this trip
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