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Chaco Canyon Ancient Pueblo Indian Ruins Tour
Join us for a trip back in time to the ancient Indian cities of the Chacoan-Anasazi cultures. If you enjoy exploring ancient civilizations in remote places, and experiencing other cultures, you will love this tour of New Mexico’s ancient Chaco Canyon Indian ruins. We travel from Fairfield via an old river road to Aztec, New Mexico and then head to Chaco Canyon. After entering the park, we begin out travel back in time 1,000 years or so as we gaze in awe at the enormous multi-level apartment complexes built without the aid of beasts of burden or iron tools. The amazing story of the mysterious people gradually unfolds as we wander through their rooms, halls, and large circular ceremonial structures trying to imagine what life style and customs of these ancient people as we explore these incredible structures. About 900 years ago, the sun rose on a town that was unique in the pageant of Southwestern civilizations. Along the banks of an insignificant stream, in the heart of a shallow, semiarid depression known as Chaco canyon, dynamism gripped the local peoples and propelled them into an incredible burst of architectural activity. By the standards of their time, they built huge, skillfully engineered, and well constructed edifices. Pueblo Bonito, the great attraction of Chaco Culture National Historic Park, is a hugh stone edifice that covers nearly three acres, reaches four or five stories high in places. It is a D shaped building, a single story high and flat along most of its 250 foot face, rising like steps to four or five stories high as it curves back toward the bluff and mesa behind. Dominating the center of the lower level are two plazas punctuated by the open, staring holes of ceremonial kivas stripped of their roofs by time. In addition to Pueblo Bonito, there are other large sites: Chetro Ketl, Pueblo Alto, Casa Rinconada, Kin Klesto and Literally hundreds of lesser ones that range in size from small villages to housing for a single family. You will leave these ancient cities with a new appreciation for America’s Indian heritage past and present. Join us for a fantastic journey back in town. · Lunch provided for an additional cost (or pack you own). · Bring and wear: Camera, Binoculars, walking or hiking shoes, sweater or jacket for cooler weather, picnic lunch and spending money for park gift shop. · Included: Transportation, park fees, and our historian guide are included in the price of the tour.
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