Day 1 - Arrive Albuquerque. Accessible transfer to hotel. Get acquainted dinner. Stay one night.

Day 2 - Travel to and explore Santa Fe, settled by the Spanish in 1607. You will most certainly enjoy all you see and experience in this nearly 400 year old city. Stay 2 nights.

 
 
Day 3 - Today we'll visit Bandelier National Monument, where remnants of an ancestral pueblo community exist as pueblo and cliff dwellings. Then, enjoy some of the same views that Georgia O'Keefe did, as we drive past Ghost Ranch and Abiquiu.

Day 4 - We'll travel through beautiful country to the 4-corners region (where Utah, Colorado, Arizona & New Mexico meet) and Colorado today, on our approach to Mesa Verde. Stay two nights.


 
 
 
Day 5 - Enter Mesa Verde National Park , one of the nation's major archaeological preserves, consisting of more than 4,000 archaeological sites and 600 cliff dwellings. An altogether thrilling place!
 

 
Day 6 - We drive northerly today to Moab, Utah. There will be an especially interesting stop at Newspaper Rock, in Canyonlands National Park, which is a wall of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs, two forms of ancient rock art. Stay two nights.
 

 
Day 7 - Arches National Park is near Moab, and contains the largest number of natural stone arches in the country. Along with over 1,800 arches are many redrock canyons, spires, fins and balancing rocks to photograph.

Day 8 - We're off to Salt Lake City, about 250 miles northwest, through a real variety of country, including an alpine pass. Farewell dinner.
 
Day 9 - Depart from the West today with unforgettable memories.

Specially included:  Arrival Dinner, All Admissions, Farewell Dinner*

Cost: $1,990 per Person, Double Occupancy - $525 Single Supplement

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