Arrive Albuquerque, NM anytime today and transfer on own by complimentary airport shuttle to your pre-night hotel. Evening free on own.

Accommodation:

• Mid-Range Accommodation: Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott Albuquerque Airport

Depart Albuquerque, NM at 8:00 am and travel to Acoma Pueblo, one of the oldest continuous pueblo communities in the Southwest. Explore Acoma Sky City Pueblo on a guided tour. Learn about the history of the pueblo from when they first came to the Mesa to their interactions with the Spanish to their current day lives. Visit El Morro National Monument and walk on the same trails of the Spanish Explorers who traveled through here in the 1540s, including their signatures carved into the rocks.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation:

• Mid-Range Accommodation: Hilton Garden Inn Gallup

Experience Canyon De Chelly on a guided tour with a local Navajo. Learn about the history and traditions of those who live in the canyon currently and those who lived in this area anciently. After lunch, travel to Monument Valley and enjoy a guided Back Country Tour of Monument Valley. Along with enjoying the timeless landscape with its views and vistas, you will continue to learn about the Navajo culture with a visit to a Hogan and a discussion with one of the locals still living inside the valley.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation:

• Mid-Range Accommodation: Desert Rose Resort & Cabins

This morning you will explore Valley of the Gods and the historic Moki Dug way enroute to Natural Bridges National Monument. Here you will explore three of the 10 largest natural bridges in the world located within 1 small area. After a picnic lunch, you will travel to Hovenweep National Monument to explore and learn about the ruins of the Ancestral Pueblo people and culture that inhabited this region over 1000 years ago.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation:

• Mid-Range Accommodation: Holiday Inn Express Mesa Verde-Cortez, an IHG Hotel

Explore Mesa Verde National Park today. Visit the many Ruins, overlooks, and the Spruce Treehouse Museum while there. Afterwards, travel to Aztec National Monument and explore those ruins including a fully restored giant kiva and learn about its significance to the Ancestral Pueblo Culture.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation:

• Mid-Range Accommodation: Presidential Inn & Suites

Today you will travel south to Chaco Canyon National Monument to the heart of the Ancestral Pueblo culture and explore ruins like Chetro Ketl, Pueblo Bonito or Pueblo Alto. You will learn first-hand about the massive influence this area had on the entire southwestern US and see the different architectural influences that started here and spread throughout the area.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation:

• Mid-Range Accommodation: La Fonda on the Plaza

Enjoy the morning at Tent Rocks National Monument and the afternoon and evening relaxing and exploring historic Santa Fe.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation:

• Mid-Range Accommodation: La Fonda on the Plaza

Visit Bandelier National Monument for your final day before returning to Albuquerque by 1:00 for lunch at El Pinto! Arrive at your post-night hotel by 5:00pm, evening free on own.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Accommodation:

• Mid-Range Accommodation: Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott Albuquerque Airport

Transfer to the Albuquerque Airport on own by hotel shuttle.

Meals: Breakfast