Does listening to ghost stories work up your thirst? Then come on this tour which combines visits to bars, brothels and haunted places and sometimes all three at the same place! Stop at one of these spirited watering holes for a sip of spirits while on the tour.
When: Fridays 8PM or by arrangement Reservations Required
Santa Fe will never look the same to you again after this downtown tour! Learn about some of the prominent and notorious women who made this town home and where they lived, loved and worked.
When: Thursdays or by arrangement 1:30 PM Reservations Required
Come on the original Santa Fe tour with a unique cultural perspective! Explore New Mexico history a little more in depth with a local historian and find out how Jews were both Hispanos and Anglos. See and experience some of the German Jewish merchants' homes. Find out about the twenty-first-century Jewish community.
Bread and Chocolate: An Artisanal Epicurean Delight!
Come on a unique tasting experience where you will enjoy sampling fresh breads and crępes as well as cacao drinks and sumptuous chocolates from the kitchens of their creators. Get acquainted with the newly opened Railyard and the Don Gaspar Historic Neighborhood.
Try this adult alternative to ghost tours and explore some of the city’s more famous watering holes and hangouts, past and present, in the downtown and Guadalupe area. End the tour at one of these “colorful” places!
When: Wednesdays and Saturdays 7:30PM winter: 8:30 summer Reservations Required
Artists and Acequias: A Guided Experience of Canyon Rd/Eastside
For Budget Travelers! (FREE to $100)
Would you like to find your way in one of the older and more scenic neighborhoods with a local historian? Learn about the artists and writers who made Santa Fe one of the largest art markets in the US. See the mother ditch and find out about unique community events.
When: Mondays or by arrangement reservations required
Explore Santa Fe gardens with local gardener and historian. See what it takes to make these cool, quiet spaces in galleries, public buildings and private places.
When: Tuesdays or by arrangement 9:30AM Reservations Required
Come with the Travel Channel ghost tour guide and hear about the ever-present personalities behind the walls of both public and private buildings in Santa Fe including the two haunted houses she lived in. No gimmicks! Just good stories!
Come to beautiful northern New Mexico this fall for the 13th annual High Road Art Tour. On a lovely day trip from Santa Fe, meet the artists and learn about traditional, contemporary, and fine arts. Visit ten historic communities and sixty plus artists. Work includes sculpture, painting, photography, pottery, weaving, jewelry, crafts, and more. Tour brochures are available
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from Visitor Information Centers, local hotels, and tour sites.
For more information about the tour, bed and breakfasts, cafes and restaurants, and other tourist resources check www.HighRoadNewMexico.com or call 1-866-343-5381.
The tour is conducted by High Road Artisans, a non-profit organization promoting arts and culture as positive, integral elements of communities along the High Road to Taos. Partial funding is provided by New Mexico Arts, New Mexico Tourism Department (visit www.newmexico.org), Rio Arriba County and Taos County Lodger's Tax Boards. You, too, can help support our artists with an online contribution at www.HighRoadNewMexico.com
Support creativity at its source! The New Mexico Fiber Arts Trails are your guide to experiencing the creativity of more than 250 rural fiber artists and fiber arts enterprises. The free 64-page New Mexico Fiber Arts Trails: A Guide to Rural Fiber Arts Destinations and handy pocket brochure offer a rich tapestry of more than 60 rural New Mexico artist studios, galleries,
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trading posts, cottage enterprises, training programs and creative communities. Farms, growers, processors and suppliers connect travelers with the vital agricultural base of New Mexico's fiber arts industry. Three rural loop trails inspire self-guided explorations along the enchanting back roads of north central, northwest and southern New Mexico, where each site has a banner indicating its inclusion in the guide. ‘Fiber network sites’ provide visitors with updated Trails information in northern New Mexico, at the Española Valley Fiber Arts Center in Española, and in southern New Mexico, at The Common Thread in Silver City,
The guide’s evocative photos, site descriptions, maps and essays shepherd travelers through an integrated cycle - from raw materials, through a medley of techniques, styles, materials and creative processes, to hand-crafted works of art. Travelers can learn about rich and age-old cultural traditions unique to New Mexico, such as Navajo or Rio Grande weaving, and Hispanic colcha embroidery. Innovative contemporary fiber arts may be found, as well as unexpected forms that cross artistic media. The trails feature wearable art, tapestries, art quilts, baskets, felted items, fiber-based sculptures, handmade books, silk painting and more. The guide's calendar of major fiber events, glossary and reading list take the visitor deeper into a historically significant New Mexico creative industry. Many sites offer classes, workshops and/or supplies. Wheelchair-accessible sites are noted.
The New Mexico Fiber Arts Trails were developed by New Mexico Arts, a division of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with fiber artisans statewide. They were born out of New Mexico Arts’ commitment to creative economic development as an essential element of a sustainable rural future. We invite you to celebrate New Mexico’s diverse communities, lifestyles and landscapes through the rich textures of fiber arts. Happy Trails!
Visit www.nmfiberarts.org to download the free New Mexico Fiber Arts Trails brochure or 64-page guide, and for useful information on traveling the Trails. Or call 505-827-6490, or instate 1-800-879-4278, to request a brochure or guide by mail.
TOUR SANTA FE - A wonderful way to see the "City Different," and to learn about its 400 years of Western culture and history, and over 1000 years of Native American heritage. Visits to major historic landmarks are enhanced by the fact, fiction, lies and legends shared by the guides.
HISPANIC CULTURE - Travel to Chimayo to learn why the Santuario de Chimayo is called
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the "Lourdes of the Southwest." Hear stories of the miraculously healed. Visit weavers and artisans who have revived the techniques of their Spanish ancestors. Journey along the "High Road to Taos" and visit mountain villages tucked into the beautiful Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
NATIVE AMERICAN ANCESTRAL SITES and MODERN PUEBLOS - Tours of historic and pre-historic sites offer fascinating and different looks into the ancient lives of the Native Americans. Bandelier National Monument on the Pajarito Plateau abounds with caves carved into the soft volcanic tufa; and Pecos National Historic Park is one of New Mexico's most interesting Pueblo ruins resting beside the ruins of an old Spanish Mission. A trip to Taos Pueblo and the Taos Plaza area combines the historic with the modern.
HISTORY AND CULTURE - Travel to Museum Hill and revel in spectacular exhibits of international folk art, Indian artifacts, and life in Spanish Colonial New Mexico. A visit to the Palace of the Governors, built in the 17th Century as Spain's seat of government for what is today the American Southwest, has exhibits that chronicle the history of Santa Fe, New Mexico and the region.
Passport New Mexico, Inc. is the premier full-service destination management company for corporate groups, meetings and incentives, event planning and production in Santa Fe and New Mexico.
We specialize in custom tours, unique events, program development and comprehensive planning services.
Offerings change frequently, please let us know the dates you will be visiting and we will let you know what is on the schedule.
Sixteen miles north of Santa Fe, The Pojoaque River Art Tour, known for its tri-cultural nature, professionalism and the quality, freshness, and variety of its exhibitors, is a terrific small tour of the artists and artisans of the Pojoaque Valley, doable in a day, by car or bicycle. The route includes homes and studios and vineyards from Pojoaque Pueblo to San Ildefonso Pueblo,
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through the traditional farming communities of Nambe, Pojoaque, Jacona, Jaconita, and El Rancho, along and off of County Road 84 in northern Santa Fe County. It incudes pueblo arts, traditional Spanish tinwork and weaving, contemporary and traditional pottery, traditional and abstract painting, metal and bronze sculpture, in other words, a true reflection of the full spectrum of the artistic traditions of Santa Fe, set in the inspiring autumn beauty of northern New Mexico.
Offerings change frequently, please let us know the dates you will be visiting and we will let you know what is on the schedule.
This studio specializes in glass casting services for artists. Utilizing the lost wax casting process, the visitor will learn the stages of glass casting. Each stage of the process is explained along with examples. The studio is set in a picturesque canyon located 20 minutes outside of Santa Fe. The tour is 40 - 60 minutes long.
Comments: This tour can be
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an accompaniment to other stops north of Santa Fe. Availability must be confirmed beforehand to make sure the artist-in-residence can give the tour.
Where: Santa Fe, NM Local Santa Fe Book Stores / Amazon
Creative Tourism: A Global Conversation
This book tells how to provide unique creative experiences for travelers worldwide. But what is Creative Tourism, how is it different from other types of tourism, why is it needed, and how do you go about developing it? You'll find answers to these questions and more in this book which is based on and draws from the proceedings of the 2008 Santa Fe & UNESCO International
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Conference on Creative Tourism. Held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, from September 28 to October 2, 2008, this first-of-a-kind conference brought together delegates from 16 countries around the world to engage in a global conversation about how best to leverage the tourism sector for community and economic development. In other words, how can tourism be best organized and practiced to enhance economic benefits to cities, provinces, and countries globally?
* Paperback: 226 pages
* Publisher: Sunstone Press; Full-color First Edition edition (August 1, 2009)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0865347247
* ISBN-13: 978-0865347243
* Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 6.9 x 0.8 inches
* Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Santa Fe’s unique aesthetic tradition and concentration of arts offer the ideal environment to visitors who come to be inspired. Once in Santa Fe one may want to acquire a taste of the rich culture of the oldest capital in the United States and, often, has the desire to get involved in something one is passionate about or has a special curiosity for. Our CreativeJourneys offer
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“learning” experiences, by visiting culturally rich places and by meeting the people who has a creative story to disclose, and “hands-on” experiences that present the opportunity of expressing oneself by working with artists who will share their skills and traditions. It will always be a mutually enriching and exciting experience.
After seeing and learning from the best examples of a particular art form through the unique Santa Fe museums, galleries or at artists’ studios our guests can immerse themselves in a personal creative and engaging experience in one of the following workshops: pottery making, weaving, Native cuisine preparation&savoring, jewelry creation, native herbs picking&mixing, photography, and retablo painting. Another way to become part of the Santa Fe scene is to go out in the desert and enjoy yoga with a professional teacher followed by a full cocooning experience!
Our tours, from a few hours to 2 days long, include a personal guide, lunches, entrance fees, hotels (when applicable) and tax. Cancellation is required 48 hours prior to the scheduled tour departure time. Transportation is provided upon request.
For more information please go to www.sevendirections.net , then click on All Seven Directions Tours where you will find Santa Fe Creative Journeys. Enjoy!
Awaken your creative self and become a “Creative Traveler”!
Offerings change frequently, please let us know the dates you will be visiting and we will let you know what is on the schedule.
The New Mexico Potters Trail is a group of emerging and professional potters living and working in the Santa Fe and Northern New Mexico area. The Potters Trail is divided into 4 loops; the southern loop (from santa fe south to Galisteo and Eldorado), a downtown/ Santa Fe area loop, the Northern loop ( Dixon, Rinconada, and Ojo Sarco), and the Taos loop. We encourage visitors
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to enjoy the entire trail or to concentrate their time on one area as time allows. The Potters Trail guides visitors through some of New Mexico's most beautiful and historic rural areas as well as to the studios of some of the area's best contemporary ceramic artists and sculptors. We invite you for the weekend or just an afternoon, as our studios beckon you to experience the love of our craft, the opportunity to meet us, and the chance to take home a piece of New Mexico. For a full color copy of the entire New Mexico Potters Trail Brochure and map, contact us at; info@newmexicopotterstrail.org, or go to our website; newmexicopotterstrail.org
If you are you looking for inspiration in your daily life,if you want to experience and share amazing journeys with like-minded people,if it's a struggle to find new ways to rejuvenate, if you want to discover new cultures and frontiers
Santa Fe & New Mexico is the perfect place!
Scenic roads of Santa Fe and its surrounding. Cultural Tours in places of power
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and
inspiration, such as Bandelier, Tsankawi, Taos, Pueblos, Pecos, learn about New Mexico
culture and history, while being inspired by stunning landscape.
Offerings change frequently, please let us know the dates you will be visiting and we will let you know what is on the schedule.
