Santa Fe Travel Blog

Grab your chain mail, adjust your codpiece and make haste to El Rancho de las Golondrinas this weekend, Sept. 17-18, for the Santa Fe Renaissance Fair. It’s a historical mash-up of all things sharp, showy and cool in a broadsword kind of way. Engage in sword fights, pirate battles, damsels in not-so-distress,...

Albuquerque BioPark © stevelarese.com You’ve been up for hours, gorged on breakfast burritos and hot chocolate, seen the sun flow from behind the Sandía Mountains and watched hundreds of balloons paint the Albuquerque sky and touch back down to earth to be packed away for another day, all before...

Put on your cowboy boots and dig out your corn dog pants, it’s the New Mexico State Fair! Rides, livestock, rodeo, horse racing, cultural music and dance, agricultural and art exhibits–not to mention freakishly large turkey legs and all manner of fried food–will thrill crowds Sept. 9-25. PBR bull...

Venture to the City Different and travel 319 years into to the past to witness the Entrada de Don Diego De Vargas–the Return of Don Diego de Vargas, Sept. 9 at 2 p.m. in Santa Fe’s historic Plaza. The re-enactment commemorates the “bloodless” reconquest of Santa Fe by the Spanish in 1692,...

Zozobra with firedancer © SteveLarese.com For the past 21 years, Ray A. Valdez of Santa Fe has created a monster. And not just any monster, but Zozobra, the 50-foot-tall bow tie-clad bogeyman who every September meets a fiery fate as the unofficial start of Fiesta de Santa Fe. “It’s a marionette,...