Santa Fe Travel Blog

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYnPiMxJcxg[/youtube]Grab your breakfast burrito and camera, it’s the 40th annual Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, Oct. 1 through Oct. 9. The largest ballooning event in the world sees 750 balloonist from around the globe gather in the Duke City for...

Take the High Road to Taos this weekend for the 37th annual Taos Fall Arts Festival. The best artists in this world-famous art town share their work and explore ideas, and the public has the opportunity to make purchases at excellent prices. Held at the Taos Convention Center (120 Civic Plaza Drive)...

Martinez Hacienda © SteveLarese.comTravel to Taos and travel back in time this weekend to the 24th annual Taos Trade Fair at La Hacienda de los Martinez, Sept. 24 10 a.m.-5 p.m, and Sept. 25 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Demonstrations depicting life in the mid-1800s, historic re-enactments, mountain men encampments,...

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...

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,...

Weaving through a sea of humanity at the Santa Fe Indian Market, I can’t help but think of a line from the Navajo Beauty Way prayer: “With beauty around me I walk… .” I’m one of about 100,000 people who have descended upon City Different for the annual buying frenzy that is...

Gallup becomes a swirl of color and culture during the 90th annual Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial, Aug. 10-14. Dancers, artisans, musicians, vendors and families from tribes across North America and Mexico gather in Gallup for a week of celebration and communion. Begun in 1922 by the Gallup Kiwanis Club...

El Rancho de las Golondrinas celebrates the culture of Mexico and the beauty of lavender this month. ¡Viva Mexico! brings the music, art, dance, cuisine and more of Mexico to the living history museum the weekend of July 16 and 17. Marvel at the Flying Men from Veracruz, who soar by their feet from...

Journey to Taos Pueblo and joins thousands of others to celebrate the 26th annual Taos Pueblo Pow Wow, July 9 and 10. Hundreds of dancers from across North America gather for a weekend of competition and camaraderie. Grass, fancy, regional, shawl, jingle and other dances are performed throughout both...