I'm so slow at posting. Sorry. But here are things we did in or around Santa Fe.
1) Hiking at Tent Rocks. Pretty cool hoodoos (huge, bizarre rock formations) and tent looking formations. Not a bad walk, there is a steep part at the end of the trail and you can choose to go up, or not, but I was glad we did because we were rewarded with really pretty views. Even if you do not, the formations are still super cool when seen from a lower level. About an hour plus outside of Santa Fe.
2) Bandelier National Monument. Interesting mountains and we could see where the ancient folks used to live and their way of life. We went during free national park week so there was no entry fee! Woot! Lingon insisted on donating $5 though. About an hour plus outside of Santa Fe.
3) Los Alamos Science Museum. I don't really have any pictures, but we went here on the way back from Bandelier National Monument, and you can go here to learn about the creation/discover of nukes. It was very interesting, considering I knew nothing about that. To me, more interesting than the nukes themselves was the excitement of the unknown and seeing how people lived. We had to show photo ID to get into the area, since it was (I think) still somewhat of a military zone.
4) Taos. Entrance fee was pretty expensive, I want to say like $20 or so per person. An area inhabited by Native Americans. They had really cool adobe houses, and with the mountains in the background, was really cool. Also seemed an hour plus away or so, aside from seeing the buildings (which were very cool), nothing much to see there, but it was something to do and I'm glad we went.
5) Downtown Santa Fe. A bunch of good restaurants. Old church. Very small. Cute. But don't expect to do too much there.
Apparently, though, George RR Martin (author of the blown up Game of Thrones) has this weird museum/art gallery/theme park thing called House of Eternal Return. Maybe if you have a spare day?
6) Art galleries in Santa Fe on Canyon Road. We took a walk down the road, lots of really cool outdoors art and probably very cool indoor stuff too, but I'm not super into art so we never really went in or tried to buy anything haha! Enjoyed the walk though!
We spend 3 nights in Santa Fe and thoroughly enjoyed it! Hope you do too!
1) Hiking at Tent Rocks. Pretty cool hoodoos (huge, bizarre rock formations) and tent looking formations. Not a bad walk, there is a steep part at the end of the trail and you can choose to go up, or not, but I was glad we did because we were rewarded with really pretty views. Even if you do not, the formations are still super cool when seen from a lower level. About an hour plus outside of Santa Fe.
2) Bandelier National Monument. Interesting mountains and we could see where the ancient folks used to live and their way of life. We went during free national park week so there was no entry fee! Woot! Lingon insisted on donating $5 though. About an hour plus outside of Santa Fe.
3) Los Alamos Science Museum. I don't really have any pictures, but we went here on the way back from Bandelier National Monument, and you can go here to learn about the creation/discover of nukes. It was very interesting, considering I knew nothing about that. To me, more interesting than the nukes themselves was the excitement of the unknown and seeing how people lived. We had to show photo ID to get into the area, since it was (I think) still somewhat of a military zone.
4) Taos. Entrance fee was pretty expensive, I want to say like $20 or so per person. An area inhabited by Native Americans. They had really cool adobe houses, and with the mountains in the background, was really cool. Also seemed an hour plus away or so, aside from seeing the buildings (which were very cool), nothing much to see there, but it was something to do and I'm glad we went.
5) Downtown Santa Fe. A bunch of good restaurants. Old church. Very small. Cute. But don't expect to do too much there.
Apparently, though, George RR Martin (author of the blown up Game of Thrones) has this weird museum/art gallery/theme park thing called House of Eternal Return. Maybe if you have a spare day?
6) Art galleries in Santa Fe on Canyon Road. We took a walk down the road, lots of really cool outdoors art and probably very cool indoor stuff too, but I'm not super into art so we never really went in or tried to buy anything haha! Enjoyed the walk though!
We spend 3 nights in Santa Fe and thoroughly enjoyed it! Hope you do too!
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