Canyon De Chelly Snowflake

 

June 18-20, 2012 or October 25-27, 2012

Day 1:  Leave the Valley after a reverse pickup and travel east through th southernmoost portion of the Tonto National Forest.  You will head along the famous Apache Trail through the former silver mining boom towns of Superior and Globe, entering the San Carlos Indian Reservation.  Pass through Show Low and arrive in the historic town of Snowflake.  Snowflake was established as a Mormon Church Community by Erastus Snow and William Flake in 1878.  Here you will take an historic Walking Tour of Pioneer homes,  The tour begins at the Smith Pioneer home and contiues on by 17 other Historic buildings, fine examples of Victorian, Georgian, Greek Revival, Gothic, Colonial and Neoclassical architecture, covering about 1 1/2 miles .  You will then continue on to Chinle to spend the next twio nights.

Day 2:  This morning you will take a rim tour of Canyon de Chelly then go to the Thunderbird Lodge for lunch ( on your own) with timee to explore its gift shop.  Then join your Navajo guide for a tour down into the Canyon de Chelly National Monument to view archeological sites where some cliffs are covered with ancient pictographs and huge stone formations that rise hundreds of feet above the ground.  You will then return to Chinle for the night.

Day 3:  Today you will start for home stopping at the Hubbell Trading Post Nationa Historic Site in Ganado.  Members of the Navajo, Hopi and Zuni tribes come to sell their crafts at the trading post.  Aat the visitor center you will see weaving and silversmithing demonstrations and receive a self-guiding booklet of the site.  Leaving here you will travel through the salt River Canyon, the "Grand Canyon You can Drive into" 2000 feet deep with sedimentary rock layers visible from the road.  You should arrive back in the Valley of the Sun around 10:00 p.m.

Price Per Person: $499.00 double —-$489.00 Triple—-$479.00 Quad —$569.00 Single

7165 E. University Dr., Suite 149

Mesa, Arizona 85207

480-985-4200 or e-mail: tours@especially4utours.com

 

 

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