Hopi: Seeds of Arts & Culture with Mark Bahti

Walpi, Arizona by T.J. Youvella, Coyote Clan of Polacca, Arizona ©1997

  Picture in your mind soaring scarlet mesas, crowned by multi-story adobe villages. The sky & clouds go on forever in a classic Western vista.

Join Mark Bahti,  for this enjoyable four-day journey to the Hopi Mesas in northern Arizona with Mark Bahti, author, scholar and second-generation Native American art dealer (Bahti's Indian Arts in Tucson, Arizona and Santa Fe, New Mexico. http://www.bahti.com

Picture in your mind soaring, scarlet mesas crowned by ancient multi-story adobe villages. Listen to the wind rustling through the rows of blue, red and yellow corn that grows in traditional gardens scraped from the dry earth. Do the names Old Oraibi, Hotevilla, Shongopavi and Walpi conjure up images of dancing katsinas, pottery the colors of the earth and overlay silver with stark designs in black? 

Are you ready to venture back in time to this storied and beautiful place? On this return visit to the mesas of the Colorado Plateau in Northern Arizona, we are once again joined by noted author, scholar, and second-generation Indian art dealer Mark Bahti.  Enjoy our first night at the comfortable new Moenkopi Inn, followed with two nights at the Hopi Cultural Center hotel, and topped off with a delicious night at the incomparable historic La Posada in Winslow, Arizona.

Limited to just 19 participants, cost of this personalized learning vacation includes very scenic round-trip travel from Tucson in comfortable new passenger vans (savor the comfort of just two people per wide bench seat, everyone has a window view!), pleasant accommodations, several meals (3Breakfasts,2Lunches) and fascinating experiences to last a lifetime.

Co-sponsored by Tohono Chul Park and Native Seeds/SEARCH. 

$1895 per person double occupancy. Private room is $280 additional.

Hosted by Piet and Mary Van de Mark of Baja’s Frontier Tours.

Mark Bahti enthusiasm for Indian arts, history and culture is deep and contagious! As he grew up in Tucson, Mark traveled the Southwest frequently with his father, Tom Bahti, from whom he learned the business. Mark will share his passion as we journey through scenic Arizona. Noted Indian arts dealer, scholar and prolific author, Mark's affable knowledge makes this trip one of life's memorable learning experience for those intrigued by Southwest Indian arts, history and culture.

Dennis Winsten photo

Piet & Mary Van de Mark are life members of Native Seeds/SEARCH. Piet founded Baja’s Frontier Tours in Tucson in 1966. Before joining BFT full-time, Mary directed the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum's study tours for 14 years. Piet & Mary offer Personalized Natural and Cultural History learning vacations in the peninsula of Baja California and other selected spots in the American Southwest.