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Chaco
Canyon, New Mexico
Tour
Alert: Reserving Now!
Native
Seeds/SEARCH will Sponsor
Chaco
Culture Archaeology & Agriculture
www.nativeseeds.org
October
10-15, 2013!
Get into Chaco Culture with
Archaeologist Gwinn Vivian!
What
to expect on this unique learning vacation...
For
several wonderful fun-filled days your life will be in Ruins...
And the
scenery's spectacular!
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October 18-22, 2012
was very successful, thank you all! Chaco
Canyon is offered again: October 10-15, 2013
Don't miss
this one!
We are pleased to co-sponsored this
program with Tucson's Native Seeds/SEARCH
www.nativeseeds.org
Please call for information
anytime
QUESTIONS &
RESERVATIONS?
We will send you a
brochure as soon as it's available
EMAIL: piet@bajasfrontiertours.com
Contact Piet & Mary Van de Mark by phone:
(520) 887-2340
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We are pleased to
bring you excellent comfort and enjoyment on this program. |
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Chaco remains
remote and cannot be visited, let alone fully appreciated, by motor coach.
We choose very comfortable new passenger vans, and limit the
participation so that only two guests will occupy each 3-person seat. |
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Everyone will enjoy
window seat views and spacious comfort.
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Imagine!
Market
Day at Chaco Canyon a millennium ago... thousands of people have gathered
at Pueblo Bonito... come afoot from far, far away: Mesa Verde, Paquimé,
Central Mexico... Screams of bright macaws echo off sandstone walls.
Shells from the Sea of Cortez sparkle in the desert sunshine. Stones and
gems, skins, wood, pottery, foods and seeds from far-off lands are
bartered.
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For reasons still debated,
this entire civilization crumbled. Or did it just change? How? Why? Who
went where? And when? Come discover the possibilities! Know the immense
beauty of this remote place: Chaco Culture National Historical Park, a
World Heritage Site, New Mexico. Join Piet and Mary for this wonderful
learning adventure with second-generation Chaco archaeologist Dr. Gwinn
Vivian.
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Gwinn literally grew up at Chaco. He will introduce you to the science and
theories surrounding the strategies and techniques that Chacoan farmers
used to adapt to their harsh environment. We will begin with an
overview of Chacoan culture in Chaco Canyon and then trace the expanding
Chacoan system as it moved throughout the San Juan Basin. Our
exploration takes us not only to well known sites such as Pueblo Bonito
but to significant and seldom visited Chacoan outliers including
Pierre’s, Kin Bineola and Kin Ya’a. In these days you will see natural
beauty and human history that may well change your life! |
Gwinn Vivian arrived at Chaco at age one, and did
his first archaeology in Chaco Canyon at the age of three. He has
devoted much of his life since to interpreting Chacoan culture. Gwinn is
especially interested in Chacoan water control systems, agriculture and roads, which
he believes were critical aspects of Chaco culture growth in the 11th
century. Since leaving the Arizona State Museum in 1999 he has devoted
much of his time to writing and to building a straw bale house in NE
Arizona. Dr. Vivian’s The Chaco Handbook: An Encyclopedia Guide
has been called “...the best single volume introduction available to
explain Chaco.” It will enhance your enjoyment of this trip. |
 Mary's
lifetime in Arizona plus over two decades of natural history education
experience, including her fourteen years at the Arizona-Sonora Desert
Museum’s Education Department, continue to assure BFT's fans an
enjoyable and professional interpretive focus. BFT produces personalized
learning vacations that appeal to guests with a wide range of interests
and physical abilities. Mary's love of arts, history, great food and
friendly, curious people keep her on the go. Scouting new and special
spots to share is an enjoyment for Mary and her husband Piet. Mary's
passion for desert flora, ethnobotany and her informative nature
interpretations continue to be enjoyed by all.
Piet’s
passion for Baja California, Mexico's natural beauty bloomed on a personal
odyssey in the summer of 1962. Baja's Frontier Tours began with 4WD
camping expeditions—Personalized Wilderness Travels—with
Piet’s founding of BFT in Tucson, Arizona in 1966. Programs
gradually evolved into the enjoyable and unique learning eco-vacations—Personalized
Natural & Cultural History—that Mary and Piet's guests share
today in the Baja California peninsula, plus other selected locations in
Mexico and in the American Southwest . The variety and quality of BFT's
offerings continue to grow with each passing year. |
 Imagine! Who walked through these doors before
you came? And where on
earth did they go? Gwinn will share his knowledge of
this. And more...
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Impressive Pueblo Bonito! 
© Nancy Bower Photo 2012
QUESTIONS &
RESERVATIONS?
Contact Piet & Mary Van de Mark by phone:
520-887-2340 (Tucson, Arizona)
Toll
Free: 1-800-726-7231
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| We are pleased to
bring you excellent comfort and enjoyment on this program. Of course, Chaco
is remote in lovely northwestern New Mexico, and cannot be visited, let alone fully appreciated, by motor coach.
We limit registration and bring enough comfortable new passenger vans so that only two
people will occupy each wide 3-person seat. Every guest will enjoy
their own window seat and spacious comfort. Space is limited. |
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Please
click on their image to be directed to Travel Insured's website to learn
more and to purchase travel insurance for your learning vacation with
us.
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We strongly recommend the
purchase of travel and trip cancellation insurance to secure your vacation
investment.
Travel Insured
International has provided our guests with excellent service for many
years.
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Another
unique Learning Adventure experience from Baja's Frontier Tours.
Co-sponsored with Tucson's world-famous
Native Seeds/SEARCH.
www.nativeseeds.org
Tucson’s
Native Seeds/SEARCH has just celebrated it’s 30th year of
gathering and caring for traditional seeds of the Greater Southwest
with as much urgency and sense of importance as did the inhabitants of
Chaco long ago. They are working to preserve an incredible legacy that
reaches back across the centuries. Bill McDorman and Belle Starr
- Co-directors of NS/S - will accompany our learning adventure to
share their knowledge, passion and enjoyment while visiting this
wonderful place.
 "There
are few places on earth that have moved us to the core of our being like
Chaco Canyon. Having been
there only once, and knowing we can go again with someone as knowledgeable
as Gwinn, is an opportunity we won't pass
up/ We hope you will join us, too!" Bill & Belle.
QUESTIONS &
RESERVATIONS?
October 10-15, 2013
Small
group of just 18 guests.
Our
comfortable accommodations include 3 nights at Farmington, New
Mexico's lovely Courtyard Marriott, snuggled on the banks of the
delightful Animas River; enjoy the peace, beauty and wildlife as
you stroll the quiet River Walk that begins right outside our
hotel.
Spacious seating in new
vans: just 2
guests per wide bench seat.
Everyone enjoys their own window
seat!
$2395 per
person, double occupancy
Private
rooms available at $325 additional
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Call Mary & Piet Van de Mark at Baja's
Frontier Tours
October
10-15, 2013
(520)
- 887-2340 (Tucson, Arizona)
Reserving now.
Email:
piet@bajasfrontiertours.com
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Contact Piet & Mary Van de Mark by phone:
520-887-2340 (Tucson, Arizona)
Toll
Free: 1-800-726-7231
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Please call Piet & Mary at (520)
887-2340 in Tucson, Arizona
for reservations and with any questions.
QUESTIONS &
RESERVATIONS?
Toll
Free: 1-800-726-7231
©Baja's
Frontier Tours LLC Tucson, Arizona 2009
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