Special 2 and 3-day
Hopi & Navajo Cultural Journeys
Having more time on Native lands allows for more experiences and a lot deeper immersion experience!

Do you have a deep cultural interest and want the special experience of spending quality time with warm-hearted hosts?
Do you enjoy experiential learning?
Does your spirit long for an ancient connection to another time?
Are you an educator or a person with a deep cultural interest?
If any of these fit you, this may for you!

Customized itineraries can be arranged for 4 or more people -- scheduled journeys listed at bottom.
Prices for 2 and 3 day trips included.
Price may vary depending on options selected.

Hopi Mesas 2-day Journey In addition to above day trip activities: spend more personal time with the People and gain a deeper understanding than is possible on a one day trip. We will visit a major remote rock art site (if permit is available), in summer and fall help with a traditional corn pit roast--an ancient way to preserve sweet corn. Participate in special seasonal activities, an evening program with music and a blessing circle, thoughtful discussions, exploration of your personal interests. Go home feeling like you have found a new family and perspective on life. Hopi artists will help you create a special rock art piece or gourd rattle to take home as a visual reminder of these heart-felt experiences. making rattles with Hopi artists in their home Learn about the importance of springs and water to Hopis, how they dry farm in the high desert. Each trip will be customized to the season, community events and interests of the participants. Purification ceremony option may be available (by donation and not included). Prehistoric Hopi image of young girls: Comments from guests from Holland who went on the Aug. 7-8, 2001 Hopi 2-day journey: "When I look in the eyes of the Hopi and Navajo people, I feel the country. They are at home with the land and they have a real way of life. I feel one with them and am not a stranger. They have so much wisdom. We in Europe have learned much, but our eyes say nothing of our heart. The people here live with their heart." Jos Jeurissen "I felt that I was affected by the environment here with these Hopi people who are so calm, warm, so peaceful--I start to get the same feelings. When I go home and have to hurry, I will think back of this experience in Hopi land, the people there--it will bring me alive more. I am able to use these memories." Rene Reulink

2-day Hopi and Navajo Cultural Journey Day trip to Hopi Mesas with overnight on either Hopi or Navajo lands and also visit Navajo land. In Canyon de Chelly, you will feel the spirit of adventure and discovery as you jeep ride with a Navajo guide through this roadless, sandy, sheer, red-walled canyon famous for its beauty and the concentration of cliff dwellings and rock art of the ancestral pueblo people from 400 BC to 1300 AD. The heart of the Navajo Reservation today, this is a sacred place in the Dine spiritual world. We will see Navajo hogans and livestock, hear their stories and songs, and experience this dynamic earth-based culture with roots in ancient tradition. Gaze or hike into the depths of the canyon from spectacular rim views, hike on a canyon trail. Historic trading posts still operate in Navajo land:   more info and photos: --Canyon de Chelly tour page --Monument Valley tour page

3-day Hopi and/or Navajo Cultural Journey 2-day journey described to left with more time with the people or more places. See some options below. Navajo can include campfire circle with song and dance and a fire blessing, backcountry hikes, Navajo cook out, visit a remote hogan of a weaver. With Window Rock option, we can visit Navajo Nation capital area, learn more about Navajo arts and history, meet with interesting people involved in different aspect of Navajo life, go behind the scenes at an historical trading post. To add Window Rock, however, decreases in depth time at Hopi and Can. de Chelly area and makes a lot more driving time. Window Rock by tribal capitol offices Can include Monument Valley . We go backcountry by jeep with Navajo guide, sunset Navajo cookout. special Navajo rodeos and fairs are a lot of fun to go to with your own personal Navajo guide, each 4th of July we offer a special trip:

2 days
$650* (per person based on 4 or 5 people; cost goes down to $575 each with 6 people) includes van transportation and jeep tour, cross-cultural guide and Native American guides, entry fees, program, Hopi dinner and breakfast, 1 night lodging: includes transportation, programs, jeep tour, reference guide, lodging. Prepayment required to reserve space.

3 days:
$850* (per person based on 4 or 5 people; cost goes down to $775 each with 6 people) includes program, transportation, guides, entry fees, Hopi dinner and breaksts, 2 nights lodging, double occupancy. Option, not included: Navajo cook-out dinner at a hogan = $20 each with min. of 4 people.

3 day private trips for 2 or 3 people can be arranged:
$1,180 (per person based on 3 people)
$1,650 (per person based on 2 people)

Purification lodge and fire blessing ceremonies, when available, are optional, by donation, and not included in price.
*plus fuel surcharge when gas is more than $3.40 a gallon

scheduled 2011 dates:

June 12-13-14, Hopi Culture, Navajo Culture and spectacular sculpted sandstone scenery at Monument Valley and Canyon de Chelly--special evening programs--with almost full moonlit evenings. June is the peak of the summer ceremonial season at Hopi. Understand the importance of ceremony and the growing season cycle of the year as we visit villages and families. Special evening circle and dinner in a Hopi home. Overnight at a Hopi Inn. Day 2 we explore Monument Valley in the morning, cross scenic byways on the Navajo Nation to Canyon de Chelly. Special evening campfire program with songs, stories, dance (optional fire blessing ceremony), meet a weaver at her remote hogan. Day 3 jeep ride into both branches of the canyon with a Navajo guide. If you are a hiker, option to hike a 1 1/2 mile trail down into the canyon and get picked up there for more exploring.

June 28-29, Hopi Cultural Immersion Journey (see above left description)

Labor Day weekend
Ancient wisdom circle, Sedona and 2-day Hopi Cultural Immersion Journey

Nov. 10-11, Hopi Journey--with focus on embracing this cosmic time of spirit rising. Special circles including connecting to energy of full moon .

Jan. 2-3, 2011
New Year's Journey
Hopi , Navajo, Canyon de Chelly special journey with blessings of the New Year

 

Other cultural experiences:
Special 4 - 6 day cultural seminars/journeys
Ancient Cultures and Spectacular Landscapes Journeys

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In depth background knowledge is provided by Sandra Cosentino enroute along with reference packet. She creates a bridge so you enter this ancient world effortlessly, naturally, in a meaningful way. Sandra is native to Arizona, a former teacher and tribal professional staff member. But more importantly, she has a passion and feeling for the land and cultures and long years of sharing friendship with Native peoples that weaves together the natural and human history into the story of our life here and now. We hope you will go home inspired and touched by your adventure into another country so different from our daily life!

Words about your guide:
"Sandra comes in a good way to the Canyon--she listens to the wind, the air, the water to be real close to Mother Earth. She likes it, wants to be with it and can be a healer to other people. She is reliable, we work together as a team."
Daniel Staley, Navajo Leader

Special Native American experiences arranged