Day 16 - Santa Fe, New Mexico

Santa Fe is our stop-offmost eagerly anticipated by Maureen. It is an art-lovers paradise. To orientate ourselves and gather some information we joined a walking tour of the town centre's historic district. Apparently we were amongst this summers' biggest tour group of 17!

Santa Fe is culturally and historically interesting
with the inter mingling of  the Pueblo Indians and the Spanish.
It is such a visually stunning town architecturally with the different influences.

We did a morning walking tour and Maureen visited a ew galleries and Paul looked around for suitable photography opportunities. These are some photos from our walking tour.

Maureen had hoped to visit the Georgia O'Keeffe
Gallery but it was closed for a few days. However the gallery did put on free tour of the Geogia O'Keeffe Research facility which is only able to be visited by appointment. It is a beautiful house and the interior designed for the huge collection of art books collected by Georgia O'Keefe and her husband Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O'Keeffe materials such as easels and sketches. It is fascinating as it has a selection of the artists tools and examples sketches. The tour guide was  fascinating as she had a true insight into the artist and was witty and sharp for a very lively octogenarian.

Georgia O'Keefe Research Centre

As Santa Fe has height restictions on buildings it is not always
possible to have a view of the famous sunsets but our guide book
informed us that the La Fonda hotel had a balcony so we had a
drink and watched the sun go down.