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Albuquerque New Mexico

Brilliant weather, enriching culture, historic monuments and places, tasteful cuisines, and exciting events and festivals, besides many other features, characterize a place called Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The largest city in New Mexico, it is a haven for both people who visit and stay there. Research shows that it is truly an excellent place to live in. Safety, clean surroundings and environment, besides the excellent sunny weather which prevails almost all the year round make living in Albuquerque a real pleasure.

For visitors too, Albuquerque has plenty to offer. Proving to be an enriching experience for all its visitors, Albuquerque has something for all to enjoy.

An ancient city with deep-rooted history spanning centuries, Albuquerque is studded with historic monuments and landmarks, which are mainly to be found at Old Town Albuquerque. KiMo Theater, Sunshine Building, and many others are some historic landmarks of the city.

For those interested in all-the-year events and activities, Albuquerque has Tricentennial Events, which divides the months, characterizing them by particular events. For example, January is celebrated as Natural History Month and hence, activities involve trips to New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, and other places. Similarly, February is Authors Month while others like August and September are for Cuisine Specialties and Albuquerque Future Path. Some package offers are also provided for visitors like Exclusive Tricentennial Packages besides others.

Apart from annual events, there are other attractions like the Sandia Peak Aerial Tramway, wineries, Petroglyph National Monument, museums like Rattlesnake museum, and many sporting events. Albuquerque hosts the Albuquerque Inter-balloon Fiesta every October, which is a truly exciting event.

For families and children, amusement centers such as Cliff’s Amusement Park, Hinkle Family Fun Center, and others exist.

Famous for its tasty cuisines, the city is filled with famous and highly acclaimed restaurants and hotels. Providing all basic and luxury amenities, hotels like Wyndham Albuquerque Airport Hotel, Hyatt Regency Albuquerque, Hilton Albuquerque, and Sheraton Albuquerque Uptown among many others hotels are perfect amalgamation of luxury, style, and southern hospitality.

Filled with amusement centers, casinos, shopping malls, exhibitions, historic landmarks, and many other monuments and activities, Albuquerque is a place for fun, frolic, learning, and enjoyment. It’s a magical place, perfect for visiting and living.

New Mexico: A Rainbow Of Cultures

Yonder, yonder the fair rainbow,

See the rainbow brightly decked and painted!

Now the swallow bringeth glad news to your corn...
Zuni corn-grinding song.

The rainbow, with its auspicious blending of colors, is the harbinger of good fortune in many cultures. This is especially true

of the native tribes in the rain-starved areas of the American southwest.

Its the rainbow-like blending of cultures - Native Indian, Spanish and Anglo-American - that enhances the "land of enchantment," the state of New Mexico.

Each culture has made a discernible contribution to the state's food, music, religion, art, architecture, traditions and attitudes.

The native tribes of the southwest manifest an admirable pride in their culture and heritage and nowhere is that pride more in evidence than in the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in the state's largest city, Albuquerque (population, 500,000). Owned and operated by the Pueblo Tribes of New Mexico, the museum exhibits a vast collection that traces the development of the pueblo culture. The center is the richest resource for the study of America's first inhabitants in the southwest.

The lower level of the museum tells the story of the Pueblo Indians from prehistoric times to the present through displays of ancient artifacts. The upper level is divided into 19 alcoves, one for each of the region's pueblo tribes, explaining their culture through their art and crafts.

Officials of the center point with particular pride to their collection of original paintings, sculptures, pottery, jewelry, musical instruments and woven rugs. They emphasize that strict standards are applied to every entry and only the finest quality work is represented. Visitors have the satisfaction of knowing that the profits from all purchases go directly to the native craftspeople.

During the summer the center proudly features Indian dances. The dances are wonderfully dexterous displays of colorful ancient skills.

The museum also boasts a restaurant that serves first class native Indian food at very reasonable prices.

Visitors traveling between Albuquerque and beautiful Sante Fe, the state capital 100 kilometers (60 miles) to the north, should avoid the freeway and travel on Highway 14, the "Turquoise Trail."

A side trip to the 3,255 meter (10,678ft) high Sandia Crest is a must. From the summit's observation deck one has a 360-degree view encompassing 28,500 square kilometers (11,000 square miles). Sandia Peak, just below the crest, boasts fabulous ski-ing and is directly accessible from Albuquerque via a 4.3-kilometer (2.7 miles) aerial tramway, the world's longest.

Back on Highway 14 visitors will travel through a series of old ghost towns that have recently been reclaimed and settled by artists and craftspeople. One such town, Cerrillos, supported 21 saloons and four hotels at its peak in the 1880s. The inhabitants were ranchers and the miners who extracted gold, silver, lead, zinc and some of the world's finest turquoise - hence the "Turquoise" Trail - from the nearby hills. Now Cerrillos remains a picturesque reminder of the Old West and has in fact been the setting for several western movies.

Shakespeare may not have approved of adding "another hue unto the rainbow", but the "Turquoise" trail adds immeasurably to the already colorful spectrum known as New Mexico.