Today is the one day visitors to Acoma can climb up the footholds dug into the mesa side like people did for thousands of years before, bringing them to the top, and on September 2nd, to San Estevan’s Feast Day. Acoma feels like a tiny big city in the sky on that day, with pueblo dances, a big arts and crafts fair, especially good tamales, an incredible 360 degree view, and a spectacular adobe church. (It used to be a lot more interesting before they painted the parrots and rainbows out of it. At one time there was in indoor courtyard with a mini-corn field in the middle of it, where a golden eagle was kept in a very large cage.) Acoma will always be magical and out of time, up in the middle of the air like it is, and now there are a lot more places and activities around it for visitors.

The dances go on all day…it’s about 2 and a half hours from Santa Fe. Information and maps at the Acoma Pueblo Website, http://sccc.acomaskycity.org/

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