After breakfast outside we we packed and moved across the street to our new campsite at Los Suenos de Santa Fe RV Resort. We left Pepsi in the van for the day and walked to the bus stop to take the city bus #2 to downtown Santa Fe. We were let off early because the center part of the city was closed to most traffic because of a major native arts and crafts festival taking place this weekend.

Our walk to the famous plaza gave a good impression of Santa Fe as cultural and sophisticated city. We saw the Lensic performing arts centre and found a plaque that Billy the Kid was jailed for the last time in Santa Fe’s Cornell building. We walked by the original trading post from 1603 and were intrigued by the stores with beautiful pottery from different native tribes.

We enjoyed the surreal sound of a street musician who used a Swiss handpan instrument which almost sounded a string instrument.

Santa Fe has very elegant and super expensive stores that can be found in modern mall-like settings but also along the street and around the plaza.

Window shopping made us very hungry and we stopped for lunch at the La Fonda on the Plaza hotel and restaurant.

After lunch we explored a photography gallery in the hotel which sold well known photographers like Henri Cartier-Bresson and Edouard Boubat among others.

Back on the street we visited the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi which contains the oldest Madonna in New Mexico.

Next stop was the Georgia O’Keefe Museum and here we learned about Georgia’s life and art.

Our last stop for the day was in the Railyard district where we not only saw the Rail Runner train but also a number of native art booths that were set up for the weekend Indigenous Fine Art Market.

Many of the booths were already closed, but we were able to see a native fashion show.

Filled with lots of great impressions but very tired we took the city bus back to our campground and had a swim before going to bed.