Three-Tribe Indian Culture Tour
Suggested Six-Day/Five-Night Tour Itinerary

Duration: Six days, five nights
Distance: 928 miles or 1494 kilometers
Begin: Las Vegas, Nevada
End: Las Vegas, Nevada
Notable attractions: Grand Canyon • guided Hualapai river rafting • Tuba City Trading Post • Monument Valley • Betatakin Ruins • Canyon de Chelly • Hubbell Trading Post • Navajo Council Chambers • Code Talkers Memorial • Navajo Nation Museum • Navajo Nation Arts & Crafts Enterprise • Hopi Cultural Center • Painted Desert • Museum of the Americas
Overview: This six-day cultural adventure tour brings your group into Indian culture, offering a unique view of Hualapai, Navajo, and Hopi land and people. Your tour includes magnificent scenic views, educational tours and talks. We can help you arrange native dancers and other cultural experiences, custom-tailored for your group.

Day 1

Travel from Las Vegas to Grand Canyon West off Hwy 93 then take the Dolan Springs Exit. Located on the Hualapai Reservation, Grand Canyon West, opened in 1988, provides a panoramic vista unequaled in Arizona of this incredible natural wonder. Located nearly 150 miles west of Grand Canyon National Park, this West Rim of the Canyon still exists as a pristine wilderness untouched by our 20th century world. No buildings, no traffic, no noise...just you and the incredible beauty of this natural phenomenon. The same Colorado River flows through the base of the Canyon yet you are seeing it from an elevation of 4800 feet. The colors, the striations, the strange yet magnificent rock formations hold a fascination for people of all ages, from all walks of life, all countries and all nations.

Continue on to Peach Springs, a trading center and headquarters for the Hualapai Indian Reservation. Enjoy dinner and an overnight stay at the Hualapai Lodge. The Hualapai Lodge is a modern, clean and comfortable hotel located near the beautiful Colorado River. If you would like to gain more knowledge about the Hualapai tribe, schedule and attend a Hualapai educational talk.

Day 2 & 3 - Option 1

Enjoy breakfast at the Hualapai Lodge’s Diamond Creek Restaurant. Take an exciting guided rafting tour down the Colorado River, with the Hualapai River Runners. The Hualapai River Runners, established in 1973, the only Indian owned and operated river rafting concern in the Canyon, offers one-day rafting trips on the incredible Colorado River from Diamond Creek to Pierce Ferry. Guided by the native Hualapai, their stories and tales of the Grand Canyon are based on Ancient lore out of the respect they bear for the Grand Canyon. Emerge from the floor of the Grand Canyon via helicopter to Grand Canyon West. Return to the lodge via Hualapai bus transport. Enjoy dinner and say overnight at the beautiful Hualapai Lodge.

After your Hualapai experience, continue on to "Explore Navajo." Visit the historic Tuba City Trading Post, just a three hour drive through beautiful mountain country. The Tuba City Trading Post has been part of the Indian Country landscape since 1870. Once you're done viewing the authentic Indian arts and crafts such as Indian jewelry, pottery, rugs, sand paintings, Kachina dolls, and clothing each reflecting the superb craftsmanship and cultural traditions of the artist. Enjoy lunch next door at the Hogan Restaurant, featuring a variety of food from classic Navajo tacos or a mutton buffet, Mexican and American cuisines and a variety of desserts before you continue on to experience a narrated jeep tour of Monument Valley with a Navajo guide, just one and one half hours further down your Navajo journey. Plan to enjoy a barbeque dinner, including a Navajo song and dance group, within the beautiful monuments and buttes of Monument Valley. After your tour, travel down Hwy 59 to view beautiful sandstone monuments, on your way overnight in Chinle, Arizona.

Day 2 & 3 - Option 2

Have breakfast at the Hualapai Lodge’s Diamond Creek Restaurant. Leave the driving to the Hualapai Guide and prepare to be amazed when you take a Hualapai guided narrarated van tour. Take a guided tour on the only road into the Grand Canyon, one of the “7 Wonders of the World.” The Diamond Creek Road is the only road into the Grand Canyon. The Grand Canyon is more than one mile deep and between four and eighteen miles wide.

After your Hualapai experience, continue on to “Experience Navajo.” Visit the historic Tuba City Trading Post, just a three hour drive through beautiful mountain country. The Tuba City Trading Post has been part of the Indian Country landscape since 1870. It contains authentic Indian arts and crafts such as Indian jewelry, pottery, rugs, sand paintings, Kachina dolls, and clothing each reflecting the superb craftsmanship and cultural traditions of the artist. Enjoy dinner next door at the Hogan Restaurant featuring a variety of food from classic Navajo tacos or a Mutton buffet, Mexican and American cuisines, and a variety of desserts. Then walk back to your room at the Quality Inn Navajo Nation. Enjoy southwestern comfort and a convenient base for exploring the richness of this land and its people.

Enjoy breakfast at the Hogan Restaurant before you continue on to experience a narrated jeep tour of Monument Valley with a Navajo guide, just one and one half hours further down your Navajo journey. Plan to enjoy a barbeque lunch, including a Navajo song and dance group, within the beautiful monuments and buttes of Monument Valley. After your tour, travel down Hwy 59 to view beautiful sand stone monuments, on your way overnight in Chinle, Arizona.

Day 4

The next morning tour Canyon de Chelly in a Navajo-guided all terrain vehicle. Tour the Canyon’s narrow, 1,000 foot high red stonewalls, and enjoy lunch within the canyon walls. Later in the day, tour and shop at the Hubbell Trading Post, America’s oldest continuously operated trading post located in Ganado, Arizona approximately thirty minutes from Chinle.

Stay overnight at the Quality Inn Navajo Nation Capital located in the Navajo Nation’s Capital, Window Rock, Arizona. The Quality Inn Navajo Nation Capital is one of Window Rock’s most hospitable places to stay featuring a friendly staff and comfortable rooms just 30 minutes further on your Navajo experience.

Take a walking tour of the historic Navajo Nation Council Chambers & Veterans Memorial Park, which are located in Window Rock, Arizona. The Council Chambers is where the Navajo Government convenes daily to discuss critical issues to determine the future of the Navajo people.

At the Veterans Memorial Park, you will see the symbolic memorials created to honor the well-known Navajo Code Talkers. For dinner that evening or breakfast the next morning, dine at the Dine’ Restaurant featuring a widely varied menu from local traditional fare including a classic Navajo taco or mutton stew to a burger and fries or a nice steak.

Day 5

Wake in the morning, to visit and view exhibits at the Navajo Nation Museum or visit and shop at the Navajo Nation Arts & Crafts Enterprise before you continue on to the Hopi Reservation.

Visit & tour the Hopi Cultural Center & Museum. Enjoy a delicious lunch at the Hopi Cultural Center Restaurant. Along with a Hopi guide, visit and tour a Hopi Village, where Hopis have lived for more than 1,100 years. Tour ancient Walpi at First Mesa, Arizona.

Day 5 Conclusion/ Day 6-Option 1

Stay overnight at the Quality Inn Navajo Nation, Tuba City, Arizona. Wake the next morning to complete your adventure in Canyon Country; which is a one and ½ hour drive to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. Visit one of the “Seven Wonders of the World” before returning back to Las Vegas.

Day 5 Conclusion/Day 6- Option 2

Stay overnight in Second Mesa, Arizona. Wake the next morning to complete your Indian Country adventure with a visit to the beautiful Painted Desert at the Navajo County Park. You will see stunning formations of red, violet, green and gray carved by the wind. There is more than 600 acres of the painted dessert to see. Travel back through Holbrook and visit the museum of Americas featuring beautiful petrified wood, dinosaur replicas and a very educational Native American Museum. On your way back to Las Vegas, stop in Flagstaff for lunch.