Taos was awesome. It’s a small and quiet town at the bottom of the mountains. We drove down to Santa Fe through High Road, the scenic route. It took us about two hours to get to Santa Fe, and I was amazed by the changing of scenery and landscape. It was nothing like what I’ve seen before. The culture and everything is so different from what I know.
We stopped at a small town called Las Trampas. There is the famous San José de Gracia Church. It’s an adobe construction. I am always astonished by how people used to build these old buildings with simple materials like straws and mud, and it would stand there for centuries.
We somehow decided to stopped at Chimayo. Without any plan, we arrived at the right timing to see the Palm Sunday pilgrimage at the Santuario de Nuestro Señor de Esquipulas chapel. I was absolutely surprised by the crowd and the ceremony because it was my first time to see a pilgrimage, not even when I was living in Taiwan. And, not to mention that it is a religion and culture that I am not familiar with. It was certainly a great experience for me that opened my eyes.
Yi-Chin Lee and Photography 