Largo also offers customized tours of Monument Valley, a striking landscape of red rock spires and towers. Both Tsosie and Largo arrange custom programs geared to a family's interests. Options besides hiking and horseback riding include learning how to make a traditional meal of dumpling stew and blue-corn tortillas as well as trying Navajo pottery techniques. Larger than tents, hogans are big enough to stand up in, but like tents, hogans do not come with running water or bathrooms. For those who crave hot water and indoor plumbing, both companies can arrange day trips.
Prices vary with experience.
Box 91-B, Tsaile. Montana The brown hills edged with pine trees seem to stretch for miles as we horseback ride across the Cheyenne Indian Reservation, Montana. He picks western yarrow for us, telling us to rub the yellow flowers between our fingers. The plant releases a camphor-like smell. Mixed with leaves, yarrow is used to stop blood oozing from a wound.