Albuquerque is where the sun turns the mountainous backdrop of the high desert into a purple-tinged landscape set against a multicolored sky. Add hundreds of hot air balloons, and it becomes a majestic setting filled with colors. An old Spanish colony from the 1700s, Albuquerque contains historic adobe buildings that still echo the city’s Spanish past, with hues of red and deep orange splashed across the walls of the town.
