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Get your bottle at the gift shop and fill it with holy water in the chapel.
Santuario de Chimayo Tours
![Very interesting place indeed. It has a peaceful yet majestic feel with beautiful desert valley views.
El Santuario de Chimayo, the tiny shrine that is built on the site of what many believe to be a miracle associated with the crucifix of "Nuestro Señor de Esquipulas"
Many visitors to the church take a small amount of the "holy dirt", often in hopes of a miraculous cure for themselves or someone who could not make the trip. Formerly, at least, they often ate the dirt.[6] (Likewise pilgrims to the original shrine of Esquipulas eat the supposedly curative clay found there.)[8] Now seekers of cures more commonly rub themselves with the dirt or simply keep it. The Church replaces the dirt in the pocito from the nearby hillsides,[12] sometimes more than once a day, for a total of about 25 or 30 tons a year.
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For anyone that is walking there I recommend sunscreen and be prepared to meet new and great people!
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Bring your own map, there's no internet signal.
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Beautiful and interesting! Chimayo was one of the highlights of our visit to New Mexico.
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