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This comprehensive tour includes everything from the gold country of California and glittering Las Vegas to the mystery of the Mesa Verde Indian Cliff dwellings. Arches, Bryce and the Grand Canyon along with the Pacific Coast contrasting with the sprawling new cities of the west make this a wild and wonderful journey of discovery.

OUR PRICE INCLUDES:

Hotel accommodation of your choice for 15 nights
A personalized AlliedTPro roadbook

NOTE: Airport transfers, car rental, taxes, insurance, meals, attractions and park entrance fees are not included.

Itinerary

Day 1: Los Angeles
Arrive in Los Angeles and proceed to your hotel. The rest of the day is at leisure.

Day 2: Los Angeles - Santa Barbara - Central California Coast
(230m/368km) This morning depart northward along the Pacific Coast Highway through Malibu and past the hillside homes of the rich and famous. Make a stop in idyllic Santa Barbara with its wide palm-lined beach and home to one of California's most beautiful missions. Continue to San Simeon located along the coast just a short distance from historic Hearst Castle.

Day 3: Central California Coast - Monterey - San Francisco
(218m/349km) Depart for Monterey and make your way along California Highway One.Visit the artists’ enclave of Carmel or take the world-famous 17-Mile Drive with stunning vistas of the rugged Pacific Coast to Cannery Row in historic Monterey. Arrive early evening in San Francisco.

Day 4: San Francisco
A day at leisure to explore San Francisco.Visit Fisherman's Wharf and shop at Union Square, home to some of the most unique stores on the West Coast.Take a drive north over the Golden Gate Bridge to Muir Woods for a look at the giant coast redwoods. On the return trip, visit the seaside villages of Tiburon or Sausalito, where you can admire the best panorama of the city.

Day 5: San Francisco - Yosemite National Park
(225m/380km) This morning depart from the Pacific Coast towards the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Crossing the Oakland Bay Bridge, pass through scenic Gold Rush Country before arriving to Yosemite National Park.

Day 6:Yosemite National Park - Sequoia National Park / Visalia
(280m/450km) Revisit Yosemite in the early morning hours for the most peaceful moments in the park. Cross through Fresno, the raisin capital of the world in the agricultural heartland of the Central Valley. Return via orange groves and the foothills of the Sierras for this afternoon’s visit to Sequoia National Park, home to the giant Sequoia trees. Be sure to take the hike through the Giant Forest grove to the massive General Sherman Tree considered to be the largest living thing on Earth. Continue to Visalia.

Day 7: Sequoia National Park/Visalia - Mojave Desert - Death Valley National Park
(305m/488km) Depart the rich farmlands of central California over the Tehachapi pass for a stark contrast in natural scenery.This is the desert country of Mojave consisting of barren landscape, cactus and Joshua Trees.The city of Mojave is home to Voyager, famous for being the first airplane to circle the earth on one tank of fuel in 1986. Continue on to the lowest point in North America, unique Death Valley National Park.

Day 8: Death Valley National Park - Las Vegas
(150m/240km) An early morning departure takes you to Death Valley National Park, an area of unexpected contrasts, containing isolated valleys, large sand dunes, sculpted rocks and volcanic craters. Enjoy the desert oasis, Furnace Creek Ranch. Drive to Zabriskie Point and its breathtaking views of the foreboding surroundings.Then on to the sparkling man-made oasis, Las Vegas, which provides a stark contrast to the barren desert.

Day 9: Las Vegas
Relax with a day at leisure. Perhaps try your hand with ‘Lady Luck’ or just lounge at poolside and soak
in the sunshine. During the evening take in one of the shows on the ‘Strip’, lined with some of the largest and most luxurious hotels in the world.

Day 10: Las Vegas - Zion - Bryce Canyon
(265m/424km) Enter the state of Utah.Travel past the town of St.George to Zion National Park. Enter the southern entrance through Zion Canyon, a spectacular gorge cut into the desert. Depart to Bryce Canyon National Park.The afternoon is available to visit some of the most colourful and interesting rock formations found anywhere.

Day 11: Bryce Canyon National Park - Capitol Reef National Park - Moab
(Canyonlands and Arches National Parks)
(270m/432km) Sunrise in Bryce Canyon National Park is a spectacular way to start this day. Continue
east through some of the largest wilderness areas in the country.Travel through Capitol Reef National
Park, an area of reef-like cliffs capped by white sandstone formations. Arrive into picturesque Moab.

Day 12: Moab
Day at leisure. Moab is a great starting point for jeep, plane, whitewater rafting, hiking or canoeing trips into the surrounding parks: Canyonlands National Park and Dead Horse State Park.The remarkable Arches National Park contains the largest number of natural stone arches in the country and makes a perfect setting for a sunset.

Day 13: Moab - Kayenta
(160m/256km) Cross the state border into Arizona. Northern Arizona is home to the Navajo indian. The high-point of this day will be a visit to the Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park. It is a remarkable landscape of red sandstone buttes and mesas rising 1,000 feet above the valley floor.

Day 14: Kayenta - Painted Desert - Grand Canyon National Park (South Rim)
(170m/272km) Depart early today for the Painted Desert, a scenic desert whose landscape changes continuously. Continue to one of the world’s most outstanding spectacles, the magnificent Grand Canyon, a world of multi-coloured hues reflected on the mile deep walls created by the eroding forces of the Colorado River. At sunset be sure to see the fantastic, ever changing panorama from Hopi point.

Day 15: Grand Canyon - Seligman / Route 66 - Laughlin
(220m/352km) View the Grand Canyon at sunrise. Depart south via Williams and continue west to Seligman.This was once a bustling town on America’s mother road Route 66 and prides itself as one of the last original outposts of the highway. The stretch from here to Kingman is the longest remaining portions of the historic road. Stay in Laughlin along the banks of the Colorado River.

Day 16: Laughlin - Palm Springs - Los Angeles
(280m/448km) Depart for Palm Springs, an oasis of golf courses and resorts located in heart of the Cochella Valley. Make sure to stop in the Desert Museum for an informative interpretation on desert flora and fauna. Continue the leisurely drive through San Bernardino and the San Gabriel Valley en route to Los Angeles.

WILD & WONDERFUL WEST		16 days/15 nights Los Angeles/Los Angeles, Las Vegas/Las Vegas* or San Francisco/San Francisco*
Departing daily 01 April 2007 to 31 March 2008
Per Person	Date	Twin	Single

Standard Accommodation	01 Apr 08 - 31 Oct 08	£468	£921
	01 Nov 08 - 31 Mar 09	£394	£775

Superior Accommodation	01 Apr 08 - 31 Oct 08	£603	£1,201
	01 Nov 08 - 31 Mar 09	£487	£974

Note: Click here for information on car hire * Tour can be taken as per above itinerary commencing in Las Vegas (as per day 9) and ending 16 days later, or commencing in San Francisco (as per day 4) and ending 16 days later.