(14 days / 13 nights - Begins & Ends Phoenix)
Tour Itinerary
Day 01 - Phoenix/Scottsdale Arrival
Arrive at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. Pick up your rental car and proceed to your hotel.
Hotel: Days Inn Scottsdale Fashion Square or similar
Day 02 - Phoenix/Scottsdale – Tucson
Driving Distance: 117 mi./188 km.
This morning at 08:00 hours you will be met by your representative and provided with a welcome kit which includes driving instructions, vouchers, maps, and brochures of the places you are about to visit. You will have the day to explore this Valley of the Sun. Then continue to Tucson. A visit to Old Tucson is optional.
Hotel: Courtyard by Marriott or similar
Day 03 - Tucson – Tombstone – Ghost Towns – Las
Cruces Driving distance: 330 mi./530 km. Begin your day with a visit to Tombstone, site of the famous gunfight at the OK Corral between the Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Clantons. Then continue to some of the best-preserved ghost-towns to Las Cruces.
Hotel: Best Western Mesilla or similar
Day 04 - Las Cruces – White Sands – Socorro – Albuquerque – Santa Fe
Driving Distance: 285 mi./456 km.
See the brilliant white dunes of White Sands National Monument before driving through Socorro to Albuquerque where you can visit Old Town before arriving in Santa Fe, the end of the famous Santa Fe Trail.
Hotel: Santa Fe Courtyard by Marriott or similar
Day 05 - Santa Fe – Taos Indian Pueblo – Durango
Driving Distance: 269 mi./430 km.
Stroll the historic plaza before leaving for the artists’ colony of Taos. Visit Taos Indian Pueblo, one of the country’s oldest continuously inhabited settlements and still home to more than a thousand Native Americans. Then cross the Sangre de Cristo Mountains into Colorado and arrive in the cowboy town of Durango.
Hotel: Holiday Inn Durango or similar
Day 06 - Durango
A day at leisure or take an optional cliff-hanging narrow gauge railroad ride through 44 miles of precipitous scenery along the river to the old silver mining town of Silverton.
Day 07 - Durango – Mesa Verde National Park – Monument Valley
Driving Distance: 191 mi./306 km.
Visit the mysterious Native American cliff dwellings in Mesa Verde National Park. Then pass by Four Corners to Monument Valley, the universal image of the American West: fantastical shapes of buttes, mesas, and spires, rising from a desert land.
Hotel: Holiday Inn Kayenta or similar
Day 08 - Monument Valley – Lake Powell/Page
Driving Distance: 123 mi./197 km.
Today continue to Lake Powell where the red desert meets the deep blue lake.
Hotel: Super 8 or similar
Day 09 - Lake Powell – Bryce Canyon National Park
Driving Distance: 160 mi./260 km.
Beyond Kanab, once an old trading post, you will ascend the Paunsagunt Plateau to see the fanciful spires, pink cliffs, natural arches, and rock formations found in Bryce Canyon.
Hotel: Bryce View Lodge or similar
Day 10 - Bryce Canyon National Park – Las Vegas
Driving Distance: 240 mi./390 km.
Follow the Virgin River along the base of the massive canyon it created in Zion National Park.
Continue your drive to Las Vegas, the famous desert Entertainment Capital of the World.
Hotel: Imperial Palace Hotel or similar
Day 11 - Las Vegas
A full day to enjoy the myriad of attractions Las Vegas has to offer.
Day 12 - Las Vegas – Grand Canyon National Park
Driving Distance : 300 mi./480 km.
This morning stop to see one of the world’s greatest man-made structures, the Hoover Dam. Continue through Kingman and Williams on your way to the fantastic Grand Canyon.
Hotel: Yapavai Lodge West or similar.
Day 13 / Grand Canyon National Park – Phoenix/Scottsdale Driving distance: 240 mi./390 km.
After exploring the Grand Canyon this morning, drive south through Oak Creek Canyon. Then visit the scenic red rock town of Sedona before reaching Montezuma’s Castle. Continue on to your last night in Phoenix.
Hotel: Days Inn Scottsdale Fashion Square or similar
Day 14 - Phoenix/Scottsdale
Return your car at the airport before your departure flight
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