United States
Sierra and Canyons
14 days
In two weeks you cross from the Sierra Nevada to the Colorado and go from granite and snow to red sandstone and forty-five degrees. Each park is a different rock of a different age, and that is what keeps them from blurring into one another.
Day by day
Day 01 · Spain / San Francisco
Direct flight or one stop.
Day 02 · San Francisco
A day in the city to get over the time change before any driving starts.
Day 03 · Yosemite
Four hours east. You come in through the tunnel, where the whole valley appears at once with El Capitan on the left and Half Dome at the end.
Day 04 · Yosemite
Glacier Point, Yosemite Falls if it is spring, and Mariposa Grove with the giant sequoias.
Day 05 · Death Valley
The lowest point in North America, eighty-six metres below sea level, and the hottest place ever recorded on the planet. Badwater, and Zabriskie Point at dawn the next day.
Day 06 · Zion
Into Utah. The canyon is covered by shuttle and the walls are six hundred metres of Navajo sandstone.
Day 07 · Zion
Walking the Narrows upstream, knee-deep, between walls twenty metres apart.
Day 08 · Bryce Canyon
Not a canyon but an amphitheatre of hoodoos. Sunrise at Sunrise Point and down the Navajo Loop.
Day 09 · Antelope Canyon / Page
The slot canyon with a Navajo guide, which is compulsory, and Horseshoe Bend at sunset.
Day 10 · Monument Valley
Navajo land, with the buttes from every western ever made. A 4×4 tour with a local guide.
Day 11 · Grand Canyon
The South Rim. Four hundred and forty kilometres long, eighteen hundred metres deep, and two billion years of rock on show.
Day 12 · Grand Canyon
Sunrise at Mather Point and part of the way down the South Kaibab, to see it from the inside.
Day 13 · Las Vegas
The Hoover Dam on the way and a last night.
Day 14 · Las Vegas / Spain
Flight home.
Usually includes
- International flights, in via San Francisco and out from Las Vegas
- A hire car with comprehensive insurance and unlimited mileage
- Accommodation inside the parks where it exists, booked far ahead
- The annual national parks pass and the Navajo reservation permits
- Guided visits at Antelope Canyon and Monument Valley
- A travel document with every detail and a direct phone number
This trip, your way
Length
14 days
Route
San Francisco · Yosemite · Death Valley · Zion · Bryce · Antelope · Grand Canyon · Las Vegas
Format
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