7-Day Tour across Los Angeles,Phoenix, Sedona, and Las Vegas

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

Day 1
Los Angeles --Salvation Mountain --Phoenix
5 stops
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Los Angeles
In the morning, we will leave from Los Angeles and head to Palm Springs to visit the Sunnylands. We will head first to the famous Shields Date Garden where Arabian date palms are abundant. Shortly after, we will pass through the boundless Shaddon Sea and head to Salvation Mountain! Here, you can capture some of the most beautiful pictures! Finally, we will arrive in Phoenix, the capital of Arizona, to visit the state capital building, and stay overnight in Phoenix. Itinerary: Los Angeles → Sunnylands (45 mins) → Shields Date Garden (60 mins) → Salvation Mountain (30 mins) → Phoenix → Arizona Capitol Museum (outside visit) **Phoenix city group guests will go to the hotel by themselves to check-in on this day. (This is a business hotel with breakfast located and provided near the airport with a shuttle bus transfer). Hotel Address: 427 N 44th St, Phoenix, AZ 85008.
10 hours • Admission ticket free
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Welcome to the Sunnylands! The construction of the Sunnylands estate began in 1963. When the Annenbergs were in residence, the main house hosted a significant art collection acquired by the couple. It contained works of Picasso, Van Gogh, Andrew Wyeth, and Monet. Many of their paintings were donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art following Walter Annenberg's death in 2002. The house is hidden from public view, however there is a pink-brick wall surrounds the estate. Take a special look of the hundreds of eucalyptus and olive trees located around the estate.
45 minutes • Admission ticket free
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Shields Date Garden
1 hour • Admission ticket free
4
Salvation Mountain is located in the lower desert of Southern California. Salvation Mountain is Leonard's tribute to God and his gift to the world. It has a simple yet powerful message which states: "God Is Love." Leonard's passion has lovingly created this brilliant "outsider art" masterpiece with not only biblical and religious scriptures of John 3:16, and the Sinner's Prayer. But it also includes flowers, trees, waterfalls, suns, bluebirds, and many other fascinating objects that are perfect for you to discover.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free
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Arizona Capitol Museum (outside visit) Join us as we take a special look at the Arizona Capitol Museum building. It is made largely from materials indigenous to Arizona. The materials include malapai, granite and the copper dome. The design is optimal for the desert climate of Arizona. The building is topped with a weathervane similar to the Winged Victory of Samothrace which is seen visible through a skylight from within the rotunda.
Admission ticket free
Day 2
Phoenix-- Saguaro National Park --Deming
6 stops
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Join us for another adventurous day as we travel to the famous Biosphere 2. Following, we will head to the Pillars of Giants National Park to admire various cacti, shrubs, flowers and so much more. Next, we will head to the Sonora Desert Museum, which is one of the most popular attractions in Tucson, Arizona. Shortly after, we will proceed to visit the beautiful Cathedral of Saint Xavier, which is considered to be the best preserved Spanish colonial building in Arizona. Afterwards, we will take a look at the Pima Air and Space Museum and spend the night in Deming, New Mexico. Itinerary: Phoenix → Biosphere 2 (60 mins) → Saguaro National Park (50 mins) → Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum (55 mins) → San Xavier del Bac Mission (90 mins) → The Pima Air & Space Museum (60 mins) → Deming
1 hour • Admission ticket free
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Biosphere 2 is an American Earth system science research facility located in Oracle, Arizona. Its mission is to serve as a center for research, outreach, teaching, and lifelong learning about Earth, its living systems, and its place in the universe. It is a 3.14-acre (1.27-hectare) structure originally built to be an artificial, materially closed ecological system, or vivarium. It remains the largest closed ecological system ever created.
1 hour • Admission ticket included
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Saguaro National Park
Tucson, Arizona is home to the nation's largest cacti. The giant saguaro is the universal symbol of the American west. These majestic plants, found only in a small portion of the United States, are protected by Saguaro National Park, to the east and west of the modern city of Tucson. Here you have a chance to see these enormous cacti.
50 minutes • Admission ticket included
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Founded in 1952, the Museum is regularly listed as one of the top ten zoological parks in the world due to its unique approach in interpreting the complete natural history of a single region. Not a “museum” in the usual sense, it is an unparalleled composite of plant, animal, and geologic collections with the goal of making the Sonoran Desert accessible, understandable, and valued.
55 minutes • Admission ticket included
10
Mission San Xavier del Bac
Mission San Xavier del Bac is a historic Spanish Catholic mission located about 10 miles (16 km) south of downtown Tucson, Arizona, on the Tohono O'odham Nation San Xavier Indian Reservation. The mission that survives today was built between 1783 and 1797, which makes it the oldest European structure in Arizona. Labor was provided by the O'odham.
1 hour 30 minutes • Admission ticket free
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The Pima Air & Space Museum is located in Tucson, Arizona. It is one of the world's largest non-governmental funded aerospace museum. This museum features a display of nearly 300 aircrafts that are spread out over 80 acres (320,000 m²) on a campus occupying approximately 127 acres (513,000 m²). It has also been home to the Arizona Aviation Hall of Fame since 1991.
1 hour • Admission ticket included
Day 3
White Sands National Park --Carlsbad Caverns National Park --Roswell
3 stops
12
Rise and shine! Today we will head to the famous White Sands National Park in New Mexico! It is easily one of the most famous and breathtaking natural wonders of the world. Then, we will set off to the Carlsbad Caverns National Park. This park was named after the large and small stalactites that are hung throughout the cave. Finally we will head to the world-famous UFO capital-Roseville and stay there overnight. Itinerary: Deming → White Sands National Park (45 mins) → Carlsbad Caverns National Park (90 mins) → Roswell
15 minutes • Admission ticket free
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Rising from the heart of the Tularosa Basin is one of the world's great natural wonders - the glistening white sands of New Mexico. Great wave-like dunes of gypsum sand have engulfed 275 square miles of desert, creating the world's largest gypsum dunefield. White Sands National Park preserves a major portion of this unique dunefield, along with the plants and animals that live here.
45 minutes • Admission ticket included
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Carlsbad Caverns National Park Visitor Center
High ancient sea ledges, deep rocky canyons, flowering cactus, and desert wildlife—treasures above the ground in the Chihuahuan Desert. Hidden beneath the surface are more than 119 caves—formed when sulfuric acid dissolved limestone leaving behind caverns of all sizes.
1 hour 30 minutes • Admission ticket included
Day 4
Roswell--Santa Fe --Albuquerque
3 stops
15
Today we will proceed to visit the old town of Santa Fe. Afterwards, we will visit Albuquerque which is known as the hot air balloon capital of the world! We will take you to visit the Hot Air Balloon Museum to learn all about the history of hot air balloons! After a day full of adventure we will head back over and stay overnight in Albuquerque. Itinerary: Roswell → Santa Fe Plaza (60 mins) → Albuquerque → Hot Air Balloon Museum (45 mins)
20 minutes • Admission ticket free
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Santa Fe Plaza
The Santa Fe Plaza is a National Historic Landmark in downtown Santa Fe, New Mexico in the style of traditional Spanish-American colonial cities. The plaza, or "city-square", was originally, and is still to this day, the center gathering place in town. Many know it as "the heart of Santa Fe". The landmark has since grown into a playground for many tourists interested in Spanish, Native American, and Mexican cultures, and includes music, design, jewelry, art and dance. Known to locals simply as the "Plaza," it is home to annual events including Fiestas de Santa Fe, the Spanish Market, the Santa Fe Bandstand, and the Santa Fe Indian Market. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the plaza consists of a central park lined with grass, trees, and benches.
1 hour • Admission ticket included
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The Balloon Fiesta Park, is a huge field that hosts the Albuquerque Hot Air Balloon Fiesta each year. It functions as the Hot Air Balloon Museum and training ground normally. On a weather permitting morning, you can see over 500 balloons inflate and take flight. Follow us to learn about the history of hot air balloons and enjoy the 3D film of hot air balloons!
45 minutes • Admission ticket free
Day 5
Gallup --Petrified Forest National Park --Sedona
4 stops
18
Albuquerque
Today, we will head to Gallup, New Mexico! We will take in all the unique beauty and then head to Petrified Forest National Park! This park is the largest and most beautiful petrified forest in the world. Following, we will take a look at the Meteor Crater which is located on a plateau on an altitude of 1,740 meters. It is truly incredible to see and is one of the largest craters in the world! We will enjoy a day filled with incredible memories and stay overnight in Sedona. Itinerary: Albuquerque → Gallup (45 mins) → Petrified Forest National Park (2 hours) → Meteor Crater Natural Landmark (45 mins) → Sedona
1 hour 30 minutes • Admission ticket free
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The city was founded in 1881 as a railhead for the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, and named after David Gallup, a paymaster for the railroad. It is on the Trails of the Ancients Byway, one of the designated New Mexico Scenic Byways. Because of the nearby rugged terrain, it was a popular location in the 1940s and 1950s for Hollywood Westerns.
45 minutes • Admission ticket free
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Petrified Forest National Park is an American national park in Navajo and Apache counties in northeastern Arizona. Named for its large deposits of petrified wood, encompassing semi-desert shrub steppe as well as highly eroded and colorful badlands. The site, the northern part of which extends into the Painted Desert, was declared a national monument in 1906 and a national park in 1962. The Petrified Forest is known for its fossils, especially fallen trees that lived in the Late Triassic Epoch, about 225 million years ago.
2 hours • Admission ticket included
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Meteor Crater is a meteorite impact crater about 37 mi (60 km) east of Flagstaff and 18 mi (29 km) west of Winslow in the northern Arizona desert of the United States. Despite historic attempts to make the crater a public landmark, the crater remains privately owned by the Barringer family to the present day through their Barringer Crater Company, which proclaims it to be the "best-preserved meteorite crater on Earth".It was designated a National Natural Landmark in November 1967.
45 minutes • Admission ticket included
Day 6
Sedona --Route 66 --Las Vegas
3 stops
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Sedona
In the morning, we will head to Sedona to visit the local architectural landmark of the strongest rumored magnetic field known as the Church of Santa Croce. In the afternoon, We will drive on the famous Route 66 and head to Las Vegas! Itinerary: Sedona (3 hours, optional for Sedona Trolley) → Drive on Route 66 → Hoover Dam (Pass by) → Las Vegas
30 minutes • Admission ticket free
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Sedona (3 hours spend at sedona, optional admission fee for Sedona Trolley) Sedona's main attraction is its array of red sandstone formations. The formations appear to glow in brilliant orange and red when illuminated by the rising or setting sun. The red rocks form a popular backdrop for many activities, ranging from spiritual pursuits to the hundreds of hiking and mountain biking trails.
3 hours • Admission ticket not included
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Hoover Dam Bypass
Hoover Dam (Pass by) U.S. Route 66 or U.S. Highway 66 (US 66 or Route 66), also known as the Will Rogers Highway, the Main Street of America or the Mother Road, was one of the original highways in the U.S. Highway System. US 66 was established on November 11, 1926, with road signs erected the following year. The highway, which became one of the most famous roads in the United States, originally ran from Chicago, Illinois, through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona before terminating in Santa Monica in Los Angeles County, California, covering a total of 2,448 miles (3,940 km). It was recognized in popular culture by both the hit song "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66" and the Route 66 television series, which aired on CBS from 1960 to 1964. In John Steinbeck's classic American novel, The Grapes of Wrath (1939), the road "Highway 66" symbolized escape and loss.
Admission ticket free
Day 7
Las Vegas --Los Angeles
3 stops
25
Las Vegas
Explore with us a unique and mysterious destination at the Death Valley National Park. It is the lowest point on the North American continent and the largest national park in the mainland. After exploring the national park we will drive back to Los Angeles! Itinerary: Las Vegas → Death Valley National Park (2.5 hours) → Los Angeles
Admission ticket free
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Death Valley National Park
In this below-sea-level basin, steady drought and record summer heat make Death Valley a land of extremes. Yet, each extreme has a striking contrast. Towering peaks are frosted with winter snow. Rare rainstorms bring vast fields of wildflowers. Lush oases harbor tiny fish and refuge for wildlife and humans. Despite its morbid name, a great diversity of life survives in Death Valley.
2 hours 30 minutes • Admission ticket included
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Las Vegas
Kindly Reminder: 1. This product can only be booked by guests who hold a US passport, Permanent Resident Card or other visas to stay in the US legally. 2. If you choose to depart/drop off the group in Las Vegas, you cannot visit the Death Valley on that day: A free airport drop-off service will be provided at 11:00 from the Las Vegas hotel on the last day of the trip. It is recommended to book a domestic flight departing after 13:30 or an international flight departing after 14:30 from LAS Airport. 3. If you choose depart/drop-off in Los Angeles: It is recommended to book a domestic flights departing after 21:30 and an international flight departing after 22:30 from LAX Airport.
Admission ticket free

Additional info

• Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels
• Age and Safety: Customers under 18 must be accompanied by an adult. Pregnant women may join if under 24 weeks by the trip's end.
• What to Bring: Comfortable shoes and clothes, sun hat, sunglasses, sunscreen, cash, and drinks for hydration.

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