Fascinating West (2024)

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Welcome. Transfer to hotel and free time. You will receive information about the start of the circuit during the afternoon, or you can check the informative panels in the hotel reception area.

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After breakfast we included a panoramic tour of this extensive city. Tour including music center, civic center and financial center, via LA Live & Staples Center. We continue along Wilshire Boulevard, heading west of the city, past the Korean Quarter and the Brea Ditch to reach Beverly Hills. Continue on Sunset Boulevard to reach Hollywood and find the Walk of Fame with its thousands of stars, the Dolby Theater, Chinese Theater and the Hollywood sign. Free time to walk and have lunch. Late in the afternoon, we include a transfer to Long Beach, where palm trees mix with the glass buildings, we will have some time in Shoreline Village to walk and dine in their lively restaurants across the Queen Mary transatlantic.

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We leave Los Angeles and stop at the Santa Monica Pier, so often depicted in Hollywood movies. Continuation to Solvang, a Danish little piece in California. Later we arrived in Bakersfield.

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TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS: Amazing forests with its sequoias. After breakfast, we set out on a journey with scenery that is completely unlike what we saw the day before. We leave the desert behind us and enter one of the most impressive forests in the USA, inhabited by an exception species: Giant Sequoias. Visit to the Sequoia National Park. Visitors can take pictures of the General Sherman, the largest tree in the world, among others, and stroll amidst these giants of nature. Then we continue to Fresno.

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TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS: Yosemite National Park. Waterfalls and mountain landscapes. After breakfast, we head for another important national park: Yosemite. Its awesome precipices, waterfalls and vegetation make it one of the most beautiful mountain landscapes in the world. We will visits its most important icons: the Captain, the Half Dome and its waterfalls. Free time for lunch. In the afternoon, we continue to SAN FRANCISCO where we arrive in the late afternoon.

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We include a city tour after breakfast. We will visit the Financial District, Union Square and its streetcars, the Theatre District, Nob Hill, the zigzaggy and flowery Lombard Street, Grace Cathedral, its famous Chinatown, the historic Haight Ashbury district, birthplace of the hippie movement. We will enjoy a panoramic view from Twin Peaks. We will take photos of the Golden Gate Bridge from the Palace of Fine Arts. We will go to Ghirardelly Square and finish our tour at the Fisherman´s Wharf and Pier 39, thus completing our seaside leisure offer. Free afternoon during which you may go on a boat tour of the fabulous bay. We include night transportation to North Beach, ¨Little Italy¨, the city’s true nightlife hub which offers a wide range of restaurants.

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TODAY’S HIGHLIGHTS: Monterey’s jetty. Carmel, and elegant tourist resort. After breakfast we leave for Monterey, with time to walk along Cannery Row, with its old canning factories, now converted into restaurants and leisure venues. After spending some free time in the city, we set out for Carmel, an attractive tourist resort where we can visit its elegant shops and art galleries. Then we continue our journey to San Luis Obispo, a pleasant town to overnight.

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Breakfast and departure towards LOS ANGELES. We will stop to see SANTA BARBARA, with its impressive Mission and its streets of Mediterranean architecture with shops and restaurants. After some free time, we continued to Los Angeles. Accommodation. At the end of the afternoon we include a transfer to Downtown Disney to enjoy its lively streets and restaurants.

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After breakfast, end of our services.