Death Valley National Park
March 6-11, 2016— Six Days & Five Nights
Fares Per Person:
$ 1415 Double
$ 1790 Single
Drive Only
Includes:
6 days Coach Transportation
5 nights Hotel Accommodations
Furnace Creek Ranch in Death Valley
Maturango Historic Site
Scotty’s Castle
Death Valley Tours
BBQ Chuck Wagon Dinner & Hay Ride
Lunch at Furnace Creek Inn
Lone Pine Film Museum
Tour Manzanar
Visit Zabrinski Point
Gratuities and Luggage Handling
1 Breakfast— 6 Lunches—5 dinners
One of the most unique landscapes on earth!
Home to some of the hottest weather and driest climate, Death Valley National Park
is known for extreme conditions and extreme desert beauty, with vistas stretching
from towering crags to the lowest point in North America—the salty flats of Badwater Basin. Prepare to explore wildly colored canyons, the lunar landscape of a crater,
playful sand dunes, prehistoric lake beds, gaze beneath a billion desert stars, and
ride the bus into the sunset! Pause for a touch of elegance and the roaring 20’s at
Scotty’s Castle, Death Valley’s only mansion and a testament to one of the many
charismatic desert dwellers that called this valley home.
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Itinerary
Day One - Sunday, March 6:
Travel south today heading for our final destination of Death Valley. Spend our first night at the Kernville Inn, in
Kernville, CA. Dinner tonight at That’s Italian Restaurant.
Day Two - Monday, March 7:
Begin today with breakfast at Cheryls Diner . Tour The Maturango Museum in Ridgecrest, California . This museum celebrates the natural and cultural history of the Upper Mojave Desert with exhibits of plants, animals, Native
American artifacts and contemporary arts and crafts. Emphasis is given to the Panamint Shoshone, indigenous to
the area. Lunch will be on the coach today. Check into our hotel for the next three nights. The Ranch at Furnace
Creek is situated in a lush oasis surrounded by the vast and arid desert of Death Valley National Park and is the
perfect vantage point from which to explore the park! Dinner at The Wrangler Buffet and dining attire is casual.
Day Three - Tuesday, March 8:
Today our tour focuses on the Northern Valley portion of Death Valley. Death Valley comprises more than 3.3
million acres of spectacular desert scenery, rare desert wildlife, complex geology, undisturbed wilderness and
sites of historical interest. View prehistoric lake beds and rolling dunes. Death Valley was named by gold-seekers
crossing the valley during the 1849 California gold rush. Pause along the way today for a touch of elegance and
the roaring 20’s at Scotty’s Castle, Death Valley’s only mansion and a testament to one of the many charismatic
desert dwellers that called this valley home. Enjoy a picnic lunch and return to the Ranch in time to relax before
tonight’s Hayride and BBQ Dinner under the Stars.
Day Four-Wednesday, March 9:
We head out into the dessert again this morning to tour the South Valley. Death Valley is unique because it contains the lowest, hottest, driest location in North America. Nearly 550 square miles of its area lie below sea level.
Ecologically, its plants and animals are representative of the Mojave Desert. Death Valley is one of the hottest
places on earth, attaining the second-highest temperature ever recorded, 134 degrees F. in 1913. It contains the
lowest point in the western hemisphere -- 282 feet below sea level near Badwater -- as well as numerous highrising mountain peaks, including Telescope Peak at over 11,000 feet. Back at Furnace Creek in time for lunch at
the Furnace Creek Inn Dining Room with stunning views of the desert salt pans and the majestic Panamint Mountains. Dinner our last night at Furnace Creek will be a casual Pizza Party with the group.
Day Five - Thursday, March 10:
After saying good-bye to Death Valley this morning we enjoy lunch at Panamint Springs as we head to the Lone
Pine Museum of Film History dedicated to preserving the diverse movie history of California's Eastern Sierras,
including Lone Pine and the Death Valley Region. Following Lone Pine Museum tour visit Manzanar National Historic Site. In 1942 the US government detained more than 110,000 Japanese American citizens in this remote,
military-style camp, called Manzanar War Relocation Center. The historic site was established to the stories of
the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II to serve as a reminder to this and future generations
of the fragility of American Civil Liberties. Spend tonight at the Creekside Inn with dinner at the hotel.
Day Six - Friday, March 11:
Home today with a stop for lunch at JT Basque Restaurant.