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                  Two Weeks in the Southwest

                  •   Taste the high life in    mushroom-shaped   through the Cliff Palace
                   Las Vegas, then make a   hoodoos in Goblin   Ancestral Puebloan cliff
                   bee-line for the “Beehive   Valley State Park.  dwelling in Mesa Verde.
                   State” of Utah.  •   Get adventurous in   •   Channel your inner
                  •   Take a riverside stroll in   Moab, and head up    cowboy beneath the
                   ravishing Zion Canyon,   to the rocky spans of   mighty buttes of
                   and get lost among the   Arches National Park   Monument Valley.
                   spiked rock formations   and the hundred-mile   •   Abandon yourself to
                   of Bryce Canyon.  vistas of Canyonlands.   the abyss at Grand
   Green River  Arches                              Canyon’s South Rim.
           National  •   Hike to the hidden oasis   •   Thread through the
           Park    of Calf Creek Falls and   Rockies on the San Juan   •   Motor back to Las Vegas
 Goblin Valley
      Green
 State Park  Dead Horse  wander among the   Skyway, then clamber   on legendary Route 66.
      Point  Moab
 Capitol Reef  State Park
 National Park                                    Key
   Canyonlands               Ouray
           La Sal
 UTAH  National Park  Junction  Telluride            One Week Tour from
                             Red Mountain Pass       Albuquerque
 Calf Creek
 Navajo  Falls          Silverton                    One Week in Arizona
 Loop
 Zion  Colorado  River  Hovenweep                    Two Weeks in the Southwest
 National Park  Bryce Canyon  National  COLORADO
 National Park  Monument
                           Durango
 Lake
 Virgin  River  Monument  National Park  Navajo
 Powell
                    Mesa Verde
                               Reservoir
         Valley
                                                 Taos
   Navajo                                        Pueblo
   National Monument
 Lake                                           Taos
 Mead
 Las  Colorado River  Grand
 Vegas  Hoover Dam  Hopi Point  Canyon Grandview  Canyon de Chelly
       National
 Grand Canyon  Point  Monument  Chaco Culture  Chimayó
 Village  Desert View   National
                       Historic Park    Santa Fe
                                            Turquoise
 Museum of                                  Trail
 Seligman  Northern Arizona
 Flagstaff
                                        Albuquerque
 Walnut Canyon
 Sedona  National           Acoma
 Monument                   Pueblo
 Montezuma Castle
 National Monument  ARIZONA  NEW MEXICO          0 miles        100
                                                 0 kilometers  100
 Tonto
 National
 Taliesin  Monument               One Week Tour from Albuquerque
 West
      Salt
 Phoenix  Apache                  •  Cruise down Route 66    •   Explore the ancient
 Trail  Globe
                                    in Albuquerque, New   ruins of remote
                                    Mexico’s largest city.   Chaco Canyon,
                                  •   Stroll around the    deep in the desert.
 Biosphere                          historic plaza of Santa   •   Tour the magnificent
 2                                  Fe, admire its adobe   rock-splendor of the
 Saguaro
 National Park                      architecture, and visit    Canyon de Chelly,
 Arizona-Sonora  Tucson             its stunning museums.  in the heart of the
 Desert Museum                                      Navajo reservation.
 The Mission Trail                •   Spend a night in tiny
 San Xavier                         Taos, home to a thriving   •   Admire the impregnable
 del Bac                            arts colony, and visit   mesa-top fortress of
        Tombstone
 Tubac                              Taos Pueblo.    Acoma Pueblo.
 Nogales
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