July 16-19, 2012  (4 days)
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK
$795

Leave the Havasu heat behind for a few days of delightful cool! We will travel to Merced the first day, overnight, then enter the West gate into Yosemite National Park, one of the most picturesque of all national parks. Once in Yosemite Valley (elevation 4,000) we will take a 2-hour Valley Floor tour on a 60-passenger open vehicle where you will have unobstructed views of the water falls and the glacier-carved granite mountains while a National Park Ranger narrates. Immediately after our tour, our charter bus will take us to the historic Ahwahnee Hotel for lunch in the fabulous dining room with huge granite pillars and sugar pine beams. The Ahwahnee Hotel was built in 1927 and the dining room is its “crown jewel”.  After lunch, there will be time to enjoy the lobby and sitting room of the hotel as well as the outside patios. We’ll leave Yosemite Valley for our lodging just outside the West gate where the balcony of each room is just steps away from the untamed Merced River. The next day we will re-enter Yosemite, visit the Pioneer Historic Center and have lunch in the historic Wawona Hotel (1879) before leaving the park for our last night in Bakersfield. $25 to reserve.

   Included: Transportation, lodging, all admissions, Valley Floor tour, 3 breakfasts, 3 lunches, 3 dinners.

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