Find yourself someplace new!
• Immerse in a geological wonderland during three nights in Yellowstone National Park
• Zoom-in on the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone during a hike along the canyon rim
• Picnic, al fresco, before exploring Norris Geyser Basin
• Learn about the grizzlies and wolves of Yellowstone with an expert naturalist guide
• Get an insider’s perspective in the national parks • Bike ride in the Tetons, a natural high • Float down the Snake River along nature’s highway • Explore Yellowstone aboard historic yellow Jammers • Airport transfers upon arrival and departure as noted
Go where the buffalo roam as you get an insider’s perspective of two of the most magnificent national parks in the American West
• 17 meals (7 breakfasts, 4 lunches, 6 dinners); service charges, gratuities to local guides, admission fees, taxes and porterage
1. ARRIVE JACKSON, WYOMING Tour begins: 10:30 AM at Spring Creek Ranch. Our welcome representative will be waiting to meet you at Jackson Hole Airport for an included transfer to Spring Creek Ranch, starting point for your American safari. A change of view and a change of clothes (hiking gear is de rigueur out here) readies you for zoomed-in outdoor adventures inside America’s first national park. Wild and wonderful, Yellowstone is all about nature at her most passionate. She smolders with hot springs, steaming geysers, fumaroles and gurgling mud pots. She’s dressed in snow-tipped mountains, lodgepole forests, trout spawning streams, rushing waterfalls, green rivers, yawning canyons and rocks exquisitely sculpted with an imaginative hand. She challenges with trails – some 1,000 miles of them – and thrills with animals, like bison, bears and wolves. Take in the raw beauty of the park on a drive from Jackson, Wyoming to Yellowstone for a guided hike – and a naturally inspiring three-night stay – in the heart of a thermal wonderland. Your wilderness lodge hosts a welcome dinner tonight with a feast of scenery and hospitality. Meals LD
2. YELLOWSTONE’S GRAND CANYON The break of day in Yellowstone is eye-opening, especially on an early two-mile morning hike around the Lower Geyser Basin, one of the park’s top-three places for the most concentration of geysers. Breakfast waits back at the lodge, before we head outside again aboard yellow Jammers to see scenery that surprises with dramatic intensity. Lesser known than its world-famous rival of a similar name, the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone is one for the record books – and photo album! No wonder many travelers, except the Culturious, view it from a look-out called Inspiration Point. So much
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of experiencing Yellowstone requires up-close and personal contact with the wild world and today’s hike along the canyon rim does just that. Hear the thunder of its two massive waterfalls as you thread your way past the steep, jagged walls of pink, yellow and orange that cradle the river below. Picnic, al fresco, and forge on during a hike in Norris Geyser Basin. The hottest ground in the park, it is home to noisy geysers like Steamboat, Little Whirligig and Minute that erupt virtually non-stop, every minute! Dine tonight near one of the most famous hot-heads of them all – and one-time laundromat – Old Faithful. Meals BLD
Hike along wilderness trails that naturally inspire the Culturious in Grand Teton National Park
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