CALIFORNIAN TREASURES Pacific Coast Highway
California State Route 1, also known as the Pacific Coast Highway, is one of the world’s most scenic drives... exhilarating and dramatic, with picture-postcard ocean and coastal vistas that are astonishing. Literally every twist of the road brings a new panoramic view – such as the jagged cliffs that plunge to the sea along the coastline known as Big Sur...
Hearst Castle
Get a taste of California’s famed grapes when you make a visit to Central California wine country
The newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst may have devoted his life to publishing facts, but his San Simeon home was a fantastical paradise. It took the celebrated San Francisco architect Julia Morgan 28 years to complete his grand hilltop castle with 165 rooms and 127 acres of gardens, terraces, and pools – all built to house his legendary art collection.
Yosemite National Park
Few people but the Ahwahneechee had ever seen Yosemite Valley before the 1850s, when Gold Rush explorers and prospectors began to bring back reports of a “new” wilderness of peerless beauty with waterfalls, lakes, meadows, magnificent trees, and sculpted granite cliffs soaring like a Gothic cathedral.
7. BIG DREAMS: HEARST CASTLE & BIG SUR Morning begins with a guided walking tour at Hearst Castle, a national and California Historical Landmark in San Simeon. This elaborate estate, created for newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, recalls an era of opulent entertaining – and the fictional paradise of Xanadu, featured in Orson Welles’ film Citizen Kane. Afterward, it’s nature’s opulence that will impress you as you ride along the dramatic Big Sur Coast. Alight in the coastal city of Monterey, where you’ll dine at leisure at your hotel on pristine Monterey Bay. Meals BLD
8. MONTEREY AND CARMEL BY THE SEA Today’s journey through the lush and lovely Monterey Peninsula shows you the beauty of Pacific Grove and the celebrated 17-Mile Drive, which hugs the coastline and is dotted with mansions and golf courses. You’ll also visit the famed Lodge at Pebble Beach. And then it’s on to Carmel by the Sea, which has been dubbed one of the “most romantic cities of the world” by Travel + Leisure magazine. Enjoy free time to explore Carmel’s galleries and cafés before you head off to visit the Monterey Bay Aquarium. The award-winning exhibits at the aquarium will have you oohing and aahing over the unexpected delights of marine life, from cuttlefish to whales and other ocean critters. Meals B
9. CENTRAL VALLEY FARMS, WINE, AND GOLD Travel through the farms, orchards and vineyards of California’s Central Valley and on to Victorian-era Gold Country. In 1848, news of this precious metal spread like wildfire, leading to explosive population growth. At the
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