Go West Tours

10 USA impenetrable shadow. The Colorado River flows over a mile below the canyon rim. Lunch on your own. In the afternoon, we will enter the town of Page, in the Lake Powell Region. Visit the mighty Glen Canyon Dam , the second highest concrete- arch dam in America. From here you’ll enjoy views of stunning Lake Powel l, where crystal blue water laps against towering red-rock canyon walls. Western dinner at Ken's OldWest (half board) and overnight in Page . Day 6: Page - Monument Valley - Moab (443 km/277 miles - 5h) - Leave for Monument Valley , where you will find yourself surrounded by dark red hills. Visit of this imposing area where numerous westerns have been filmed. This 25 mile-long and 16-mile wide desert plain overflows with gigantic sandstone monolithic structures rising high above the valley. Lunch on your own. Optional: Jeep tour with Navajo Indians including Navajo specialties lunch. Afternoon stop at Dead Horse Point, a promontory dominating the Colorado River that can be reached by a trail. The view of Canyonlands and the Colorado is spectacular. Dinner (half board) and overnight in Moab . Day 7: Moab - Arches - Salt Lake City (455 km/284 miles - 4h55) - Morning visit of Arches National Park in the state of Utah, with its arid and austere landscape, where you can find over 2,000 natural arches of various shapes and sizes resulting from the erosion of red and gold sandstone. Lunch on your own. Afternoon drive to Salt Lake City . The scenery is beautiful, in particular throughout the Fishlake National Forest. Dinner (half board) and overnight in Salt Lake City. Day 8: Salt Lake City - Jackson (450 km/281 miles - 4h35) - Sightseeing tour of the Mormon capital. Visit Temple Square where you can appreciate the Mormon temple from the outside. Stop near the State Capitol , a Corinthian-style building and seat of the state of Utah’s federated government. Leave to the north. Lunch on your own. Arrival and western dinner Bar J Chuckwagon (half board) in Jackson , a typical Far West city with wood houses and cowboy bars. Day 9 : Jackson - Grand Teton - West Yellowstone (260 km/163 miles - 4h) - Leave for Grand Teton National Park in northwestern Wyoming. Stop at Jenny Lake and the Chapel of the Transfiguration in the historic district. Enjoy a superb view of the Teton Range rising abruptly to tower 7,000 ft above the valley floor and frame a majestic landscape of lakes, glaciers and extensive forests. Lunch on your own. In the afternoon, visit Yellowstone National Park . This park will appeal to lovers of wildlife like grizzly bears, buffalo, deer, elk and longhorn sheep. Dinner (half board) and night in Yellowstone. Day 10: Yellowstone - Day in Yellowstone National Park - used in the past by many groups of Native Americans. You will delight in the splendid waterfalls in the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone . On your tour through the park, you may see the eruption of Old Faithful, the best known of the park’s 300 geysers, along with other geological marvels like Mammoth Hot Springs and Turquoise Pool . Lunch on your own in the park. Continue to Cody , where colorful Buffalo Bill once lived. Dinner (half board) and overnight in West Yellowstone . Day 11 : Jackson - Craters of the Moon - Twin Falls (495 km/309 miles - 5h45) Morning drive West to the state of Idaho. Make a stop at Idaho Falls for lunch on your own. Afternoon visit of Craters of the Moon , a vast ocean of lava flows with scattered islands of cinder cones and sagebrush, one of the best-preserved flood basalt areas in the continental United States. The Monument and Preserve encompass three major lava fields, all lying along the Great Rift of Idaho, with some of the best examples of open rift cracks in the world, including the deepest known on Earth at 240 m. Make a stop at the Malad River Canyon . You will get a great view of the gorge from the slender-but-sturdy bridge that arcs across the