Check in to the beautiful Marriott Pyramid hotel in Albuquerque (pool, hot tub, fitness center, sauna, game room) where the fun doesn’t stop!
Day 2, 2007 (Sunday)
- Hot, delicious, all you can eat, full breakfast buffet at hotel!
- Experience Bandelier National Monument as you hike through Indian ruins in mystical Frijoles canyon. Climb into ancient cliff dwellings and 140’ up the canyon wall to the Ceremonial Cave; see Indian petroglyphs, pictographs and the Bat Cave.
- Box lunch at scenic Bandelier. We eat by Frijoles creek under the shady cottonwoods.
- Hold on tight for whitewater rafting on the “Racecourse” section of the Rio Grande River! Conditions permitting, scouts will raft in one and two-man rubber “fun yaks.”
- A visit to historic and unique Santa Fe Plaza, the second oldest city in America.
- Dinner in Santa Fe --all you can eat American buffet!
- Return to hotel in Albuquerque.
- Spend the evening pool side or in the game room or play board games, ping pong or volleyball with your crew members and other Scouts from all over the country.
Day 3, 2007 (Monday)
- Hot, delicious, all you can eat, full breakfast buffet at hotel!
- Visit to Acoma Pueblo, the oldest continuously inhabited community in North America. This 1,200 year old Indian Village, perched on a mesa 400 feet off the canyon floor, is filled with legends of battles won and lost, great stories, interesting artifacts and magnificent views.
- Visit El Malpais or “The Badlands”. Hike through a lava field, see ”La Ventana” natural arch towering several hundred feet above the canyon floor, climb down into and through a lava tube and possibly do some caving.
- Lunch
- Visit to El Morrow or “Inscription Rock”. This was the conquistador’s newspaper in the 1500’s. Literally thousands of inscriptions are etched into this 400 foot tall, 30 acre sandstone rock beginning in 1510 through the late 1800’s. We will hike to the top of El Morrow and visit the ruins of a 1,400 year old Indian village. Hotel in Chinle, Arizona. Get ready for Canyon de Chelly!
Day 4, 2007 (Tuesday)
- Breakfast at hotel.
- Visit to Canyon de Chelly on the Navajo Indian reservation, another one of nature’s beautiful wonders. Filled with magnificent rock formations and Indian ruins, this area is considered sacred ground to the Navajo Indians.
- Your group will tour the Canyon either via horse back or in six wheel drive all terrain vehicles with Native American guides. We will see numerous ruins, wall paintings, beautiful landscapes and Spider Rock, a spectacular 800 foot pillar of sandstone.
- Lunch and then depart for Flagstaff, Arizona.
- Visit the Meteor Crater. 50,000 years ago, an asteroid 150 feet across and weighing several hundred thousand tons slammed into Earth, creating a crater 4,000 feet across and 700 feet deep. You will never forget this!
- Visit the Petrified Forest and the Painted Desert. A forest of trees that turned to stone? A desert that looks like a multi colored layer cake? This is another one of those “you have to see it to believe it” places.
- Dinner and Hotel in Flagstaff, Arizona. Get ready for the Grand Canyon!
Day 5, 2007 (Wednesday)
- Breakfast at hotel.
- Depart for the Grand Canyon!
- We will visit Grand Canyon City on the South Rim and view one of the best IMAX films ever produced, which chronicles the discovery of the canyon.
- Partial hike down the Canyon wall. We can’t make it to the bottom and back in one day, but we will get a good feel for one of nature’s true wonders.
- Lunch.
- Return to hotel in Flagstaff.
- Dinner.
- Night visit to the Lowell Observatory. Our private tour will include a viewing through the 24 inch Clark Telescope and a tour through the Dome.
Day 6, 2007 (Thursday)
- Breakfast at hotel.
- Depart for Las Vegas, Nevada!
- Lunch
- Experience one of the seven wonders of the modern world, Hoover Dam. Your group will take the “Discovery Tour” of the dam which includes an elevator ride 500 feet down to the river, a walk into the wall of Black Canyon and through the 250-foot long tunnel drilled out of rock to view the 650-foot long Nevada wing of the power plant and its eight huge generators (Hoover Dam tour depends on completion of the new bridge over the river).
- A night in Las Vegas! We will stay at a hotel on or nearby the famous Las Vegas Strip.
- No gambling or night club shows for the boys and girls in green and gray, but simply a walk down the strip is incredibly entertaining and memorable. Our visit will include either a video arcade or a roller coaster ride.
