Grand+Canyon travel tips and stories. Vacations ideas, cruises spa and resorts

Nestled in the dramatic Sonoran Desert, The Phoenician is a magnificent luxury resort found in the Valley of the Sun in Scottsdale, Arizona. Located on 250 breathtaking acres, The Phoenician is a desert oasis that will captivate your spirit of romance and adventure. Featuring a 27-hole USGA Championship facility that combines three nine-hole golf courses with unique landscapes including Canyon, Desert and Oasis, The Phoenician golf resort is one of the finest golf courses in the state. Playing at these golf courses will be an experience you won’t soon forget.

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Set in the heart of the American southwest in the Sonoran Desert on 450 glorious acres the Fairmont Scottsdale is the ultimate desert oasis. Newly redesigned gem blends alluring Spanish-style architecture with a modern, contemporary edge.  Actually, this is the grandest of Scottsdale resorts. The grounds, a mystical landscape of lagoons, fountains, fire pits, colorful desert plants, and expansive green spaces, offer lush contrast to the desert surroundings. If you choose to celebrate Passover in Arizona, this 5-star resort is the perfect choice.

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Opened in 2006, Kanyon is a multi-purpose complex located in Istanbul, Turkey. Located at Levent financial district, it is one of the most unique shopping complexes in the world. The shape of the building is modeled to look like a canyon. This build has some award about architectural as Cityscape Architectural Review Award in the “Commercial Built” category.

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Luxury, extreme and adventurer spirit calls in Jackson Hole Mountain Resort in the heart of the Tetons. Jackson Hole is a uniquely beautiful, special place unlike any ski destination in the world. However travelling to Jackson Hole during the winter has never been easier. But once you arrived there, things get much easier. Jackson Hole is a flat valley surrounded by mountains.  No mountain passes or canyons to negotiate, no city or highway traffic to stress you out.The airport is located in Grand Teton National Park, so fight  for a window seat on your flight into Jackson.  It’s a view you’ll never forget.

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Often called “Red Rock Country” Sedona is a four seasons playground for everyone – whether you’re into history and archaeology; arts and culture; shopping; outdoor sports; or the spiritual and metaphysical, imagine doing all this in a backdrop of some of the most spectacular scenery in the world.

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Amangiri Resort opened its doors in October 2009 and sitted on a 243-hectare (600-acre) expanse of wilderness in Canyon Point, Southern Utah, close to the border with Arizona. The resort is tucked into a protected valley with sweeping views over colourful, stratified rock towards the Grand Staircase – Escalante National Monument. When visitors arrived via a winding road that descends into the valley and leads to the central Pavilion, they will spot the main swimming pool, the Pavilion embraces a dramatic stone escarpment.

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Lake Powell is an artificial pond, created in 1960s toward the controversial scheme to dam the Colorado River to fill the Grand Canyon with water. Today few could deny that this unnatural landscape is a breathtaking sight. Crystal-clear turquoise waters reflect the towering rich-red canyon walls that go up from the water, scatter among wondrous arches, magnificent spires, sandstone butters, as well as countless inlets and sandy beaches. Photo by: Wolfgang Staudt

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Green canyons, red cliffs, blue skies: Zion’s colors can stop in your tracks. Water enables greens rare amidst otherwise desert landscape. Visible or not, water forcefully shapes these stalwart walls. Trickling falls summon emerald growth in nooks and crannies. Sculpted evidence testifies to the carving of red slot canyons. Winter’s icy-blue snow-melt feeds anew the rushing, scouring river torrents of spring.  Almost 12,000 years ago Zion’s first peoples, who are now almost invisible, tracked mammoths, giant sloth, and camel across southern Utah. Due the climate change and overhunting these animals died out about 8,000 years ago. In 1860s, just after settlement by Mormon pioneers, John Wesley Powell visited Zion of the first scientific exploration of southern Utah.

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Colca Canyon is located in the Andes Mountain, in southern Peru. The Canyon has a depth of 3,400 m and is the second deepest canyon in the world. It is more than twice as deep as the Grand Canyon in the USA, though the walls aren’t as sheer.

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Olympic National Park on Washington’s Pacific Coast offers 16 campgrounds!

Due to the bad economy in the recent years, there is a sudden interest in the great outdoor vacations. People who are worried about finances instead of staying at a fancy resort or a trip overseas, they prefer sojourning in the woods. As well as gas prices which are significantly lower than last summer’s may also be affecting decisions to hit the road.

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