Chosen from the best available, hotels and services may not be comparable with accommodations in more populated areas. Board your private, air-conditioned motorcoach to sightsee Phoenix and Scottsdale, including the Heard Museum, the nation's leading museum of Native American art and culture. This morning's excursion takes you by the sacred Superstition Mountain, worshiped as the Thunder God by the Apache. Superstition Mountain is the supposed location of the legendary Lost Dutchman Mine. See spectacular Salt River Canyon.
Lunch is in Show Low.
This afternoon, visit Petrified Forest National Park, strewn with trees which were fossilized, when wood cells were replaced over the centuries with mineral deposits. Visit the Rainbow Forest Museum to see fossil exhibits of rocks and dinosaurs. Drive to the colorful Painted Desert. Spend the night in Holbrook, the only place in the U.S. that still runs mail by horse. BLD Drive north into the Navajo Indian Reservation.