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Rail & National Park’s continue to TOP everyone’s travel list as" Yosemite & California Coast by Train' proves.
Happy Holidays features a Private Rail Car, Kings Canyon & Sequoia National Parks just to get things rolling…
Journey along with this Happy Holidays Diary of a spectacular holiday experience…
Your Yosemite & California Coast by Rail experience begins in Los Angeles where your Happy Holidays Concierge Tour Director greats you. The first evening enjoy a Welcome Dinner with your fellow travelers at our Downtown Hotel before turning in for the night.
Following your “plentiful” breakfast which is included every day, it’s time to step back into those “Golden Days” of rail as you arrive Los Angeles’ Union Station to board the California Coast Railcar, a private deluxe dome rail car. You ride in style along the
California Coast and interior farmlands to the Monterey/Carmel area. Your Concierge experience includes lunch, dinner, and cocktails & snacks onboard during this unique and scenic full-day rail experience. As you pull into the Salinas Station this evening, it is a short transfer to your Monterey hotel, home for the next two nights.
Monterey has some special sights, non no more interesting than the Monterey Bay Aquarium, one of the world’s best and home to
35,000 plants & animals representing 623 species of marine life which you will visit. Spend time at the famous 1/3 million gallon tank highlighting California coastal sea life. Later, time to wander shop or dine in Monterey’s historic Cannery Row area. This afternoon you travel along Scenic 17-Mile Drive through Pacific Grove. Much of the drive tightly hugs the Pacific Coast and passes famed Pebble Beach and Lone Cypress Point before a stop to visit the quaint town of Carmel for leisure time to shop & explore the art galleries.
It’s time to move on from Monterey as you travel to historic Old Town Salinas, the childhood home of author John Steinbeck and visit the National Steinbeck Center. Founded in 1977, the center houses the largest collection of Steinbeck archives in the United States. Later journey inland through the fertile San Joaquin Valley. Known as the breadbasket (and fruit) of California, you will enjoy a stop at a Fruit Stand in the fertile Central Valley before climbing the scenic foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains before arriving in famous Coarsegold, nearby Yosemite. Enjoy your time at the Chukchansi Gold Resort & Casino for a 2-night stay. 
Today’s highlights include touring & visiting Yosemite National Park, certainly one of the America’s greatest natural wonders. As you enter the spectacular Yosemite Valley to view the giant iconic formations of El Capitan & Half Dome along with spectacular Yosemite Falls, the highest falls in North America, your appreciation of America’s natural beauty grows ten fold.
That beauty only continues as you travel south along scenic General’s Highway, named in 1875 by conservationist John Muir. To then visit Kings Canyon National Park, a testament to nature’s size, beauty and diversity, with huge mountains, rugged foothills, deep canyons & vast caverns. It only gets better as 
you visit Sequoia National Park to see the world’s largest trees including a sequoia tree which is 275-feet high & 36-feet in diameter.
As you make you way back towards Los Angeles, it is only fitting to stop in Simi Valley to visit the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library & Museum. The state-of-the-art museum takes you from Reagan’s early years to his time spent as a world leader. The library also features the Air Force One used by President Reagan. The day concludes with your arrival to your Downtown LA hotel near the airport for convenient access for your morning flight home. The final evening is celebrated with a group Farewell Dinner at a popular LA restaurant as you never know who you may run into…
Happy Holidays invites you to experience first-hand Private rail travel and Concierge service on our Yosemite & California Coast by Train.
For additional information, contact Graham at Happy Holidays – 1-800-884-2779 or email graham@worldgrouptravel.com.
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