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On the road to California, between urban dreams and natural wonders

2024-03-15T13:36:39.240Z

Highlights: California is a land of contrasts where the American dream takes root between arid deserts and ancient forests. To the north, San Francisco stands like a cultural jewel, with its sloping streets, iconic streetcars, and an open-mindedness that makes it a bastion of innovation and diversity. Further south, Los Angeles is only part of the journey. Between these two metropolises, natural wonders and cities steeped in history await you. California isn't just a destination; it is an invitation to adventure, a call to live intensely.


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California, a land of contrasts where the American dream takes root between arid deserts and ancient forests, offers a range of experiences that defy the imagination.

Imagine a ride on the legendary Route 1, where every turn reveals breathtaking panoramas, from craggy cliffs plunging into the ocean to vineyards undulating in the sun.

To the north, San Francisco stands like a cultural jewel, with its sloping streets, iconic streetcars, and an open-mindedness that makes it a bastion of innovation and diversity.

Further south, Los Angeles, with its glamorous allure and creative energy, is only part of the journey.

Between these two metropolises, natural wonders and cities steeped in history await you, promising endless discoveries.

California isn't just a destination;

it is an invitation to adventure, a call to live intensely.

So, are you ready for the trip of a lifetime?

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San Francisco, a city with rich characters, with diverse and multiple neighborhoods facing the Pacific Ocean.

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Between the Pacific Ocean, the towers of its skyscrapers and the beauty of Victorian houses, San Francisco offers a spectacular landscape, caught in a very dense urban fabric, where visitors will quickly be charmed, and also worn out, by the multitude of hills and slopes to climb, or descend.

Practical, the public transport network allows you to move from one neighborhood to another and become passionate about the multitude of cultures of the Chinese, Latino, Japanese communities... which make up its identity.

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The Bixby Creek Bridge is one of the symbols of this wild coastal area between Carmel and San Luis Obispo aiisha - stock.adobe.com

Often called the Pacific Coast Highway, it is the quintessential California highway winding along the coast for 655 miles.

Muir Woods National Monument, Bixby Creek Bridge, Pfeiffer Beach... Coming from the north, here are five stops for the perfect photo opportunity.

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Two days in Los Angeles, a fantasy city and symbol of the American dream

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 - Route and good addresses, the guide to discovering this sprawling city in southern California.

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Los Angeles cultivates its Hollywood heritage through its museums, theaters, restaurants and hotels.

Cosmopolitan by nature, the City of Angels seduces with its openness to the world and is at the forefront of culinary trends.

As long as you are a good strategist (and avoid endless traffic jams), LA has a crazy charm, proud of its past, anchored in the present and constantly looking towards the future.

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In Los Angeles, a new generation of intimate hotels, discreet addresses with characterful decor, offers an original alternative to the existing luxury hotel groups.

Visit, to the four corners of the City of Angels, these places where you can sleep in complete confidentiality.

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Between cactus desert and sunlight, the all-Hollywood vacation spot has kept its charm intact.

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With its azure blue skies, year-round sunshine and rows of palm trees lining its straight avenues, Palm Springs has attracted travelers for more than a century.

From the 1940s, Hollywood stars came to hide their secret passions there, and organized memorable parties around the swimming pools of their modernist houses.

The epicenter of this architectural trend, the city has retained its retro chic charm thanks to these buildings which have become iconic.

It has even become a veritable open-air museum of “Desert Modernism” style, celebrated twice a year during

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(in February and October).

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Discovery of the Western Lands

Discovery of the Western Lands Luciano Mortula-LGM - stock.adob

From Los Angeles to San Francisco via Las Vegas and the most beautiful national parks in the United States, MARCO VASCO invites you to explore the wide open spaces of the American West on a road trip in complete freedom, from €1,790 .

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