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Read the United States on a self-driving tour of American culture

Read the United States on a self-driving tour of American culture

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There's no better way to get to know the vast, vibrant America than to drive. Fasten your seatbelt, fill up the fuel tank, and embark on our privately designed 7 self-driving routes full of humanistic colors, taking you to experience the condensed history and culture of the United States on the road.

Washington, DC- Philadelphia – New York – Boston 10 days is about 700 km

The self-driving route of the East Coast of the United States, with better road conditions, is very suitable for self-driving passengers who travel to the Eastern United States for the first time. Along the way, you can experience the condensed history and culture of the United States: go deep into Washington to feel the political atmosphere, listen to the bells of independence in Philadelphia, where the country is independent; set aside enough time to feel the specimen city of the United States, New York; and re-walk the American freedom road in Boston.

Washington Core: As the capital of the United States, Washington has many dazzling attractions, such as the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument, the White House, Capitol Hill, and so on. After the Smithsonian Institution Museum, which combines galleries, zoos and museums, closes, you can also enjoy a good meal.

Philadelphia: This historic city was the birthplace of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, and the iconic Independence Palace still sits on the back of a 100-dollar bill.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a self-contained cultural city-state with a collection of more than 2 million objects, making it One of New York's most popular attractions.

Boston University: Boston is one of the oldest cities in the United States and one of the youngest. A large number of universities bring a youthful vibrancy and a strong sense of art and entertainment to the capital city. Don't miss the peaceful campuses of Harvard and MIT.

Read the United States on a self-driving tour of American culture

San Diego – Los Angeles – California Route 1 – San Francisco – Pana Valley 10 days is about 1,000 km

Depart from sunny San Diego and experience the multicultural and Hollywood-style nightlife of Los Angeles. Take the stunning California Route 1 to San Francisco, where you're on California's Route 1, and the nearby Pana Valley is perfect for a get a drink.

San Diego: A small American town of mixed Spanish and Mexican origins, vibrant and laid-back.

Hollywood: Depart for the Hollywood Walk of Fame to begin your star hunt.

Getty Art Center: In the getty art center, which is not well known in China, the Getty Art Center worships Van Gogh's famous work "Iris", which is common in primary school textbooks.

Pana Valley: The Pana Valley is home to many wineries and represents the highest standard of wine in the New World.

Read the United States on a self-driving tour of American culture

Phoenix - Grand Canyon National Park - Antelope Canyon - Memorial Valley - Canyonlands National Park - Arches National Park 10 days about 1000 km

Classic scenes from the American Hollywood Western blockbuster constantly skim past the car windows, and the red-and-yellow land and mountain rocks once ran rugged cowboys or extravagant Indian warriors. This is the American West of your dreams.

Phoenix: Home to the desert's resident cacti, the Desert Botanical Gardens collect cacti and drought-tolerant plants from around the world.

Memorial Valley: Located within the Navajo Indian Reservation, several classic red mountains stand in the wilderness, and the landscape resembles Mars. This is where Forrest Gump stopped running in the movie "Forrest Gump" and the filming location at the end of the movie "The Wind Whisperer".

Wupaki National Scenic Area: There are several remains of Indian houses and palaces, dating back about 1,500 years.

Read the United States on a self-driving tour of American culture

San Francisco-Santa Cruz-Monterrey-Santa Barbara-Dana Point 8 days is about 3813 km

The highway connects the two most important cities on the West Coast, Los Angeles and San Francisco, with a series of important beaches, state parks, and national coastlines, making the road more scenic than urban culture.

Malibu Beach: There is a beach dedicated to the Portuguese explorer Cabrio, and there are not many reefs in California Beach, but there are large reef areas here.

Walrus Bay: The walruses here are lying on the beach basking in the sun, and the landscape is very interesting.

Big Sur: The essence of Highway One is in the Big Sur generation, where the view is wide, the highway is at a high level, but there are not many parking locations, be sure to park according to the requirements. Big Sur overnight can see night views of the highway and spectacular sunsets over the Pacific Ocean. The bixby bridge spans between two mountains.

Monterey: The 17 miles around Monterrey is a famous landscape area, famous for its lonely trees and promenades, which often fog at dusk.

Read the United States on a self-driving tour of American culture

Los Angeles - Death Valley National Park - Las Vegas - Valley of Fire - Bryce Valley National Park 14 days about 1000 km

A self-driving line with a strange style of painting, on the one hand is a flashy city with red wine and green lights, and on the other hand, it is a desolate and cold natural wonder. Artificial flowers bloom in the desert, like a realistic version of the Three-Body Civilization.

Death Valley National Park: Singing sand dunes, palm-lined oases and endemic wildlife stage spectacular nature shows.

Las Vegas: The only place in the world to see hieroglyphs, the Eiffel Tower, and the Venetian waterways in a matter of hours.

Read the United States on a self-driving tour of American culture

The small town of Pagayzi - Bryce Canyon National Park - Dome Reef National Park 4 days is about 220 km

Not only does Route 12 boast magnificent red rock canyons and geological wonders that were formed hundreds of millions of years ago, but there are also nine unique historic American towns on the road.

Town of Escalante: A unique Mormon family farm was built in 1876.

Henryville Town: In the 1870s the developers of the West settled here, built the earliest schools, and still serve as a civic center and parliament hall, and many of the townspeople are still farmers today.

Town of Bod: In 1894, the town of Boder, the last front line in Utah, was held at its highest elevation, isolated from the edge of a volcano, and until 1935, letters were delivered by horse-drawn carriage.

Read the United States on a self-driving tour of American culture

Carson City - South Lake Tahoe - Mammoth Lake - Sisperia 5 days about 700 km

The Western Highway, which stretched tenaciously in the wilderness on the east side of the Sierra Nevada in 1926, exudes the same western wilderness smell as Route 66, and the exposed scenery of the Sierra Nevada outside the window is like being on an alien planet.

Edward Military Base: It's also home to nasa, with regular air force shows.

June Lake: The June Lake Ring Road, known as Little Switzerland, is a famous leaf viewing area in autumn, of which June Lake is the most beautiful place.

Lake Mona: The salt column in the lake is the highlight, and it is also the eastern gate of Yosemite National Park.

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Read the United States on a self-driving tour of American culture
Read the United States on a self-driving tour of American culture