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• Sun - Sat 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM
• (0.16 km) Grand Canyon Inn
• (0.31 km) Raptor Ranch RV Park & Campground
• (1.15 km) Clear Sky Resorts - Grand Canyon, AZ- Unique Sky Domes
• (1.62 km) Under Canvas Grand Canyon
• (0.60 km) The Dumplin Patch Bed and Breakfast

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• Sun - Sat 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM
• (0.16 km) Grand Canyon Inn
• (0.31 km) Raptor Ranch RV Park & Campground
• (1.15 km) Clear Sky Resorts - Grand Canyon, AZ- Unique Sky Domes
• (1.62 km) Under Canvas Grand Canyon
• (0.60 km) The Dumplin Patch Bed and Breakfast

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• Sun - Sat 07:00 - 08:30
• (0.10 mi) Grand Canyon Inn
• (0.19 mi) Raptor Ranch RV Park & Campground
• (0.72 mi) Clear Sky Resorts - Grand Canyon, AZ- Unique Sky Domes
• (1.01 mi) Under Canvas Grand Canyon
• (0.38 mi) The Dumplin Patch Bed and Breakfast

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A good stop for whatever before heading out for grander places (aka The Grand Canyon). Easy to spend lots here; there's lots to spend on. Not only gas but good snacks and decent trinkets, too. Not... Read more

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09/26/2023 This was a good stop since there is a gift travel shop to look through and restrooms. Get out and stretch your legs and take a look at the classic cars around the corner of the... Read more

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Made a quick pit stop as we traveled to Sedona. This is a one stop shop! They have everything you can think of. A ton of gifts, souvenirs, clothing, jewelry and accessories. I had to refrain... Read more

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We passed by this place after our trip to the Grand Canyon. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to take a good photo of this establishment because we were already in a hurry. Anyway, this is a big store with a lot of good selection/merchandise. So many silver jewelry with semi-precious stones, postcards, magnets, t-shirts, etc. A lot of snacks & drinks as well. There was only one cashier when we were here. He was fast & efficient. I can say that it's a good place to stop over before heading back to the city.

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• Sun - Sat 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM
• (0.16 km) Grand Canyon Inn
• (0.31 km) Raptor Ranch RV Park & Campground
• (1.15 km) Clear Sky Resorts - Grand Canyon, AZ- Unique Sky Domes
• (1.62 km) Under Canvas Grand Canyon
• (0.60 km) The Dumplin Patch Bed and Breakfast

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• Capturing the Kremlin and central Moscow: the higher, the better

Of course, pictures of the Kremlin shot from the Red Square are no doubt iconic and must-have, but they are taken by thousands of tourists every day and can hardly make a wow-effect on your friends on Instagram and other social networks.

Another problem with shooting from Red Square is that the photos do not fully represent the scale of the medieval fortress of Kremlin. So, you need to make some steps further and higher to catch the right shot. You’ll be surprised by the fact that the panoramic views of the Kremlin are pretty easy to get. We have four hints for you: Zaryadie, Ritz Carlton, Patriarch bridge, and Radisson riverboat.

If you want to not only make beautiful photos but also to learn something interesting about the history of Russia, we recommend an individual tour of the Kremlin. You can order it online here .

First, go to Zaryadye, which is located right next to the Red Square, behind the St Basil’s Cathedral, on the closest Moscow river bank. The most impressive views over the Kremlin are unfolded from the so-called Flying bridge of Zaryadye and Glass Dome building in the back part of the park.

Zaryadye is the new place of attraction in Moscow. It’s a landscape park, opened in September 2017 by the Moscow government on the hill where the giant soviet hotel ‘Rossiya’ located before its demolition in the early 2000-s. As a bonus, you’ll get an incredible view over one of Stalin’s skyscrapers, located on the opposite bank of Moscow river — the so-called Vysotka at Kotelnicheskaya, used as a residence of many Russian famous people and officials.

• The roof of the Ritz Carlton Hotel

This option is ok only in case if you’re ready to pay the average bar bill of over 2500 rubles (about $40). Visit the O2 Lounge Bar on the roof of the Ritz Carlton Hotel, where all the global celebrities take their Moscow pictures, from Angelina Jolie to Robert Downey Jr.

But such photo investments seem to pay off immediately. The deck of the bar makes an excellent panorama point for the Kremlin walls and towers, the Historical Museum, the Great Kremlin Palace, and the Kremlin cathedrals. All these landmarks are not too far away, which makes them perfectly recognizable, even in the background.

• The Radisson riverboat

This hint will be useful in case you’re traveling to Moscow in the cold season. River transportation in Moscow doesn't stop in winter. Many enclosed and heated tourist yachts with panoramic windows and ice-breaking equipment can be found in the Moscow River. For instance, one of the most recognizable is the flotilla Radisson.

Their route goes past all the main sights of pre-revolutionary and Soviet Moscow – from Stalin's skyscrapers (Ukraina hotel and Vysotka at Kotelnicheskaya) to the Kremlin and the Novodevichy Convent. It is possible to go out to the open deck and take photos of you and your family or friends against a backdrop of the city’s lights and their reflection in the river. The cruise lasts 2.5 hours. You can book a tour with a car roundtrip transfer from your hotel to the pier and back: book online here

• Patriarch bridge

The bridge is located further from the Kremlin, than Zaryadye or Ritz Carlton, so the Kremlin walls on your photos will look smaller. The brighter side of walking through the bridge is that you can do more fabulous pics of the Moscow river and city center landscapes. The Moscow river and the pretty recognizable giant statue of Peter the Great are ideally viewed from the bridge. Be prepared that it’s a famous and popular pedestrian area for tourists all over the world so the bridge may be crowded.

Also, the bridge is a part of a long promenade which leads from the Christ the Saviour Cathedral through the Balchug island to the opposite bank of the Moscow River, where another pedestrian area — Museon embankment — is ready to joy you with its cafes, cozy lawns and impressive views over the river flow, ducks and boats.

• Moscow City

The best spot to shoot the famous Moscow business downtown is located on the Taras Shevchenko embankment. To get there you need to come to the metro stations Vystavochnaya or Delovoi Tsentr, then go to the Bagration bridge (use the metro navigation, the path is tricky), cross the bridge — and voilà! You’ve reached the best spot for shooting, posing, sending selfies, and Instagramming.

• Ponds and orangeries

There are two ponds in Moscow, that deserve your attention in summer: the Chistye ponds (actually there is only one pond, but it’s worth it) and the pond in Gorky Park, which is full of small boats and catamarans. Both lakes are lost between the green alleys and are drowning in all the shades of green. Those are the perfect spots to catch the moment of peace amid the madness of big city life.

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Travel by train from St. Petersburg to Moscow, climb Mount Elbrus by funicular and get stuck in traffic near Moscow City. All in one day. In the Moscow diorama museum ‘Tsar-Maket’ ('Tsar-layout') you can see Russia on a 1:87 scale model and meet its tiny inhabitants.

Travel Russia by a mini-train

The first city where your acquaintance with Russia begins is Pskov with its ancient kremlin and giant train station. Just like on a real railway, apart from trains, there’s a locomotive repair depot, as well as several tracks with railroad switches and even people who’ve boarded the wrong trains!

In general, trains and roads are the main theme of the layout. Its creators came up with dozens of different routes between settlements and, just like in real life, dispatchers follow them and promptly conduct repairs.

Next stop is St. Petersburg. With its Palace Bridge that is drawn twice a day. With St. Isaac’s Cathedral, shipyards, a wedding on the embankment during a white night, a tourist bus that takes people along famous avenues. And a bit of irony about the climatic features of the city – it rains the whole “night” (or, as the locals say, it has rained in St. Petersburg since the day of its founding in 1703).

Moscow, meanwhile, meets you with giant and very realistic traffic near the skyscrapers of Moscow City. Unlike cars in other regions, Moscow ones are not moving, they just shine their headlights sadly and honk their horns. But there’s a bonus for “pedestrians” – down the road from the traffic a chocolate factory is in operation, which can be run with a push of a single button to get a real chocolate bar from its window.

In the middle of Moscow, not far from the Kremlin, of course, an archaeological excavation is underway. “Underground” you can see the Novoslobodskaya metro station and its astonishing mosaics ( we talked about them here ). Just like in the big format, trains arrive at the station every two minutes.

From Moscow, we travel to the south of the country and find ourselves in Rostov-on-Don. What is Rostov without soccer? Every 11 minutes, “evening” comes and a giant stadium hosts a soccer match with fans gathering round to cheer for their favorite team.

We move on to the main sea and mountain resorts of Russia. The highest point – of course, on Mount Elbrus, towards which travelers with backpacks strive.

In the underground part of the mountain, of course, speleologists discover fantastic creatures.

To reach Volga Region, we go through the countryside with cozy wooden cabins, animal farms and small vintage stores.

There’s even “burned down” and “abandoned” buildings.

Kaliningrad Region is located, obviously, aside from the main part of the diorama. You’ll immediately recognize its cathedral in the middle of the city and the tourist Fishing Village.

The Tsar- Maket ’s “Easter eggs”

The ‘Tsar-Maket’ opened only in 2021, but 30 people have been working on it for five years and it is still a work in progress. They constantly add details, attractions and, of course, new narratives and new human models. As of today, the country is “populated” by about 100,000 tiny people. But not just people. If you take a good look, you’ll see very strange characters.

At a rock-music festival, ninja turtles are ordering pizza; in Moscow, Kazimir Malevich paints from nature his abstract ‘Sportsmen’ on a roof.

In a sleeping area of Moscow, you can see a replica of the famous photo ‘Lunch atop a Skyscraper’.

In St. Petersburg, the four musicians from The Beatles cross a road in a familiar style.

As the designers told us, they don’t know how many “Easter eggs” their colleagues hid in the diorama. For now, they have counted more than 30, but these ideas come to them spontaneously.

This is mini electric bus from mini Moscow.

Right now, the designers are working on the continuation of the diorama in Siberia. The territory is vast, but they promise to finish it within a year. We’ll share a secret with you: we got a sneak peek at Lake Baikal and it was very impressive!

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Blinken Adds Israel Stop to Latest Mideast Tour as Tensions Rise Over Gaza War

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Israel this week as part of his sixth urgent mission to the Middle East since Israel's war with Hamas began in October

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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, March 20, 2024. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool Photo via AP)

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Israel this week as part of his sixth urgent mission to the Middle East since the Israelis' war with Hamas began in October, as relations between the two countries have soured dramatically in recent weeks.

The visit comes amid a flurry of calls, planned trips by U.S. and Israeli officials and public airings of severe disagreements over the state of the conflict — notably Israeli plans to mount a major military operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah and what will happen to Gaza after the war ends.

The State Department said the Israel stop would cap Blinken’s latest Mideast tour that started in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday and will continue in Egypt on Thursday. The top U.S. diplomat will be in Tel Aviv on Friday after talks with Arab leaders and foreign ministers in Jeddah and Cairo focused on the war in Gaza.

“In Israel, Secretary Blinken will discuss with the leadership of the government of Israel the ongoing negotiations to secure the release of all hostages,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said. “He will discuss the need to ensure the defeat of Hamas, including in Rafah, in a way that protects the civilian population, does not hinder the delivery of humanitarian assistance, and advances Israel’s overall security.”

Tensions between the U.S. and Israel over the prosecution of the Gaza war have been mounting for months over rising civilian casualties. And they have intensified as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly said he will ignore President Joe Biden's warnings not to start a large-scale ground operation in Rafah without credible plans to protect innocent Palestinians who have sought refuge there.

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Biden, facing a tough re-election campaign ahead of November's presidential election, is under growing domestic pressure to rein in Israel's military response to the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks in Israel. Opposition to the war in the United States, Arab nations and much of the rest of the world has shaped the evolution of Blinken's frequent trips to the region since October.

His first two visits were largely focused on re-affirming U.S. support for Israel in the immediate aftermath of the Hamas attacks, but as civilian Palestinian casualties began to multiply and humanitarian conditions in Gaza deteriorated, his emphasis shifted to boosting humanitarian assistance and protecting innocents.

Since late last year, Blinken has also used his visits to stress the importance of Arab support for “day after” plans for Gaza and trying to coax Israeli leaders into accepting a status for the Palestinians that could help ensure Israel's long-term security.

As that shift has taken place, though, the situation in Gaza has gotten worse and relations between the U.S. and Israel have nosedived. Public disagreements between Biden and Netanyahu have become more frequent and more intense.

In a phone call with Biden on Monday, their first in more than a month, Netanyahu agreed to send a high-level delegation to Washington to discuss plans for the proposed Rafah operation, and the Pentagon said Tuesday that Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant would visit the U.S. capital next week.

In his talks in Jeddah, Cairo and Tel Aviv, Blinken is expected to focus on attempts to negotiate a cease-fire and hostage release deal, increase humanitarian aid deliveries to Gaza by land, air and sea and plan for the territory's post-conflict future.

In the Red Sea city of Jeddah, Blinken met with Saudi Arabia’s de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman and Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan. The prospect of normalization of relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel is seen as a potential point of leverage in pushing the Israelis on easing civilian suffering in Gaza.

Blinken and Prince Faisal “discussed the urgent need to protect all civilians in Gaza and immediately increase humanitarian assistance to those in need,” the State Department said, adding that “resolving the conflict” and “preparing for the post-conflict phase” remain a top priority.

Blinken also “emphasized the United States’ commitment to achieving sustained peace through the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with security guarantees for Israel," the department said in a statement.

But the Saudis have made clear that normalization won't happen unless it is accompanied by a clear commitment from Israel to accept an independent Palestinian state by a date certain. Netanyahu and many members of his far-right government are opposed to a Palestinian state.

In Cairo on Thursday, Blinken will see Egyptian officials as well as meet with a six-member Arab committee that includes foreign ministers of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Morocco and the Palestinian Authority, according to an Egyptian diplomat.

This group has been charged with exploring ways to revamp, reform and revitalize the Palestinian Authority for a possible governance role in Gaza once the war is over. The West Bank-based Palestinian Authority has committed to reforms and replaced some of its top leadership.

Blinken's discussions are also expected to touch on the cease-fire negotiations that have taken on new urgency as the humanitarian situation in Gaza has become increasingly dire.

Qatari officials, whose country is the main interlocutor with Hamas, said this week they were “cautiously optimistic” after talks with Israel’s intelligence chief in Doha. But, Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesperson Majed al-Ansari said Tuesday that an Israeli ground operation in Rafah would set back any talks.

At least 31,819 Palestinians have been killed, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which doesn’t differentiate between civilians and combatants in its count but says women and children make up two-thirds of the dead. A United Nations food agency warned that “famine is imminent” in northern Gaza .

Palestinian militants killed some 1,200 people in the surprise Oct. 7 attack out of Gaza that triggered the war, and and abducted another 250 people. Hamas is still believed to be holding some 100 people hostage, as well as the remains of 30 others.

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