The United States is one of the largest countries in the world, and within it offers unparalleled diversity: let’s see what travel options are available in 2023.
It’s hard to find a single nation in the world that offers such diversity within it: from the Rocky Mountains to the sunny beaches of Florida, through the Mississippi Plain, except for the Great Lakes, Niagara Falls, the Grand Canyon, and world-famous natural parks like Yellowstone and Yosemite.
a trip to the United States The only real difficulty is choosing your own itinerary and thus sacrificing something among the endless possibilities. Of course, there are also reasons of an economic nature, but this applies to every trip. Let’s try to outline possible itineraries for your dream trip to the USA.
Megacities: Between Skyscrapers, Parks, and Social Contradictions
American cities hold a special place in the collective imagination: places without borders, where the skyline is covered with skyscrapers so tall, and where wealth and poverty live side by side, creating contrasts that are recounted in many Hollywood films. The first city that comes to mind in this regard is New York, with its tough Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, and then Staten Island. There are many places to visit, including museums, the Ground Zero memorial, and the ever-present Central Park.
But one cannot fail to mention Los Angeles, with its mild and dry climate, the land of surfers, Hollywood and its stars and an endless sea of houses that stretches between Newport Beach, San Bernardino and San Fernando for more than 6,000 square kilometers. And what about Boston, Chicago, Miami, Salt Lake City, Seattle, and New Orleans?
Natural Beauty: Great parks, deserts, plains, and the Rocky Mountains
But the cities are only the most “human” aspect of the United States: what makes this nation truly unique is the diversity of natural beauty distributed across its 50 Confederate states. Anyone knows Niagara Falls, located on the border with Canada, is one of the most visited and picturesque natural landscapes in the world. But there’s also the stunning aridity of Arizona’s Grand Canyon, Great Lakes and geysers, and the pristine nature of parks like Yellowstone and Yosemite.
Then how can we not mention the contrast between the flourishing plains around the Mississippi River and the parched deserts in the West, like Death Valley or those in the California hinterland (who hasn’t heard of Joshua Tree?)?
Film tourism, roads, symbolic places
Many tourists also choose to tour the states in search of sites that made movie history, such as Monument Valley, or historic roads such as Route 66, which are no longer alive today, but can still be reconstructed by following directions between contemporary routes starting from Chicago and up to Los Angeles or vice versa.
Then there are the many symbolic places, such as the former plantations along the Mississippi River where African slaves were horribly exploited, or the happiest launch site for space rockets, Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveralfl.
The choice is very difficult, but the advice is: think of the trip as the first in a long series, there is always time to continue exploring this enormous nation!
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