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sizes the work of contemporary 10-min. intro video and plan to nities dancing. Plan to spend at may be available (and check the
artists and you can support them spend a couple of hours to really least four hours, taking breaks website for events, such as gun
by purchasing their work in the gift understand the importance of between listening to Iranian tradi- fights).
shop (if you buy elsewhere, insist what it explains and celebrates. tional music as dervishes whirl,
on authentication, since counter- Be sure to see the gallery on the Australian aborigines blow into There are lots of other things you
feiting is widespread). history and techniques of battling didgeridoos, or classical piano may prefer to prioritize, from the
Brass Armadillo Antique Mall wildfires, which, after several masterpieces. Visitors are even Challenger Space Center to
https://www.brassarmadillo.com/p years of the most severe burns in allowed to play some instruments. architectural tours. Phoenix is
hoenix/ was our exception to California history, is badly MIM is a mind-expanding and definitely a hot destination in the
shopping, since antiques bring overdue for our attention. The Hall ecstatic cultural experience not to best sense of the term and may
history alive and items could have does a lot of important work to be missed. be the most underappreciated big
long-term resale value. There are educate children on fire safety, so city for visitors.
over 500 dealers at the mid-town bring them along for that section NORTH
location (another even bigger is in (and the kid in all of us can climb Deer Valley Petroglyph Preserve Our Visit HQs
the suburb of Goodyear, making aboard some of the 130 vehicles). http://shesc.asu.edu/dvpp in north Cambria Hotel Downtown
Greater Phoenix the nation's This year is the 20th anniversary Phoenix is one of the few treasure h t t p s : / / w w w . c a m b r i a -
collectibles capital). There are of 9/11, which caused the deaths troves of ancient Native American hotelphoenix.com/ recently
millions of items for sale, so you of nearly 350 firefighters, so petroglyphs (images carved into opened to rave reviews in the
could spend days talking with check the site for special rocks) near a major city. There are heart of Phoenix's Roosevelt Row
specialists about the stories programs. 1,500 on dark basalt spread over arts district. The in-depth review:
behind everything from Revolu- Desert Botanical Garden 47 acres, made between 500 and https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/re
tionary War powder horns to early https://dbg.org/visit/ has 50,000 7,000 years ago, many acces- view-cambria-hotel-downtown-
typewriters, as well as more desert plants from around the sible in a self-guided quarter-mile phoenix-arizona-scott-s-smith/
current items, such as Star Wars world on 55 acres, with trails walk. The museum provides Hotel Adeline in Scottsdale
memorabilia and 8-track tapes. about wildflowers, desert everything that is known about https://www.hoteladeline.com/, a
Get there early on weekends gardening, the Sonoran Desert, these largely mysterious pictures new member of Marriott's upscale
because lines to get in can be and other themes. Dogs allowed of animals, humans, and other Tribute brand, is near the lively
long, especially when winter birds on certain days. beings. Old Town. The in-depth review:
fly in. Pioneer Living History Museum https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/re
NORTHEAST https://pioneeraz.org/ is a 90-acre view-hotel-adeline-scottsdale-
SOUTHEAST Music Instrument Museum recreation of Arizona's Wild West arizona-scott-s-smith/
Hall of Flame https://hallof- https://mim.org/ One of the best of 1863-1912, with 29 historic Cafe Zuzu in Hotel Valley Ho
flame.org/ is the world's largest its kind in the world because of buildings, including an opera https://www.hotelvalleyho.com/zu
museum devoted to firefighting, the breadth of its display of over house and a blacksmith shop, as zu/menus has a wide range of
with an extraordinary collection of 4,000 instruments from 200 well as a fascinating Telephone dishes, from its own vegan burger
equipment dating back to 1725 countries/territories and use of History Museum. You can guide to blackened Scottish salmon,
and riveting presentations in the short videos showing musicians yourself or costumed volunteers and is famous for its desserts.
70,000 sq. ft. space. Start with the playing them and their commu-

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