大峽谷，LAS VEGAS， 鳳凰城，洛杉磯，聖地亞哥的朋友幫忙看看。

這幾個城市，聖誕節期間的一般氣候如何？

有什麼特別好的餐館旅館可以推薦一下嗎？

謝謝！

For low cost and convenience, you should find a hotel in Williams, which is 60 miles away from the rim, 40 miles away from Flagstaff, and less than 2 hours driving to Sedona, a very beautiful place, but not many visitors go.

The Travelodge in William has a better deal than the Motel 6. Besides that, always check weather forecast first, otherwise you may see nothing in Grand Canyon.

今年這些地方都是暖冬。我在洛杉磯白天還要穿短袖。
大峽谷和 LAS VEGAS 要稍微注意天氣預報。最近天氣不錯。暖和。但是如果突然降雨降雪就難說了。
洛杉磯的好中餐館太多了。旅館從五六十的motel到幾百的都有。

打算去旅遊阿，聖誕節的機票很貴吧。。

If you have extra time in LA area, You may try to visit Palm Springs, which is located 140 miles east of LA (you need to drive on I-10 East Highway for about two hours from LA area). Palm Springs is one of the best places in the country for the people to live and visit during winter time. There are so many retired people come from all over the county, some even from Canada visit here and spend their whole winter in this area.

I just took some pictures from there, remember, this is in December!



on I-111 local freeway (Palm Springs area)




on I-10, you can see the windmills which produce electricity for local area






Indian Wells Golf course (in the morning, Palm Springs area)






Indian Wells Tennis Center (World number one tennis players: R. Federer and M. Sharapova will play here in March 2007, both win the championship here this year, Pacific Life Open)




about enter the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway





pictures were taken in the Tramp which takes visitors to the top of the highest mountain in Southern California





at peak, you can see the snow, it was very cold!

[ 本帖最後由 goodoctor 於 2006-12-15 00:01 編輯 ]

太謝謝大家了，真的很受益。

那個誰誰，請查你的悄悄話。

如果你可以吃辣，一定要去拉斯韋加斯唐人街的金鼎川菜館，來美國10年，去過很多地方的唐人街的中餐館，只有這家的川菜味道最好。

從洛杉磯開車到聖地亞哥，途徑一個城市叫 Irvine, 是加州大學Irvine分校(UCI)的
所在地。是個新興城市，華人很多(亞裔超過30%)。此城有幾個很大的華人超市，而
且有很多很好的中國餐館。