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	Follow into the steps of explorer John Muir and visit Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks.</p>
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	These two parks lie side by side, united by the scenic Generals Highway, and encompass the most &nbsp;rugged portions of the Sierra Nevada. The landscape testifies to nature’s size, beauty, and diversity - huge mountains, rugged foothills, deep canyons, vast caverns, and the world’s largest trees, Sequoiadendron giganteum. In all the world, sequoias grow naturally only here, on the west slope of the spectacular Sierra Nevada, in some 75 groves that tower above the surrounding forests.</p>
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	In the early evening, arrive in the small town of Bakersfield, an “All-American town” in the Southern Joaquin Valley and home of the Bakersfield Sound</p>