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Gaylord Opryland Resort is a really nice hotel to see. It basically is a huge green house with a hotel inside.There are several levels of the ground and some parts are just like tropical forests. It's really amazing.

There's a canal which runs through the green house and you can take a boat ride along the canal. Also we watched a beautiful water fountain show.

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The Parthenon is located in  Centennial Park, Nashville. The main attraction there is a big statue of goddess Athena. Apart from that, there is a nice art gallery too. The ticket is $6.00.

The statue is huge but it lacks of the beauty and softness in Athena in my opinion.
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By the time we finished the Fontanel mansion tour, we were too hungry. We had herd about this aquarium restaurant and thought to give it a try.

The restaurant is inside a mall. We were amazed once we enter the restaurant. Thousands of colorful sea fish were swimming around. It was a totally a beautiful aquarium. Probably more beautiful than some aquariums :)

The food was good too. It is bit priced but not too much, and it totally makes sense to charge a bit more in order to maintain this splendid aquarium.
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We went a weekend trip to Nashville, TN in March 2015. On Saturday morning, we visited the Fontanel Mansion which is a former house of Barbara Mandrell. They offer several tours per day.

The mansion is built with logs and is pretty big. It includes an indoor swimming pool too. The guide explains almost everything about the mansion and Barbara's family life too.

I think it was worth seeing and we enjoyed the tour.
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This was our 2nd visit to Grand canyon on our way back, because it was snowing heavily during our 1st visit.

So we had our breakfast at the hotel we stayed, and drove off to the visitor center. From there, we took a green shuttle hoping to catch a red shuttle which rides the Hermits rest rout while stopping at view points. We got down from several view points including Powell point and Mohave point. The views were splendid and breathtaking.

 

Then we took another green shuttle back to the visitor center, took our car and went for lunch. After lunch, starting from Martha point near visitor center, we started walking along the rim trail.

I have no words to describe the beauty I experienced along the rim trail. Every scene was different and beautiful. We walked and walked but didn't know it's getting late. We were supposed to return to my friend's home in Chandler that evening. So we had to stop in the middle and head back.

Next day we returned the rental car at Phoenix airport and flew back home.

This is one of the trips I loved the most. Arizona became my 2nd favorite place in US and of course,  Colorado holds the 1st place as always.
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Hoover dam is located on the state line of  Nevada and Arizona. We stopped a bit and started off to
Grand canyon as it was bit late.

 

 

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Next morning we parked our car in hotel Bellagio and went for it's breakfast buffet. It was more like a brunch for us. The buffet was really good. I'd give five stars for that.

Then we visited hotel Venetian, The Luxor and few more.

We were bit exhausted by mid day and took the monorail ride back. We took the car from Bellagio parking garage and drove off to Grand canyon hoping to revisit the canyon next day.

We visited Hoover dam on the way.

It was really late when we arrive in Grand canyon village.
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