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Palm Springs An Oasis of Pleasure and Interest If you are looking for a glamorous resort with privacy and a taste of the desert's natural beauty, Palm Springs could be for you.
Top 10 Palm Springs Activities - Visit the Desert Hot Springs — mineral springs feed the Spa resort
- Enjoy the natural landscapes of Joshua Tree National Park
- Indian Canyons — ancestral home of Cahuilla Indians
- Moorten Botanical Gardens — four acres with more than 3,000 plant varieties
- Village Green museum complex
- Film festivals
- Downtown enclaves with coffee houses and outdoor eateries
- Shop at one of the many malls with friendly, helpful service
- Play golf at one of the specialist spas
- Visit a spa casino
A Glamorous Resort in the Desert Palm Springs became a favorite resort of the rich and famous in the 1930s when Hollywood celebrities used it as an ideal hideaway to relax, play tennis, golf, and take advantage of the natural hot springs while enjoying parties and other activities safely out of the eye of gossip columnists.
Today, Palm Springs is somewhat more open, although many of the rich and famous live in walled communities in the desert nearby. Its desert surroundings add the possibility of many different activities to the fun of a pleasant resort city.
A City Made for the Tourist Palm Springs is home to some 50,000 permanent residents, but there are more than 1.5 million tourists who visit during the year. They are attracted by the weather; Palm Springs enjoys approximately 350 days of sunshine every year. Temperatures can be fierce in the summer, as high as 105? from July to August, and a very pleasant 70? in December and January. As you would expect from a desert climate, humidity is low most of the year.
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