(MENAFN Editorial) CARSON CITY, Nev., Jan. 9, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --Extraterrestrials, welcome to Nevada. Or should we say, "Welcome back"? Since your last visit to Area 51, we've missed you! The whole country has missed you, which is why the U.S. Defense Department spent $22 million on a program to find you. You've captured our imaginations and our hearts.

Nevada offers a plethora of activities and attractions for an advanced, time-traveling species. To help navigate the many options, TravelNevada has developed a southern Nevada loop itinerary specifically for our extraterrestrial visitors — with a special room rate at the Mizpah Hotel in Tonopah for extraterrestrials that show intergalactic ID card (valid through January 2018).

Itinerary for extraterrestrials: Las Vegas, ET Highway, Tonopah, Pahrump loop

Snapshot: 487 miles/784 km/8.284e-11 light years/2.54e-11 parsecs
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Solar day 1: Las Vegas/Valley of Fire State Park
If you only have one solar day on Earth, Las Vegas is a great way to see it all, from the Eiffel Tower replica at to the Egyptian pyramid at the . Travel back in time to Arthurian England — the human way, as opposed to actually time traveling — with a visit to the Tournament of Kings dinner and show experience at the . Homesick for Mars? , a mere 49 miles/8.3353e-12 light years to the east, offers the beautiful red sandstone landscapes of home. So realistic, scenes from 1994's "Star Trek: Generations" and 1990's "Total Recall" were filmed here.

Solar day 2: Extraterrestrial Highway to Tonopah
Things may have changed since your last visit to Area 51. Mainly, Nevada State Route 375 was named the Extraterrestrial Highway in 1996 in your honor. Heading out from Las Vegas, take Interstate 15 east and U.S. 93 north to where it intersects with the eastern end of the ET Highway at Crystal Springs (about 108 miles, or just teleport yourself there). Stock up on road trip snacks at , take a selfie at the ET Highway sign, and shop for souvenirs at the .

Heading west on the ET Highway, you'll notice a few dirt roads to the south heading to Area 51. For old times' sake, you can drive down them to take a look — but observe all posted signs. Area 51, you may remember, is within the Nevada Test and Training Range, and is not open to the public, human or extraterrestrial. Do not pass the gates into the military base — we'd hate for you to be detained again.

Continue west to the restaurant and gift shop in for a bite to eat before heading on to Tonopah. This is a former silver mining town — remember when your species was still digging for Ag and those other transition metals? — with a beautifully restored Victorian-era hotel known as the . Through January 2018, the Mizpah is offering a 20 percent discount on king and queen rooms for extraterrestrials showing their intergalactic ID cards. While in town, be sure to check out the and the . Fill up on barbecue and sample local suds at the — the cleverly named Half-life Hefeweizen testifies to our ingrained human interest in radioactivity. Before heading to bed, check out the . Tonopah, population 2,440 (2010 Census data), is a small community with little light pollution, providing a great vantage point to view this sweet corner of the galaxy.

Solar day 3: Tonopah to Pahrump and back to Las Vegas
Head south on U.S to Goldfield, another former silver mining town from the early 20th century. On the south end of this community, to the east of the highway, is the art installation. Paintings on half-buried cars, buses and other vehicles dot the landscape here in a sort of Stonehenge-like construction, only without references to the summer and winter solstices, or any other astrological or mathematical concepts. A great place for a selfie!

Continue on to Beatty for a quick bite to eat at the or . From here, it's a quick six miles/1.0206e-12 light years on Nevada State Route 374 to see the ghost town of and the adjacent . Then it's back to Beatty and south on U.S. 95 to Pahrump.

Pahrump, you will remember, is where Martians land in the 1996 film "Mars Attacks!", as it is the home of radio talk show host Art Bell, known for his interest in your species. Here, you can enjoy a adventure at Lake Spring Mountain inside the Spring Mountain Motor Resort & Country Club, swing the clubs at or the , and sample the vintages at the and .

Then it's back to Las Vegas. Whatever happens here stays here, so feel free to fly your aircraft — you know, those ones that move at high velocities with no visible signs of propulsion that the DOD was studying…

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