Get an idea of all the great...
by Richmond
Get an idea of all the great things to do in 'America's Finest City' by first going to the The Visitor Center which is located at Horton Plaza, near Nordstrom, on the street level on First Avenue and F Street. The information experts at the Visitor Center are available by phone Monday through Saturday from 8:30am to 5pm. They are even open on Sunday's during summer! The International Visitor Information Center phone number is (619) 236-1212. When you are in San Diego, stop by the Visitor Center where their multi-lingual staff will be happy to help you with information about San Diego.
International Visitor Information Center
11 Horton Plaza
(First Avenue & 'F' Street)
San Diego, CA 92101
Phone: (619) 236-1212
Fax: (619) 230-7084
E-mail: sdinfo@sandiego.org
Old Town State Park
by ycnan
Old Town is the historical site of the beginnings of San Diego. Father Junipero Serra established the first California Mission in 1769 at Presidio Hill. San Diego was the first west coast Spanish settlement. The original Mexican village is still evident near Presidio Hill, with reconstructed adobe houses, stone wells and stables. Old Town is a state historical park and has ranger-led docent tours at the visitors' center. You will find an old blacksmith shop, and tourist shops selling Mexican pottery and Chinese boxes as well as salt water taffy, candles, and soap. A replica of a Wells Fargo stage coach station has an ATM matchine that looks like it's been there since the 1800s. There is mariachi and Peruvian music and Mexican folk dancing on weekends. You can take a hop-on-hop-off Trolley Tour that goes around the city from here. The restaurants are all very good; you can even get Italian, Japanese, and Chinese food. You can buy the usual souvenir T-shirts, hats, cowboy boots, etc., along with other not so usual items liike orignal Native American crafts, imports from around the world, and hundreds of hot sauces with names like "Jump Up & Kiss Me" Mexican food, music, and margaritas
Go to visit Mexico
by matcrazy1
Drive or walk to Mexico (border city Tijuana) to see quite another world and culture :-). The world biggest border crossing point waits for you! Well, Tijuana is not real Mexico but if you are so close... it's good option to take at least half a day trip across the border.
My top reasons to visit Tijuana:
1. I could say: I was in Mexico :-)
2. Mexican food and drinks :-)
3. inexpensive shopping (souvenirs)
4. it's quite different culture easily to find out of the main tourist district.
Details on my Tijuana, Mexico page here.
Old town Visitors Center
by Pawtuxet
The Old Town San Diego State HIstoric Park is run by the California State Parks system. The Visitors Center is a reproduction building..along with the rest in this row...made to look like the originals which were lost to fire many years ago. Here you can get the lay of the land...see what the original territory looked like...how it was all laid out as a town.
Noone was there when we visited...perhaps the impression would have been different if there were a guide.
Dress code and baseball caps :-)
by matcrazy1
I think that there is no dress code in San Diego neither for citizines nor for visitors. Just casual dress, even for people working with customers (in restaurants, supermarkets, gas stations, public transportation, museums, some offices).
The most popular are just jeans + T-shirt or light shirt, not only among tourists.
I noticed that some tourists (not only kids, adults as well) love baseball hats :-))). Are they all baseball fans?
From my friend Chris (balfor):
Most Americans are baseball fans. but that doesn't stop the rest of the people from wearing baseball caps either. If there was one kind of hat that Americans wear, it would be a baseball cap. It is used by the military as informal hats, it is used by people out and about who just want to keep the sun out of their eyes, they are given away by MANY companies as a way to advertise by having people wear their logo (and who is going to turn down a free ball cap? ) there are even stores in the malls who only sell ball caps. So yes, we love our baseball caps here!
Thank you Chris!
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