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Times Square New York City
328 Reviews At least once in your life, you have to see Times Square. The cacophany of lights and sounds and constant movement can be overwhelming to the senses. There is definitely an energy here - and a sense...
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Fremont Street Experience Las Vegas
94 Reviews If you're not staying in Downtown Las Vegas, jump on The Deuce (the bus that runs the length of the stip) and get off at the last stop which is Fremont Street. This is where you will find some of the...
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Bourbon Street New Orleans
67 Reviews Bourbon Street is the core of New Orleans' nightlife. It is a street that runs the length of the historic French Quarter, and is lined with bars, nightclubs, and souvenir shops. For parents traveling...
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Golden Gate Bridge San Francisco
306 Reviews The Golden Gate Bridge is the longest suspension bridge in the world and one of the major symbols of the United States. Walking across the Bridge on a clear day gives you some different -- and...
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Walt Disney World Orlando
236 Reviews You can rent a personal watercraft and explore the Village Lake. There are Sea Raycer's for one to two persons and can be rented for 30, 45 or 60 minutes. Driver must be 18 or over and have valid...
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Michigan Avenue Chicago
107 Reviews it is a nice way to unwind here after a hectic walking tour of millenium park during the spring and summer and autumn why? since the huge ice skating rink is replaced by a huge Park Grill Outdoor...
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CN Tower Toronto
274 Reviews Let the elevator take you to to the top of (what was once) the tallest free standing structure in the world and you'll have a great view of Toronto and Lake Ontario. The CN Tower is 1,815.4 ft feet...
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Universal Studios Los Angeles
160 Reviews We went there on Monday, in December. Weather was not bad and it wasn't full with crowds. Preferred parking fee was 20$ and entrance was 77$ (You can come back again, it is one year fee) It opens at...
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Southernmost Point Key West
65 Reviews I must admit that I felt a bit of nostalgia as we reached the area known as Southernmost Point at the bottom of Whitehead Street. There isn't much there besides a huge marker always crowded with...
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Stanley Park Vancouver
194 Reviews If you are driving through the park you will most likely drive by Prospect Point, which is a little bit higher up in the park. From up here you have a great view over the Lions Gate Bridge, North...
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Old Montreal Montreal
208 Reviews The only outdoor skating area in Montreal just opened in the Old Port of Montreal. =) If you are courageous enough to bear the cold and want to enjoy the outdoors, this is for you! Bring your whole...
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Faneuil Hall / Quincy Market Boston
91 Reviews Faneuil Hall is a fun marketplace to visit, full of life and busyness. People come here to shop, have lunch, catch up with friends or just watch the people. There are food vendors and restaurants as...
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Chichen Itza Cancún
89 Reviews It´s a couple of hours by car from Cancun, but I think that it's impossible to skip its visit. Chichen-Itza it's popular worldwide, and it would be silly not to visit it, being so close. So, have...
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Balboa Park San Diego
117 Reviews Balboa Park is just northeast of downtown. It is a beautiful piece of land with vast expanses of lush green lawns, many trees and blooming flowers. At this park there are hiking and biking trails,...
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Pike Place Market Seattle
179 Reviews Pike Place Market is a fascinating place to walk and shop. The market has an interesting history. Back in 1906 Seattle citizens were outraged by the cost of certain produce most notably onions. They...
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Pearl Harbor Honolulu
90 Reviews At 7:55 a.m. Pacific Time on 7 December 1941, some 360 Japanese war planes descended on the naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. This heinous, preemptive attack which took place while peace...
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Liberty Bell Philadelphia
63 Reviews OK, you can't really touch it, but you can get pretty darn close to it and have your picture made with this American icon. The line to get into the building which now houses the Bell was wrapped all...
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Beaches/South Beach/Art Deco District Miami
84 Reviews pictured is the dock across collins ave from the fontainbleau hotel. this non descript mooring has some significance in the history of miami beach. in the 1960's the houseboat from the televison show...
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NASA Johnson Space Center Houston
64 Reviews If you go to Houston, you have to visit the Space Center! After all, Houston is where NASA-Johnson Space Center is located. That's where the astronauts train and where NASA curates the lunar rocks...
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Malecon Puerto Vallarta
20 Reviews One of the most touristy, but truly beautiful things to do in Puerto Vallarta is to take a walk along the Malecon. Local artist display their paintings, there is often a sandcastle competition on the...
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Ocean Drive Miami Beach
20 Reviews Ocean Drive is the epicenter of cool. But it's also the epicenter of thuginess. This area really attracts all types, and many who come here don't fit the wealthy, pretty South Beach stereotype. Ocean...
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5th Avenue Playa del Carmen
11 Reviews If you want to go shopping, Playa del Carmen is the place for you. Look for the 5 th avenue, a street with more than a mile long filled with shops, cafes and restaurants. You can also catch the ferry...
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Riverwalk & Riverwalk Mall San Antonio
97 Reviews To me famous San Antonio Riverwalk was just like taking a nice walk along the town's area that is bordering the San Antonio River. But yes, there one can indeed find out how San Antonio is a romantic,...
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Zocalo Mexico City
84 Reviews Undoubtedly Mexico City’s most well known landmark and top of the list on the “must see” list. Considered by Mexicans to be the heart of Mexico City, this enormous plaza surrounded by gorgeous...
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Place Royale & Le Petit Champlain Quebec
72 Reviews The oldest commercial area in North America ! This is one of the nicest area of town. Pedestrian streets lined up with nice restaurants and shops. The area was in bad shape until the 70s when the...
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http://www.gg.ca/visitus/index_e.aspVisit Rideau Hall where the govenor general of Canada lives and worksBook a tour1-866-842-4422To book a tour of the Mint613-993-8997Fireworks take place on Victoria Day (may) and Canada DayTry and visit the RCMP horse stable or at least try to see if there are any "musical ride" Police horse show/choreography.
If you're pressed for time and have only two days for San Francisco, here's what you can do to see major sites in this beautiful city:1. See the Golden Gate Bridge in the morning and then 2. Cross to the other side for a quick tour of Sausalito (breakfast) and just appreciate the view of SFO and see Alcatraz from afar (actually going on island takes too much time) 3. Off to explore Fisherman’s Wharf (lunch) 4. Mid afternoon – Union Square, and try to ride the Powell cable car which starts about a block away (near the theatre district) 5. Head off to Chinatown in the evening for dinner 6. Early morning jog around a major park (if you have energy to exercise); List of parks at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parks_in_San_Francisco,_California 7. Next day, maybe try to get to Coit Tower for a panoramivc view from Telegraph Hill. 8. If you still have time, pass by the crookedest street (Lombard...
I can think of three places to bring kids (and those young at heart like me) when in Las Vegas, Nevada:1.Gameworks has state-of-the-art games for kids (accompanied by parents); it is a joint venture of Sega and Universal. They are at 3785 Las Vegas Blvd S # 10, Las Vegas, NV 89109, (702) 432-4263 and the website is at http://www.gameworks.com/2.The Wild Island Family Adventure Park in Sparks, Nevada has wonderful rides like Fire and Ice. Unfortunately, the Wet and Wild which I used to go to (loved the Derstuca almost 90 degree water slide!) shut down in 2004, but there are talks that they will reopen somewhere else.3.The Southern Nevada Zoo - they have 150 species of plants and animals http://www.lasvegaszoo.com/However, you might also want to check out the white tigers at the Mirage Hotel -the open-air home of Siegfried & Roy's Royal White Tigers is available for public viewing around...
The Adirondacks are an eastern American mountain range that are geologically independent of the Appalachian Mountains. The rock that forms these mountains is actually part of the Canadian Shield; while the Appalachians are over 200 million years old and eroding, the Adirondacks are a young 20 million and still growing.The Adirondacks are filled with lakes. Most famous are perhaps Lake Placid and Lake George; less famous but still beautiful are the Fulton Chain of Lakes and Blue Mountain Lake. There are also numerous other lakes: Indian Lake, Long Lake, Saranac Lakes, Elk Lake, Paradox Lake, and Ausable Lake are only a few. This mountain range is also the headwaters of the Hudson River which arises in the High Peaks region, home to the highest of the region's mountains, including 46 peaks over 4,000 feet.Most of the Adirondacks are enclosed in 6-million acre Adirondack Park, the largest...
The Good Old US of A is known for its open road and huge highway network. These idea od the open road also extends to Canada and Mexico as well. How did it all get started? Or more importantly – why? Believe it of not, it was for Military defence of the USA. The ability to move men, machines and tanks around quickly to protect against armed invasion. I have heard a lot of songs about the open road, but none that mention moving tanks. The idea of creating this massive road network started in the 1930’s. Later Congress passed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944. It set out to create a massive 40,000 (64,374 km) network of high quality paved roads. As the act says itself, the roads should be "so located, as to connect by routes, direct as practical, the principal metropolitan areas, cities, and industrial centres, to serve the National Defence, and to connect at suitable points, routes of...
The tour so far has only covered the mostly settled parts of the continent, however there are millions of square miles of land located in the northern reaches - places like Alaska, Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut and the northern parts of Canada’s various provinces. It is more difficult and expensive to visit these areas so I have only made a couple of trips to those parts of North America. While on a business trip to Radisson in Quebec’s north, where James Bay and Hudson Bay meet each other, I was treated to a fishing trip by the hosts. As shown here, I managed to catch a very nice trout, thanks to our group being flown into an isolated river by two old Otter float-planes (2nd photo). These workhorses of the north are famous worldwide for their ruggedness and dependability. Our pilots joined us in the fishing while waiting for us to board for the return flight to our meeting site....
While in:LOS ANGELES - Universal Studios, Knotts Berry Farm & Disneyland, Venice BeachSAN DIEGO - Sea World, Legoland & San Diego ZooSAN FRANCISCO - Fisherman's Wharf, Cable car ride, Crookedest Street, LegolandHope this helps!Happy Travels!
During a 2006 visit to Glacier National Park in Montana, we only had time for one decent hike. Following a hotel breakfast we caught the 8:30 AM voyage of the tour boat 'Chief Two Guns' to the end of Swiftcurrent Lake, followed by a short hike to Lake Josephine where we boarded a second boat, 'Morning Eagle' which dropped us off near the end of that lake. From there, we began our climb toward Grinnell Glacier on the Continental divide. The hiking trail to Grinnell had very sharp and deep drop-offs into the valley below for most of its length and this view shows the three lakes we passed on our way up. It was a great climb in beautiful weather, taking us just over three hours to reach Grinnell Glacier at a bit over 6000-ft elevation (2046-m).We next drove over the Rockies on the ‘Going-to-the-Sun’ Road where we crested the Continental Divide (2nd photo). A great view of the steep valley...
As you leave the western mountains and head east, there are a number of places down through the interior of North America with interesting scenes. The Canadian Rockies end rather abruptly and you are soon out onto the flatlands of Alberta – in this case near the community of Okotoks, south of Calgary. The impressive 'Big Rock' stands alone in relatively flat countryside. It turns out that this estimated 16,500 tonne specimen is the largest glacial erratic in the world, dropped on this field 10,000 years ago when the glacier that carried it melted. For a size comparison, that is me standing on a broken off piece in front of the left portion of the rock. It began its life on a Rocky Mountain peak in present day Jasper National Park, but was dislodged by a massive landslide 18,000 years ago. The side of the mountain ended up atop a glacier that was flowing below, resulting in the landslide...
The New England states of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine are among the oldest in America and, in addition to having historic cities such as Boston and Hartford, they are famous for their ‘unspoiled’ wilds. Since I live next door to them, I have visited many times over the years and have had a chance to sample them for myself. In this case, my wife, children and I were canoeing in northern Maine’s Baxter State Park (home of the famous Mt Katahdin) when we came across this bull moose swimming in one of its lakes. While I fumbled with my camera, the wind blew us so close that he submerged and all his moose flies took flight and landed on us instead!The 2nd photo was taken along Maine’s Atlantic coastline in rugged Acadia National Park. This is an area famous for its multimillion dollar vacation cottages of the rich and famous, including the...
Casablanca Hotel New York City
1 Review and 1901 Opinions This is a Hotel /Bed and Breakfast. It is a oasis in the middle of Times Square. It is quiet inside...
Argonaut Hotel - A Kimpton Hotel San Francisco
4 Reviews and 1844 Opinions There's no doubt this hotel, provides a level of luxury and convenience, that many travellers will...
Four Seasons Las Vegas Las Vegas
8 Reviews and 1181 Opinions Definitely one of the best hotels in Las Vegas where I found everything what I want. The hotel is at...
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Q: Are there, like in many European countries, limits for the amount of cash you can legally bring with you in and out of the...
A: For Canada, if you bring in more than $10,000 CAD (or equivalent in other currency) you will need to declare it to customs but there is no limit. There is a box on the...
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