Visit San Francisco and travels to the past interesting

Contrary to many tourist destinations in the United States, the summer months is not an ideal time for tourists to visit San Francisco, the city born from a "rush" to find gold in the mid-1800s and the idea was buried deep into the past with horrific earthquake 110 years ago.

Tourism travels San Francisco and travels to the past interesting.

summer in San Francisco as a "monster", thick fog, cold wind cut in the flesh (American writer Mark Twain once commented, the coldest winter that I tasted was summer in San Francisco). To enjoy San Francisco, you should come here in the fall, warmer weather.

The first impression

For years, many visitors to San Francisco to hear it immediately think of the image of the city logo. It is the Golden Gate Bridge (Golden Gate) 1.7 miles long with reddish brown highlights on the green background of the Pacific Ocean and green trees of the hill side of Martin Highlands. But from Asia to fly to and land at dawn, after making entry procedures, delegation can not go to the hotel immediately, but must wait until noon or early afternoon, have fun visiting, eating new finished dinner and overnight hotel. So, almost every tour San Francisco (also many tourists used to call short, loved the SF, the San Fran or discontent Frisco before San Francisco real inhabitants) and the bay of the same name are arrested Lombard Street first, known as the shortest route but ... sinuous, meandering in the world.

If every year throughout the San Francisco Bay area hosted approximately 23-24 million visitors each year, the individual is Lombard Street sights more than 2 million visitors. From early morning to past midnight, cars up and down constantly, tourists footsteps up and down on the terraces on either side of the road as Lombard Street turns into an entertainment and not the affluent residential area .

Lombard street is only 600 feet long (equivalent 182,88m) but every coach, travelers want to be a once in a lifetime just sightseeing nice move on the path of the world's most crooked, the last a few blocks away Russian Hill neighborhood. 27 degrees steep hillside in the ancient times when the car is not strong enough to rapidly rising labor is the main reason why this road was built in 1922. According to the timeline, the people living around the road paved this red adorn it look more beautiful in the spring and summer with a rose garden, hydrangeas.

Then, postcards, big screen feature film, advertising film on the small screen, and the cable car station natural beauty of the road have joined forces to turn it into an exciting sights of anyone traveling to San Francisco, just like traveling to Paris (France), the Champs Élysées to walking on or to Barcelona ( Spain), the esplanade at La Ramblas promenade. Only thing visitors made life more and more local residents disturbed. Can not forget to mention that movement from here to the coast hippie summer of love in 1967 also contributed to the world famous San Francisco.

The enchanted look past

visitors There are comments in the West Coast United States, San Francisco is a place worth visiting Los Angeles over time despite very thick fog hinders not less. Indeed this city has many interesting sights, such as the short journey into the past. Asian travelers to San Francisco never skip Chinatown Chinatown because this is said to be the largest, oldest in the whole of North America. But few visitors know that in San Francisco there is a "town" unique is also well worth a visit Japantown (Japanese city). Stretching across 10 blocks away, this is one of three remaining Japantown in the United States.

Those who prefer to watch the thriller Alcatraz (starring Clint Eastwood), The Rock (Nicolas Cage, Sean Connery plays) make certainly not miss the opportunity to visit the "house of stone", a small island prison Alcatraz in San Francisco about 2km, once home confinement notorious criminals such as Al Capone gangster boss. Previously known as one of the most fortified prison world, no prisoner escaped from, Alcatraz is now a museum for visitors.

Then there is photography or walk on the Golden Gate Bridge, visit places two very famous river is Fisherman's Wharf (wharf fisherman) and Embarcadero (pier) newly inscribed on the list of national monuments at risk of being canceled US should be preserved carefully. If you have time, you should rent a bike at the Fisherman's Wharf to slowly tours throughout the natural landscape stretching 13km to Golden Gate Bridge and ends at the town of Sausalito the other side of the bridge. Resubmit your bike on the ferry there and back to Fisherman's Wharf.