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City guests will not lack entertainments and ways to spend time as it can be claimed beyond a doubt that the city of San Francisco offers the richest choice of entertainments meeting each taste and fancy. The San Francisco Zoo park is located in a ten minute drive from the center of the city. Among its inhabitants tourists will meet lemurs and sticktails, penguins and monkeys, peacocks and giraffes. This nook of wild nature offers a great collection of spiders. The youngest visitors of the park will enjoy to take a trip by excursion train and to try various roundabouts in action. A visit to the Aquarium of the Bay will be full of impressions offering its visitors to walk through a great underwater glass tunnel. Te visitors will also have a chance to enjoy big terrarium inhabited with various species of snakes as well as numerous aquariums inhabited by typical sea world inhabitants – large jellyfish, starfish and bright fishes. The city will be of great pleasure to visit for open air leisure enthusiasts as its area and suburbs locate numerous parks and nature reserve. A marvelous and best worth visiting is justly considered to be the Golden Gate park being a wild nature oasis of breathtaking beauty, located in the city jungle. The territory of the park is crossed with plenty of hiking routes. The parkland features numerous lounge areas for picnics and locates several attractive coffee houses. The main feature of the popular park is plenty of marvelous plants and flowers. … Read further

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Advices for travellers

7. Drivers should not keep opened bottles of alcohol in the car. These can be only kept in a luggage compartment. Drunk driving is considered to be one of the most serious crimes. 8. Smoking is banned in all public and crowded places as well as in social institutions of the city. One should pay particular attention to the restrictive signs. Close to all public establishments and entertainment … Open

Active recreation

For those who wish to get a unique experience while watching beautiful theatrical performances, it is worth going to one of the cabaret or art cafés of San Francisco. One of the best centers of this kind is the art cafe The Speakeasy and Oasis. The Marrakech Magic Theater club will amaze with its magic performances not only children but also adults, who will be wondering how the showmen do their tricks. Another … Open

Festivals and events in San Francisco

The locals love beer, meeting annually and inviting city guests to visit three main festivals dedicated to the foamy drink. The first festival is held in mid-April and is called the International Beer Festival. Visiting the event, you can try more than a hundred varieties of beer, represented by companies from around the world. The festival takes place in the Festival Pavilion, which is located on the territory of … Open

Travel guide to San Francisco

Amateurs of hiking should definitely visit Chinatown quarter. This is real China in miniature, which will please with unusual architecture, specialized restaurants, and shops with goods from China. This area began to emerge in the middle of the 19th century. Refugees from China built their homes here. During the existence, it retained many interesting architectural monuments. Now, Chinatown is known for its numerous … Open

Traditions and mentality of San Francisco

Plenty of bright gifts and souvenirs as well as festive treats, folk music performances and contests and numerous other entertainments are offered within this culture event. The Taste of Russia Festival is a charity event as all costs accumulated during the holiday are given to one of the local funds. These are only few country holidays and celebrations which will add to the pleasure of city guests during a vacation. … Open

Cuisine and top restaurants

Another elite eating worth visiting during a San Francisco vacation is the Burma Superstar restaurant specializing in Asian cuisine. Unlike two mentioned above gastronomy destination this restaurant features rather affordable pricing policy meanwhile the eating house offers the same high class service as other upscale gastronomy establishments of the city do. Seafood admirers will have a chance to try excellent … Open

Top sigths of USA

Rockefeller Center becomes the most famous destination in the city on Christmas Eve. People come there to enjoy a beautiful Christmas tree. There is a magnificent park near this large office center, and on winter an ice skating rink is organized there. Shiny garlands and neon signboards have become typical for this part of the city. If you move your feet to the closest underground walkway, you will find one more iconic place - the Guinness World Records Museum. Both the location and items exhibited are very unusual. When describing cultural landmarks of the United States, it's simply impossible to fail to mention the Metropolitan Museum. This museum exhibits a large collection of art. Visitors will find here works of famous European and American artists, and several halls are dedicated to collections of antiquity and other ancient artifacts. The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum exhibits collections of spacecrafts, airplanes and historic documents connected with the history of aeronautics. … Open

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