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"Xavier" wrote: Hi all! I've been searching the Internet for must-see things in L.A area but all the websites I've visited give no specific information (is Hollywood the only thing to visit in L.A???? I'm sure it's not!) We'll be in L.A for 1 or 2 days and we'll drive to San Francisco along the coast. Since we're not in a hurry, we'll take about 2 days from L.A to San Francisco, so we have time enough to see the magnificent Californian coast. Could you give some advice about things we shoud do and see (or not do and not see) in L.A. area ? About the coast, we'll need somewhere to sleep....(believe it or not!! :-)) I already know that we'll find tons of motels but could you recommend any one in particular because of its location, service, nearby sightseeing.... What are your interests? There is a lot to see in the Los Angeles area, but what to see depends on your interests. Check any tour guide book on Los Angeles for ideas or do a google search. |
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"Xavier" wrote: Thank you to all of you who are helping us!! Many of you ask which are our interests. We plan to go to Hollywood to see the main attractions, but, for instance, I don't think we go to see the star's houses... I think that it's not interesting...unless un plan to buy one of them and want to get some ideas... :-). I prefer to see the main beaches and surrounding nice cities. If there's any spectacular museum, I don't want to loose it, neither. Visit Santa Monica and Venice Beach. They are both nice communities to say in while you're in the Los Angeles area and you could easily spend a couple of days just walking along the beach, swimming, and visiting the shops and restaurants there. You might also enjoy one of the movie studio tours, or maybe visiting the Griffith Park observatory, or perhaps the Getty museum. |
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"Xavier" wrote: Thank you to all of you who are helping us!! Many of you ask which are our interests. We plan to go to Hollywood to see the main attractions, but, for instance, I don't think we go to see the star's houses... I think that it's not interesting...unless un plan to buy one of them and want to get some ideas... :-). I prefer to see the main beaches and surrounding nice cities. If there's any spectacular museum, I don't want to loose it, neither. Visit Santa Monica and Venice Beach. They are both nice communities to say in while you're in the Los Angeles area and you could easily spend a couple of days just walking along the beach, swimming, and visiting the shops and restaurants there. You might also enjoy one of the movie studio tours, or maybe visiting the Griffith Park observatory, or perhaps the Getty museum. |
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On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 08:54:40 +0200, "Xavier"
wrote: Thank you to all of you who are helping us!! Many of you ask which are our interests. We plan to go to Hollywood to see the main attractions, but, for instance, I don't think we go to see the star's houses... I think that it's not interesting...unless un plan to buy one of them and want to get some ideas... :-). You're going to be a bit disappointed since there ain't no Hollywood. There is a district of Los Angeles known by that name, and there is the tourist stretch of Hollywood Blvd, which is a bit of an eye-opener to visitors from Podunk Hollow, Iowa, but there's really nothing that makes it look like the mythical Hollywood. The major studios mostly were elsewhere (past tense being appropriate here) and the stars live in Beverly Hills and other posh suburbs. I prefer to see the main beaches and surrounding nice cities. If there's any spectacular museum, I don't want to loose it, neither. LA County has one long beach for all practical purposes. Sections of it have names, like Manhattan Beach but I'm not sure there are what you might be thinking of as "surrounding nice cities". I'm a little lost because at the L.A tourism webpage, they don't give many ideas of things to do... so (maybe) there aren't really many things to do!! In that case, we'll head to the coast slowly and visiting everything you can kindly recomend. I'm not sure what web page that would be, but remember most people think of Los Angeles as the whole area from El Toro to Malibu and Newhall; the city of LA is considerably smaller and a list of tourist sights within the city proper is necessarily going to be a lot shorter than a list of all the metro area's places of intereset. ************* DAVE HATUNEN ) ************* * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps * |
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On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 08:54:40 +0200, "Xavier"
wrote: Thank you to all of you who are helping us!! Many of you ask which are our interests. We plan to go to Hollywood to see the main attractions, but, for instance, I don't think we go to see the star's houses... I think that it's not interesting...unless un plan to buy one of them and want to get some ideas... :-). You're going to be a bit disappointed since there ain't no Hollywood. There is a district of Los Angeles known by that name, and there is the tourist stretch of Hollywood Blvd, which is a bit of an eye-opener to visitors from Podunk Hollow, Iowa, but there's really nothing that makes it look like the mythical Hollywood. The major studios mostly were elsewhere (past tense being appropriate here) and the stars live in Beverly Hills and other posh suburbs. I prefer to see the main beaches and surrounding nice cities. If there's any spectacular museum, I don't want to loose it, neither. LA County has one long beach for all practical purposes. Sections of it have names, like Manhattan Beach but I'm not sure there are what you might be thinking of as "surrounding nice cities". I'm a little lost because at the L.A tourism webpage, they don't give many ideas of things to do... so (maybe) there aren't really many things to do!! In that case, we'll head to the coast slowly and visiting everything you can kindly recomend. I'm not sure what web page that would be, but remember most people think of Los Angeles as the whole area from El Toro to Malibu and Newhall; the city of LA is considerably smaller and a list of tourist sights within the city proper is necessarily going to be a lot shorter than a list of all the metro area's places of intereset. ************* DAVE HATUNEN ) ************* * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps * |
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"Xavier" wrote in message ... Thank you to all of you who are helping us!! Many of you ask which are our interests. We plan to go to Hollywood to see the main attractions, but, for instance, I don't think we go to see the star's houses... I think that it's not interesting...unless un plan to buy one of them and want to get some ideas... :-). I prefer to see the main beaches and surrounding nice cities. If there's any spectacular museum, I don't want to loose it, neither. LA County Museum. Getty Museum. If you have a chance to go to Pasadena, the Huntington Memorial Library and Gardens. You can do a tour of the California Institute of Technology. Call their public information office, you may be able to get a free guided tour with a student. Another good place for a free tour is UCLA. Also call their public affairs or admissions office to get a free guided tour. I'm a little lost because at the L.A tourism webpage, they don't give many ideas of things to do... so (maybe) there aren't really many things to do!! Or maybe there are just way too many things to do. In that case, we'll head to the coast slowly and visiting everything you can kindly recomend. As some of you already know, I would have liked to visit the JPL at Pasadena (but you must book for a visit 4 months ahead!! and 4 months ago I didn't even know if I could have some vacations!! I'm a freelance computer analyst and developer and never know when I'll be able to leave the office.) I'll have to leave Pasadena for another year :-(((((((((( See the above for Cal Tech. Some of you already gave me, some days ago, some tips about astronomy sites to visit. I'll go there instead of the JPL. Anyway, I don't want to focus the visit on space-related sites, since I travel with other 3 persons that are not much interested in that subject and I don't want them to be bored. |
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"Xavier" wrote in message ... Thank you to all of you who are helping us!! Many of you ask which are our interests. We plan to go to Hollywood to see the main attractions, but, for instance, I don't think we go to see the star's houses... I think that it's not interesting...unless un plan to buy one of them and want to get some ideas... :-). I prefer to see the main beaches and surrounding nice cities. If there's any spectacular museum, I don't want to loose it, neither. LA County Museum. Getty Museum. If you have a chance to go to Pasadena, the Huntington Memorial Library and Gardens. You can do a tour of the California Institute of Technology. Call their public information office, you may be able to get a free guided tour with a student. Another good place for a free tour is UCLA. Also call their public affairs or admissions office to get a free guided tour. I'm a little lost because at the L.A tourism webpage, they don't give many ideas of things to do... so (maybe) there aren't really many things to do!! Or maybe there are just way too many things to do. In that case, we'll head to the coast slowly and visiting everything you can kindly recomend. As some of you already know, I would have liked to visit the JPL at Pasadena (but you must book for a visit 4 months ahead!! and 4 months ago I didn't even know if I could have some vacations!! I'm a freelance computer analyst and developer and never know when I'll be able to leave the office.) I'll have to leave Pasadena for another year :-(((((((((( See the above for Cal Tech. Some of you already gave me, some days ago, some tips about astronomy sites to visit. I'll go there instead of the JPL. Anyway, I don't want to focus the visit on space-related sites, since I travel with other 3 persons that are not much interested in that subject and I don't want them to be bored. |
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Xavier wrote: I'm a little lost because at the L.A tourism webpage, they don't give many ideas of things to do... so (maybe) there aren't really many things to do!! Hello, Xavier. Are you referring to the Los Angeles Convention and Visitors Bureau website (http://www.visitlosangeles.info/jsp/visitla.jsp)? Because it has a whole "What to Do" section that looks quite useful to me. I just tried selecting a few options from the clickable boxes in the Activities section and wound up with seven pages of suggestions. Including, by the way, the wonderful Museum of Television and Radio in Beverly Hills. Patty |
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Xavier wrote: I'm a little lost because at the L.A tourism webpage, they don't give many ideas of things to do... so (maybe) there aren't really many things to do!! Hello, Xavier. Are you referring to the Los Angeles Convention and Visitors Bureau website (http://www.visitlosangeles.info/jsp/visitla.jsp)? Because it has a whole "What to Do" section that looks quite useful to me. I just tried selecting a few options from the clickable boxes in the Activities section and wound up with seven pages of suggestions. Including, by the way, the wonderful Museum of Television and Radio in Beverly Hills. Patty |
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Todd Kunioka wrote:
The Grove Please tell more about The Grove. What is it? Worth the time when next I'm down there? Irv said: I lived in LA for many years, and the best thing I ever saw (dimly, thru the smog) was the city limits sign on the way out. When DisneyLand opened, I hitch-hiked down there to visit it. On the way, having breakfast in Norwalk, the smog was so bad that it was painful to keep my tearing eyes open to see what I was eating. A couple of years ago, I was on the Santa Monica freeway and, for the first time in my life from there, saw mountains in the distance. __________________________________________________ __________ A San Franciscan in (where else?) San Francisco http://geocities.com/dancefest/ http://geocities.com/iconoc/ ICQ: http://wwp.mirabilis.com/19098103 IClast at SFbay Net |
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