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San Diego, Usa, a Place of Hidden Treasures

by James Chapman on 05/10/10 at 10:01 am

San Diego is the eighth largest city in the United States and second largest city in California. Being on the Californian coastline San Diego enjoys an abundance of sunshine and its many sandy beaches will allow you to soak up all that sun when you relax to sunbathe.

Most international flights to San Diego stopover in Phoenix, Arizona airport to refuel and it is quite a spectacular sight as you fly through the Phoenix city heights and see people in the windows of high buildings.

 

Being on the Californian coastline San Diego enjoys an abundance of sunshine and its many sandy beaches will allow you to soak up all that sun when you relax to sunbathe.

 

San Diego has one of the largest wooden buildings in the United States, the Hotel Del Coronado, which was built in 1888.  The hotel is situated just across the Bay on Coronado Island.

In 1900, two women had separately committed suicide in the hotel, each taking with them the life of an unborn child. Their ghosts still remain in two of the hotel rooms.

 

The ghosts of a little boy and girl have also been reported, as well as a hotel caretaker walking the dining room and a Victorian lady gliding across a dance floor. Stay here while you are in San Diego, if you dare!

 

Other major attractions for you to consider for your visit to San Diego are the city’s world famous Zoo and Wild Animal Park. Here you will be able to get close to many incredible animals.

 

And San Diego’s fabulous Sea World, with it’s under water tunnels and spectacular dolphin and whale acrobatic displays are definitely sights that you will not want to miss.

 

In the heart of San Diego is Balboa Park, where visitors have the choice of many quality museums to visit. The Museum of Man, San Diego’s Art Museum, the Aerospace Museum and the Natural History Museum.

 

San Diego’s nightlife is located in the Gaslamp Quarter, a 16 acre area with buildings and hotels built at the beginning of the 20th century. The Gaslamp Quarter has hundreds of small shops, tiny drinking taverns, restaurants and night clubs.

 

San Diego is where tourist’s dreams come true.

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