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FLORIDA, USA
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Brochure images of tanning flesh and Mickey Mouse give an inaccurate and incomplete picture of FLORIDA . Although the aptly nicknamed “Sunshine State” is indeed devoted to the tourist trade, it’s also among the least-understood parts of the US. Away from its overexposed resorts lie forests and rivers, deserted strands filled with wildlife, vibrant cities and primeval swamps.
SEATTLE
300C FEATURE DESTINATION: Seattle, Washington
Curved around the shore of Elliott Bay, with Lake Washington behind and the snowy peak of Mount Rainier hovering faintly in the distance, SEATTLE has a magnificent setting. The insistently modern skyline of glass skyscrapers gleams across the bay, an emblem of three decades of aggressive urban renewal.
SAN FRANCISCO
300C FEATURE DESTINATION: San Francisco, California
SAN FRANCISCO proper occupies just 48 hilly square miles at the tip of a slender peninsula, almost perfectly centered along the California coast. Arguably the most beautiful, certainly the most liberal city in the US, it remains true to itself: a funky, individualistic, surprisingly small city whose people pride themselves on being the cultured counterparts to their cousins in LA the last bastion of civilization on the lunatic fringe of America. It’s a compact and approachable place, where downtown streets rise on impossible gradients to reveal stunning views of the city, the bay and beyond, and blanket fogs roll in unexpectedly to envelop the city in mist. This is not the California of mono-tonous blue skies and slothful warmth the temperatures rarely exceed the seventies, and even during summer can drop much lower.
HONOLULU
300C FEATURE DESTINATION: Honolulu, Hawaii
Until the Europeans came, HONOLULU was insignificant; soon so many foreign ships were frequenting its waters that it had become Kamehameha’s capital, and it remains the economic center of the island. The city covers a long (if narrow) strip of southern Oahu, but downtown is a manageable size, and a lot quieter than its glamorous image might suggest. The tourist hotels, and most of Honolulu’s hustle, are concentrated among the skyscrapers of very distinct WAIKIKI , a couple of miles east.
LAS VEGAS
300C FEATURE DESTINATION: Las Vegas, Nevada
Shimmering from the desert haze of Nevada like a latter-day El Dorado, Las Vegas is the most dynamic, spectacular city on earth. At the start of the twentieth century, it didn’t even exist; at the start of the twenty-first, it’s home to well over one million people, with enough newcomers arriving to need a new school every month.
ANCHORAGE
300C FEATURE DESTINATION: Anchorage, Alaska
Wedged between the two arms of Cook Inlet and the imposing Chugach Mountains, ANCHORAGE is home to over forty percent of Alaska’s population, and serves as the transportation center for the whole state. This sprawling city on the edge of one of the world’s great wildernesses often gets a bad press from those who live elsewhere in Alaska – derided as being “just half an hour from Alaska” – but it has its attractions, and with its beautiful setting can make a pleasant one- or two-day stopover.
MAUI
300C FEATURE DESTINATION: Maui, Hawaii
The island of MAUI , the second largest in the Hawaiian chain, is Oahu’s fastest-growing rival, attracting roughly a third of all visitors to the state. Some would say that things have gone too far. What were once remote, unspoiled beaches, around Kaanapali and Kihei for example, have been swamped by sprawling resorts, and Lahaina , once “whaling capital of the world,” is now little more than just another tourist trap.
SAN DIEGO
300C FEATURE DESTINATION: San Diego California
With its world-famous zoo and aquarium to its bountiful beaches, San Diego’s vibrant and exciting lifestyle has plenty to offer visitors and their whole families. It is the kind of city where every day is beach day, and where everyone is busy having as much fun as possible. A relaxed atmosphere permeates the city, probably one of the main reasons to draw more than 30 million visitors a year to San Diego. Given the beautiful weather, outdoor activities abound. San Diego is probably one of the most pedestrian friendly cities in America. Families walk, skate and bike their way over 70 miles of beaches or any one of San Diego’s abundant attractions.
PALM SPRINGS
300C FEATURE DESTINATION: Palm Springs, California
Palm Springs is a resort city in the Santa Rosa Mountains, just south of Interstate 10 at the foot of 10,000-foot Mt. San Jacinto on the westernmost edge of the Sonoran Desert. The city is named for the palm trees that line its streets and for its natural hot springs. These features along with a warm climate, fashionable hotels and private homes, golf courses, parks, and swimming pools, make Palm Springs a major, upscale tourist attraction.
ANAHEIM
300C FEATURE DESTINATION: Anaheim California
Anaheim, California is probably most famous as the home of Disneyland, the first Disney theme park, known around the world as “The Happiest Place on Earth”, but there is much more family fun to be found in and around this city in Orange County, California.