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California is too large to be fully
explored in a single trip, but in an area so varied it's hard to pick out
specific highlights. Los Angeles is far and away the biggest and most
stimulating city: a maddening collection of freeways, beaches, seedy
suburbs, upscale neighborhoods and extreme lifestyles. From
Los Angeles you can head south to
the growing metropolis of
San Diego, with its broad,
welcoming beaches and easy access to Mexico; or push inland to the desert
areas, most notably Death Valley, a barren and inhospitable landscape of
volcanic craters and salt pans that in summer becomes the hottest place on
earth.
Most people, though, follow the shoreline
north up the central coast : a gorgeous run that takes in lively small
towns like
Santa Barbara and
Santa Cruz. California's second
city,
San Francisco, at the top end, is
about as different from LA as it's possible to get: the oldest, most
European-styled city in the state, set on a series of steep hills, its
wooden houses tumbling down to water on three sides. It is also well
placed for the national parks to the east, such as
Yosemite, where
waterfalls cascade into a sheer glacial valley, and
Sequoia & Kings Canyon
National Park with its gigantic trees, as well as the ghost towns of
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California Attractions |
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San Francisco
Museum Modern Art |
Magic Mountain,
Los Angeles |
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Fisherman's
Wharf, San Francisco |
San Diego Zoo |
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Disneyland,
Anaheim |
Mission Bay Park,
San Diego |
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of Art |
Natural History
Museum of Los Angeles |
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Ruben H Fleet
Space Science Center |
Sausalito,
San Francisco |
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Balboa Park,
San Diego |
Sequoia & Kings Canyon
National Park |
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Universal Studios,
Los Angeles |
Palace of Fine
Arts, San Francisco |
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Ghirardelli Square,
San Francisco |
Scripps Aquarium, San
Diego |
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Hollywood Wax
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