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San Diego is the third-biggest city in California, so there are way more than just the 7 attractions to visit. This list will stick to the downtown area and the Bay Front to the south of I-8 and west of I-15. Due to its length, it is probably friendlier to read using the "print mode" where the whole thing is seen in one page. 1. The San Diego Embarcadero is, as the name implies, the port of San Diego area where ship embarkation occurs. For lovers of all sailing vessels, this is one of the most fantastic floating garages on the coast. You can hang around the Embarcadero all day and see anything from the 5 stories cruise ships to the Navy frigates to the tuna seiners. You can start your day down from Harbor Island, one of the two manmade mini-peninsulas right across Harbor Drive from San Diego International Airport (Lindberg Field). It presents a sparkling view of Downtown skyline (and scantly clad joggers.... which can either be a blessing or an eye sore, depending on your luck). You can even take 1 to 2 hours cruise around the San Diego Bay on the Harbor Excursion from the Broadway Pier. Be sure to visit the San Diego Maritime Museum, which includes 3 very studly and stately looking ships berthing immediately to the north of Broadway Pier. The 'Star of India' (1863) is the oldest iron square-rigged sailing ship that's still afloat. She has traveled far and wide (from England to India to New Zealand to Puget Sound, etc) before settling down for her retirement here in America's Finest City. The 'Berkeley' is a luxury ferry boat, and the 'Medea' is a luxury steam yacht that had her priority straight and took time out from her grouse-hunting trips to serve during World Wars I & II. Capping off the southern tip of the Embarcadero is the famous Seaport Village, a lovely New England-style enclave of boutique shops and restaurants where you can spend the whole afternoon dining on anything from lobster to hot dogs and ice cream while listening to live music and fending off the invading pack of hungry pigeons and sea gulls (no, really Do guard your food from those flying bandits if you're eating out on the court-yard ). Across Harbor Drive from Seaport village is the Kansas City Barbeques restaurant, where the 'sleazy bar scene' from the film 'Top Gun' was shot. The food isn't all that good, but the interior with all the memorabilia is quite a sight to see. Some other cool places to visit within a walking distance is the Santa Fe Depot and the Museum of Modern Arts (in America's Plaza) at the corner of Broadway and Kettner. Links: - www.sdmaritime.com/ (San Diego Maritime Museum) - www.seaportvillage.com/visitors/ (Seaport Village) - www.family-vacation-getaways-at-los-angeles-theme-parks.com/San-Diego-Embarcadero.html (All about the San Diego Embarcadero) 2. Gaslamp Quarters is the cool place to hang in Downtown area.... especially in the evening. This is the areas bordering 4th and 5th Avenues from Harbor Drive to the south up to Broadway. These blocks of rejuvenated late 19th Century buildings feature brick sidewalks lined with old fashion gas lamps and many fine restaurants, bars, boutiques, and art studios. It's an interesting area to walk around. All the glittering and pricey shops and restaurants, and yet there is always a homeless or two roaming around or just sleeping out on the side walk. So if you aren't used to that, you might get startled when one of them starts shouting at no one in particular at the intersection. Usually they are quite harmless. I think most people would advise that you ignore them, I say... just pretend they're speaking to someone else in a foreign language that you don't understand. I think being treated as if they don't exist is a large part of how they got to be in such a state in the first place. Be sure to stop by at the psychedelic Horton Plaza on the NW border of the Quarter (bordered by Broadway, 4th Ave, G St, & 1st Ave). The main entrance to the complex is from Broadway and where E Street runs into 4th Avenue. There is another entrance from 1st Avenue on the west side. This rather fortress-like design was necessary because the area had serious crime problem back in the 80's. Since the redevelopment of this area and the opening of Petco Park, it is much safer to roam around well into the evening, however. Be sure to allow plenty of time when you visit, though. Horton Plaza can be quite a labyrinth for those who aren't familiar with its irregular design. The stairs aren't where one would expect them to be and chances are you will find yourself circling the whole floor a few times before finding out how to get to the floor you wanted to get to. There is an elevator at each end of the elongated plaza, and the door opens on opposite side of the car from one level to the next. The movie theater and the food court are on the 4th floor. William Heath Davis House (Est. 1851) is the oldest structure in Downtown San Diego. It is a New England style house that was shipped here from the East Coast by William Heath Davis, a real estate mogul who tried unsuccessfully to develop the San Diego bay front. The building got moved around a lot since then, but has now found a permanent location at the corner of 4th Ave and Island St.... just diagonally across the intersection from the famously haunted Horton Grand Hotel (and its adjacent Horton Grand Theater). Guided walking tour of the facility and the Gaslamp Quarter is offered almost daily from the Davis House. The Davis House has a very pleasant tree-covered court-yard with good view of the intersection of 4th and Island. A perfect place to park yourself on one of the wooden bench in the afternoon (possibly after having procured a big cup of gelato from 'Gelatoria Frissante' right across Island St, or a big and juicy kabob sandwich from 'Sultans Shawarma' on 4th, just a few doors away), and have a good time people watching. Another big attraction at the border of Gaslamp Quarter and the Marina District is, of course, the beautiful sail building of the San Diego Convention Center (right on the Orange Trolley line). It is a great facility to house major conventions, trade shows, and other event such as the annual ComicCon, and the 1996 Republican National Convention (the candidate selected was Bob Dole). If you venture into East Village area to the east, aside from visiting Petco Park (home of the San Diego Padres baseball team) be sure to stop by at Villa Montezuma at 20th and K. This 1887 house was the home of the pianist/author Jesse Shepard, and it features some of the best Lincrusta Walton ceilings on the West Coast. Like Davis House, it houses a museum and offers daily guided tours. Links: - www.gaslampquarter.org/history/map.php (Map of Gaslamp Quarter) - www.gaslampquarter.org/history/thehouse.php (William Heath Davis house) - www.sandiegohistory.org/mainpages/locate5.htm (Villa Montezuma) - www.sdccc.org/ (San Diego Convention Center) 3. The Opera, The Ballet, The Symphony, and the Broadway Houses are all conveniently located within a few blocks of each other on or just north of Broadway Blvd. The Symphony is quite well disciplined these days under the direction of Maestro Jahja Ling, and there's always something on the schedule either at Copeley Symphony Hall or in La Jolla. The San Diego Opera and the San Diego City Ballet both perform at the San Diego Civic Theater in the Civic Concourse, 4 blocks to the west of Copeley Hall on B Street & 3rd. The City Ballet also gives performances at the Lyceum underground theater in Horton Plaza (entrance from Broadway Circle). The Opera's season is only 4 months long (5 opera per year), but the company's chief Ian Campbell really has a knack for attracting A-listers and future stars. Next season (2008) will feature big names like Petra Lang (in Tannhäuser), Angela Gilbert (in Maria Stuarda), Richard Leech and Jose Cura (in Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci), Indra Thomas (in Aida), & Charles Castronovo and Ekaterina Siurina (in The Pearl Fishers). Unless you are going to the premiere and sitting in the pricey Orchestra Level, you wouldn't even feel out of place to attend the opera, ballet, or symphony in casual sleeved-shirt and jean. After all, we easy-going San Diegans go to the show to watch the performers and not other chair-filling audience, you know. But if broadway is your cup of tea, don't neglect to check out what's playing at Spreckle Theater on Broadway (between 1st and 2nd Avenues). Just a block west of Horton Plaza Links: - www.sdopera.com/ (San Diego Opera) - www.broadwaysd.com/faq.php (Broadway San Diego) - www.sandiegosymphony.com/index.php (San Diego Symphony) - www.cityballet.org/ (San Diego City Ballet) 4. Old Town and Presidio Park are perched on top of Presidio Hill overlooking the San Diego River and Mission Valley (I-8). The Presidio is the first European outpost in California. Gaspar de Portola and Padre Junipero Serra established the fort and a mission in 1769. Parts of its ruin is preserved and watched over by the Junipero Serra Museum (the home of the San Diego Historical Society) nearby. Down the hill from the Presidio is Old Town San Diego, composing of rustic blocks of adobe buildings. The main streets are San Diego Avenue and Juan Street, which teem with authentic Mexican and California-fusion restaurants, antique dealers, and other souvenirs shops. The Old Town State Park Service offers a guided walking tour every afternoon from the Casa de Machado-Silvas. At the corner of San Diego Ave and Harney St is the Whaley House, built by Thomas Whaley in 1856, it was the first brick house in Old Town. Yet another good stop for ghost hunters and folks who like to get nostalgic about 'the good old days'.... before flushing toilet and the Internet.... (though I think they already had sliced bread back in the mid 19th Century). Links: - www.sandiego.gov/park-and-recreation/parks/presidio/index.shtml (Map of Presidio Park) - www.sandiegohistory.org/mainpages/locate4.htm (Junipero Serra Museum) - www.oldtownsandiegoguide.com/attractions.html (A guide to Old Town San Diego) 5. Balboa Park is 1400 acres of lush hills and fields that house the San Diego Zoo, museums, an outdoor organ pavilion, a botanical garden, many recreation areas, and 2 golf courses. The many beautiful Spanish Colonial buildings along the main thorough fair, the El Prado, were built either for the 1915 Panama-California Exposition or the 1935 California-Pacific International Exposition. One of them, the Museum of Man, will be hosting the Dead Sea Scrolls from 15 October -31 December 2007. The biggest attraction here is, of course, the San Diego Zoo. One of the biggest and most visited zoos on the planet, housing anything from insects to giant pandas and elephants.... and even San Diegan zookeepers! Many of the species are kept in outdoor areas separated by moats and low walls rather than in cages. If you are pressed for time, you can take one of those 45 minutes long guided bus tours. The fabulous sea lion show at the Wegeforth Bowl is not to be missed, too. It can cost you an arm and a leg (and probably a belly-button as well) to an entrance fee to each of the museums of Balboa Park separately. I recommend setting aside a whole day for visiting and save a lot of bucks by buying the Passport to Balboa Park. Some of the wonderful museums here would take a whole day to explore all by itself (not the least of which is the Ruben H Fleet Aero-Space Museum with its IMAX theater. Some other cool attractions include the Spanish Village Art Center, The Lily Pond, Tikkum Museum of Arts, The Old Globe Theater (which is the exact replica of Shakespeare's in Stratford), The California Tower at the Museum of Man with its 100 bell carillon puts on quite a chiming show at noon. And there are plenty of trails and picnic areas for those seeking escape from the concrete forest of Downtown to go wild on. Link: - www.balboapark.org/ (Balboa Park.... do go for the Passport to Balboa Park. It's a great deal ) 6. Take a ferry to Coronado Island.... which really isn't an island at all but the peninsula forms the south and west side of the San Diego Bay (hey, if you are as distracted by our good vistas and climate as we are, you'd mistake a peninsula for an island, too!). You can also drive to it via the sleek and very blue Coronado Bridge. The toll booths aren't operational now (the bridge is paid for), so don't panic if you don't have $2 handy when you come to them. The island houses the North Island Naval Air Station (the country's oldest of its kind), and a pricey little resort town of Coronado with its English-style mansions and the very fabulously red-roofed Hotel Del Coronado (1887). This is the biggest wooden structure on the West Coast and staying overnight there can really clean out your bank account (being visited by one of the resident ghosts or not), but there is no shame in treating oneself to a reasonable breakfast at the marvelous Crown room instead. The hotel offers guided tour every Saturday afternoon, and is located right on the very sandy Coronado City Beach (my pals love building sand castles on it, but I'm mostly there to look out for landing Navy jets... among a few other sights worth seeing on the beach). Extending to the south is the equally fine Silver Strands State Beach... right by the Navy Amphibious Base, so.... be a good environmentalist and take care not to disturb the SEALs Links: - www.sdhe.com/san-diego-bay-ferry.html (San Diego Bay Ferry) - www.entersandiego.com/Coronado.cfm (Coronado Island attractions) - www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=654 (Silver Strands State Beach) - www.hoteldel.com/about/history.cfm (Hotel Del Coronado) 7. Point Loma and Cabrillo National Monument. Point Loma is a hilly ex-natural island that is now a southward jutting peninsula that insulates the San Diego harbor from the Pacific Ocean. The Cabrillo national Monument (named for the Spanish explorer Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, the first European to enter the San Diego Bay in 1542) is located on the top of the southern tip of the Pt Loma Promontory. It offers a spectacular view of the Downtown waterfront and the harbor (when it isn't foggy, that is. Your best bet is to be there in the afternoon, after the 'marine layer' has burned off), a wonderful museum, visitor center, and a gift shop. It also houses 2 lighthouses. The Old Lighthouse (built in 1854) is 462 ft above sea level, which proved to be more help to sea gulls than to sailors, so in 1801, the 'New' Lighthouse was built further down the hill where its is still in operation today. A bit beyond the New Lighthouse is the Whale-Watching Lookout, where the migrating California gray whales like to show off their whaley physiques to goggling humans during the month of December to February (believe me, watching a bunch of fat whales swimming in the ocean is oddly a lot more fun than watching my fat relatives doing the same thing... For one thing, I don't have to worry about having to jump in to rescue the whales from drowning). Also on Pt Loma are Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery (the final resting place of our soldiers since 1882) and the beautiful (though shrinking) Rosecroft Begonia Gardens at the corner of Rosecroft Ln and Silvergate Ave. If you enjoy a good evening stroll/cycling, the soft sandstone of Sunset Cliffs is a good place to be in the late afternoon, where you can imagine yourself in a scene from the film 'Top Gun', when Maverick goes to see the instructor about his graduation. There is an access to the water's edge via the steps down from Ladera St. And if you just feeling like sitting around admiring a garden in peace, try the Lauren Memorial Garden at the corner of Golden Park and Lucinda. Links: - www.nps.gov/archive/cabr/home.html (Cabrillo National Monument) - www.cem.va.gov/CEM/cems/nchp/ftrosecrans.asp (Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery) - www.a-zsandiegobeaches.com/sunsetcliffs.htm (Sunset Cliffs Beach) There are much more to see in and around San Diego, California, of course (please note that I haven't even said anything about the surfers, beach babes, and the life-guards yet). This town is a spectacular place to visit year round with many attractions to see within 30 minutes drive of each other. Hopefully this list will give just you a head start on what to do if you ever find yourself in the area. There is much left to be explored yet. Those who wouldn't mind getting some really good discount while visiting here, be sure to check out the 'Go San Diego Card'. Believe me, this beautiful town feels even more beautiful when you don't have to pay full ticket price for things.... www.gosandiegocard.com/sandiego-attractions.html |
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