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The capital of the West coast of the United States and high technology striking contrasts. San Francisco fondly call us Europe: tourists meet here charming Victorian houses with Bay Windows in the humid air, hear the cry of the Navy seals, and through the hilly streets down the old wooden cable car trams. "Around the world" invites you for a walk through the most expensive city in the US.
In San Francisco is an amazing micro-climate due to cold ocean currents, so almost any time of the year the temperature here does not drop below 10 degrees Celsius and never rises above 17 degrees in summer. And you should definitely bring a windbreaker for protection from the wind.
If you live near the famous Pier 39, you'll get free service: about five in the morning you will invariably Wake up alert seals. Visit them late morning with a Cup of coffee at the Marina can meet up to 600 weighty children.
For the curious, in the local "Morrison Planetarium" show amazing video about the Universe under the dome with a diameter of 22 meters, and the natural history Museum Kimball for glass living colony of South African penguins, which upon returning home you can continue to watch the Internet in real time via the installed in the pavilion of the camera.
Chocolate lovers will find in San Francisco just two of the Ghirardelli factory (Ghiradelli factory), opened in 1852 by an Italian immigrant, you can look at the production of the most famous chocolate on the coast, and another branch factory — cheesecake (Cheesecake Factory) — you can go crazy with air desserts with every conceivable fillings.
The famous Golden Gate bridge pierces the Gulf of the red arrow with a length of 1280 meters. Until 1964 he was considered the longest suspension bridge in the world (now that title belongs to the Akashi Kaikyo bridge connecting the Japanese Islands of Honshu and Shikoku, its length is 1991 meters). Take a walk on the pedestrian portion of the Golden Gate — it offers a magnificent view of the city, often wrapped in mist because of the humidity.
The trip by public transport in San Francisco becomes a real fun, especially if you jumped on the bandwagon wooden cable car-bus — a mixture of conventional tram funicular. Creaking tree, such trams bravely climb the almost vertical streets of the city. At the end of their route the old fashioned way, manually deploying on a special rotating platform.
Nature in California is incredibly rich. In search of solitude, hire a car and drive away for a day fee to Muir woods, which is 19 kilometers from the city. Growing many massive red Redwood rise sometimes more than 100 meters, and these trees live up to 1,200 years.
A trip to jail — doesn't sound like fun, isn't it? However in San Francisco it is. Hop on a ferry and go to the Alcatraz penitentiary, which is located in a wonderfully scenic island in the last thirty years a Museum.
The colorful streets of San Francisco- flowered Lombard street. It is located on the so-called Russian hill. The many twists and turns and the slope did Lombard street, the favorite place of tourists, armed with cameras and selfie-sticks.
Finally, look in Chinatown — that's about 200 thousand people, and at every corner many restaurants with authentic Oriental cuisine.
