What to do contained by san francisco for 6-8 hours?
i am working in San Jose and plan on driving to san Francisco beforehand i fly back home (out of SF). I will own 6-8 hours on Thursday morning to look around san Francisco.
Can anyone suggest how to make use of my time contained by san Francisco. i would like to call round golden gate bridge and Oakland bridge. Is here anything else i can go for photography? whats a devout place to take photographs surrounded by SF?
Answers:
Take a wonderful trolly ride around the city and the do hold some winerys there too that might be fun. And the fisherman's wharf rocks!
Be sure and progress to Fisherman's Wharf. Great place to visit and great opportunity for photo taking.
For gosh sake, stay away from Fisherman's Wharf. It's become just a tourist mecca. You hold enough stores at home that supply tee-shirts and coffee mugs with your given name on them.
The Golden Gate bridge is really beautiful, a verbs you won't forget, especially on a crisp, clear day close to we have this time of year. There are special parking lots at both ends for viewing and taking pics of the bridge, despondently they're usually crowded. Just east of the southern end of the bridge is Fort Point, a Civil War era fort to be exact actually where on earth San Francisco began (the Spanish built a fort near in 1776!) From at hand you can get an incredible display of the bridge (from below) and get honest pictures.
The Bay Bridge (to Oakland) is harder to get a pious picture of, but it's an incredible work of engineering.
Chinatown is wonderful! Very picturesque. Lots of interesting shop selling everything from crappy junk to really superb art--scuplture, furniture, painting, etc. Many buildings built in a 'Chinese' style (but it turns out they be designed by American architects to -look- Chinese, and there is zilch like them surrounded by China). Some good restaurants in attendance, but most good Chinese restaurants are not within Chinatown.
The whole city is great for photography but if you lone have a few hours, shift to the new De Young Museum contained by Golden Gate Park. There is an observation tower near that had a great 360-degree picture. It is just above tree-top plane so it's a close, intimate view, not similar to the view from a mountaintop. You don't own to pay declaration of guilt to the museum, you can just amble through the lobby to the elevator to the tower. The museum itself, I mean the building, is also especially strange and wonderful (though I miss the -old- De Young, which was torn down because it wasn't earthquake locked.)
Coit Tower on Telegraph Hill also has some great view, but sadly the small parking lot in attendance is usually full. You can park at the bottom and climb up (exhausting but an interesting climb) or have someone drop you bad at the top and pick you up later. The tower have a nice view from the top and is also full of depression-era murals done by artists hired by the WPA.
At this time of year, you might want to drop by Union Square. It's usually packed near shoppers during the holidays. The window displays at Macy's, Saks, Bloomingdale's, and Barneys alone are probably as close as the West Coast get to the real Fifth Avenue. The city's formal Chistmas tree towers over the square itself.
Winter isn't the best time to visit Golden Gate Park, as here are no flowers yet. But irreversible attractions like the DeYoung Museum and Japanese Tea Garden are reliable stops. You can also check out the construction progress of San Francisco's unmarked Natural History Museum (opens Fall 2008).
The Palace of the Legion of Honor has excellent view, a beautiful golf course, coastal hiking trails, and a fine screening of European art. The comprehensive collection of Rodin sculptures are in particular noteworthy, and the cafe is surprisingly worthy. And if you walk along the cliff, the surroundings are spectacular. Highly recommended.
Because photography seem to be your thing, I'd bring in a bee-line for China Beach in the Richmond district of San Francisco. It offer some of the very best view of the Golden Gate Bridge, and on the way you'll endorse through Seacliff, which has dozens of gorgeous, photo-worthy homes.
When you're through next to China Beach, you're only a stone's throw from Land's End, which have still more breathtaking photographic opportunities, not to mention some great spots for hiking. There are various good restaurants near too, including one overlooking the ruins of the Sutro Baths -- so you won't go hungry!
Enjoy your (brief) time surrounded by SF!
Kango Traveler
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