Japanese garden of San Francisco or Japanese Tea Garden

The Garden of Japanese tea of San Francisco (Japanese Tea Garden), the United States, in one of the enclaves after Golden Gate Park stands out of. It was constructed like part of the Universal exhibition of 1894. This Japanese garden is the most ancient public garden of the whole United States (source wikipedia). It is replete with ponds, bridges, and as a typical house could not be missing for his name of you Japanese.

The Bridge of San Francisco (Golden Gate) or the Jail of Gannet are unavoidable visits in San Francisco, but as we mention already in case of the Garden of Majorelle de Marrakech, when enough time is had in visiting them to a city, this type of gardens deserves to be visited, since they will represent a few hours of calmness in half of habitual whirlpool tourist that we all suffer on having visited a new city, and more if it is a city full of caprices and corners as it is the case of San Francisco.

The Garden of You Japanese of San Francisco originally the park was going to be a storm, but as it usually happens with the "temporary" things almost one century and a half has happened and there it continues. Thanks to a Japanese immigrant gardener, Makoto Hagiwara, who suggested the idea of turning it into perm.

Certain polemic exists concerning the Cookies of the Fortune and if they were original of the house of you of the Japanese garden of San Francisco, but it seems that they are original of Japan.

Linkage:

Japanese Firelighter Garden (wikipedia, English)

Japanese Firelighter Garden Official Web San Francisco (English)

University of California, San Francisco (bibliography)

Only in San Francisco (official web of tourism of San Francisco)

Other points of interest of our trip in the coast West, California:

San Francisco, travel coast west the United States
Death Valley, trip Coast West
Giant Sequoias and National parks in the USA
National park of Yosemite, California
The vineyards of Falcon Crest, California
Road trip, trip to Coast West of the USA
Street Lombard Street, San Francisco (The street with more curves of the world …)

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Wedding in the Caribbean Sea, beach Bavarian

Wedding in the Caribbean Sea … and: why not? It turns out to be quite strange to the Spanish, but in many other countries it is an option that they take much into consideration, especially the north American, that they even marry in Las Vegas …

In our past trip to White Top, Dominican Republic, we could see and photograph one. Here we put the photos, but we omit the fiancés for courteousness, although it is necessary to say that they were American and I do not believe that they see the post. We take the photos in the hotel Iberostar Bávaro Grand Hotel ***** in beach Bavarian.

It is necessary to recognize that the best of a wedding in the Caribbean Sea. the fact is that after ending already you are of! Honeymoon! in the beaches of the Caribbean Sea. The hammock will be waiting for you …

Is romantic to marry in a tropical island? On tastes color, but what is sure a real headache to take the guests. On the other hand, as you finish the wedding there starts the honeymoon full of activities of diving, yachting, baths of the sun in the beach, and crowned then with an animated night life and a hotel de luxe, skylight that the guests, including the mothers-in-law, can decide to remain also …

Related trips:

The Carib in Mexico, pasaporteblog.com

Dominican Republic in our trips blog.

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To visit Valencia in the bloggers Event, Nomaders

A few weeks ago Alfredo Rivela de Nomaders invited me to an event for bloggers in Madrid but as it was between week I could not help. When there came the proposal to go following event, in Valencia, I could not say that not. In what was it consisting of event? In joining bloggeros of the whole Spain (some of them come with his cars in Valencia but others take trains or even planes), to know a little the city and in many cases to become expensive, because although Internet is a fantastic way to have the possibility of being known and of sharing this experience face to face is even better.

The day I have started with a visit on foot guided of the historical center of Valencia. On the Central Market a citrus fruits tasting was realized (Clementine, Clemenules, Navel, lemon Primofiori and Grapefruit, etc.) and to eat a Show cooking and I have lunch in Food and Fun, a new concept of restaurant and kitchen school along with the square of the Town hall.

Here it is where I joined the group. The plate that they were going to do to us was a paella what I do not get enthusiastic very much because as Valencian I usually do paellas and they must not be badly because my friends usually leave that it is me who is the one that cooks. But I had the first pleasant surprise of the day. In addition to knowing the suitable ingredients, the secret of the paella consists in being right with the quantity of broth, rice and playing with the fire so that the rice stays in his point. In the school they allowed us to prepare it to fry the meat, the vegetables … but when the complicated part came, the cooks of the school discreetly replaced us, for what instead of being dependent on the paella we could converse simply between us and do a small lunch with esgarraet. This way they obtain the educational part of the school and a good final score, with what the duality school - restaurant is reached with enough success. We all did paellas but as he corroborates Rafa Osuna in his blog our paella was with difference the best (Rafa Osuna, Munyoki, his wife and I).

Later there came the second agreeable surprise of the day, we went to visit the City of the Arts and the Sciences, in particular the Oceanográfico of Valencia and the pleasant surprise was that instead of doing the normal visit, we did a technical visit, an innovation that they have included in the catalog of the Oceanogràfic.

Technical visit to the Museum Oceanográfico of Valencia: It consisted of knowing the back room of the Oceanográfic. We enter the part of maintenance, we saw as they take care to the animals, the water filters across sand and ozone, the vats of transport of the fish and mammals, the area of quarantine, where they have the animal newly arrived persons or that it falls ill. The veterinary area where we could see even the radiography of a penguin and could walk over the swimming pool of 7 million liters of water where the only thing that bull was separating us from the sharks a small footbridge was and what in that memento it was looking like a minuscule rail.

The company was also fantastic, in addition to the experts paelleros already said (Rafa Osuna, Annoyed and Xavier Muñoz Munyoki, accompanied us Joan Carballo of blog.engeneral.net, Miguel Nonay Asaltodemata.com Eugenia Castroseiros Recorrerelmundo.com Robert and Jumi paelladekimchi.com

I want to be useful to be grateful to Nomaders and to Tourism for Valencia the initiative: Laura Farinelli and Alfredo Rivela of nomaders.com/blog and Amaya Raez turisvalencia.es

But with this I do not say goodbye, because Jose Ferri, valenciaguias.com our guide put a video to us in youtube that I have found and want to share. It shows the city of Valencia and it seemed to me that it is frankly well.

Incredible but True Valencia in YOUTUBE

Finally I do not forget Pau G Solbes Pau G Solbes elpachinko.com, Fernando Serer blogestudio.com and Guillermo Carvajal labrujulaverde.com who although they did not come tried it.

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Zebras fighting to be the domineering male, Botswana

Zebras struggle, safari photographic Delta of the Okawango, Botswana. The zebra is one of the animals most typical of Africa, she stands out for his for his streaky hair. In the exterior rim of the Reservation of Moremi we saw a spectacular zebras struggle, two males fighting for the supremacy. When we decide to sleep in the exterior rim of the park of Moremi we think that we would have to wait on the following day to be able to see something interesting but a few hours later we discover pleasantly our error. The rim of the reservation (Moremi Game Reserve) is a human delimitation, but the animals are equally to one and another shore of the river Kwai in the delta of the Okawango. The day in the exterior rim we saw finally lions, zebras, hippopotami, elephants, antelopes of diverse classes, eagles and I am going to stop for not doing the eternal post.

Behavior: The zebras move in familiar groups of between 4 and 6 animals formed by a stud, mares and his colts. Although it is common to observe major groups only they remain together in short periods of time and the households preserve his integrity. The males who fight against more force to preserve or to win it obtains more females. The studs that do not possess matching units join in groups of bachelors or walk alone. They are mixed usually with other groups of species, like the gnu, the topi and the gazelles. There are sedentary groups and others realize seasonal migrations. In Botswana it is common to see migrations of big groups.

The zebras that we could see in the delta of the okawango, in the route there laughed lost sound zebras of burchel. The burchel zebra has a length of between 2.3 and 3 meters, a 43-56 cm tail, a height in the 1.3 meters cross and a weight between 290 and 300 kg.

Distribution: The zebra is the most widespread and abundant équido of all those who live in Africa. 5 recognized subspecies exists, although we have found some sources who affirm that there are 7. They are distributed extensively by the East and and south of Africa, with concentrations that overcome the half million and centred in Kenya and Tanzania. The preserves of fighter and the preserves deprived of Namibia, Zimbabwe and South Africa also assemble important number. For subspecies Grant's zebra appears by any East of Africa and the peninsula of Somalia, that of the top Zambeze in Zaire, Angola and the west of Zambia; the Crwhayi zebra appears in the north of Mozambique, Malawi and the East of Zambia, the Chapman zebra in the south of Mozambique and that of Damara in Namibia and Sudáfirca.

The entire population is about 700.000 copies although it is diminishing for the hunting both for his meat and for his attractive skin. They live in the arboreal and herbaceous savanna from the sea level up to 4.000 meters of altitude. His major predators are the lions, the hyenas and the wild dogs.

Zebra or Zebra? As to the Spanish Royal Academy the zebra is an animal solípedo of the southern Africa, seemed to the donkey, of yellowish white hair, with brown or black transverse lists. There are several species, and some of the size of the horse. The noun zebra also is correct but it is in desuetude. Nevertheless in the searches in Spain of last 12 months the word zebra to overcome zebra. So the decision stays to taste of the consumer.

Wikipedia curiosity: The word “zebra“ does not represent a reality from the evolutionary point of view, but it groups artificially three species according to a character (the streaky overcoat) that is not derived, but primitive. The streaks appear also in major or minor measurement in the paws and loin of the donkeys and wild horses, and they are evident more hard in the hybrids like the mules, although between the ancestors there should be no zebra of for way, demonstrating that the presence of streaks is an ancient character inside the genre Equus (zebras, horses and donkeys) and not one proper derivative of a sub-group inside this one.

Recommended linkage:

Extreme white-water rafting between Zambia and Zimbawe (The video is spectacular although of having known that the white-water rafting was so a beast we would not have done it)

Zebra, wikipedia

Delta of the Okawango, recorrerelelmundo.es

Delta of the Okawango, the river that does not come to the sea. viajeaafrica.com

Photos I Go on from Zebra in Pompeii, pasaporteblog.com

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Alepo (Aleppo) the most ancient city of the world, Syria

Alepo (Aleppo), in Arab Halab or in Turk Halep is the second city of Syria after Damascus and according to some sources the most ancient city of the world inhabited permanently. It is a city of Syrian tourism and Moslem tourism, but as it happens in general in Syria it is still beginning being opened for the western tourism. It is in the north of Syria, to half I walk in the highway that joins the Euphrat with the Mediterranean Sea.

Perhaps it is not the most ancient city of the world, although his inhabitants like that affirm it. What is sure that it is a question of the cities permanently inhabited more ancient than the world and for it it is no wonder that his streets, zocos and monuments breathe history for every pore.

The first historical reference that has of Alepo byline of 1.780 B.C. capital of the kingdom of Yamhad, a confederacy of cities and villages joined by the common interests tied to the control of the commercial routes between the peninsula of Anatolia, Mesopotamia and the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Later it came across of the Hititas, about 1.600 B.C., after the Hurritas, the Egyptians and once again of the Hititas. Invasions that Byzantine and Moslem ones continued for the Macedonians, Roman, between others.

At the end of the post I leave a pair of linkage to you on the history of Aleppo and his conquerors, because it might spend pages and pages to me explaining it. Not in vain there is the most ancient inhabited city of the world or less of Occident. What is sure is that if the ancient city of Palmira is the most outstanding archaeological part of Syria, Alepo is undoubtedly the city to know the current form of life in Syria, it is also the most industrialized city of the country.

One of the things that attracted attention of us is the quantity of Syrian tourists and in general of the Moslem world that we could see for the city, in contrast with the western few ones. You can see in the photo that was not rare to see women with burka doing tourism and photos with the mobile in the interest points like the Citadel.

In the following photo you can see one of the numerous zocos of the Medina. In the center of the city there is a labyrinthine complex of zocos silverware that are one of the big tourist attractions of the city of Alepo. From our trips blog we recommend these zocos to do the buys, since they are much better and more authentic than those of Damascus.

Since we have commented on Alepo it is the most industrialized city of Syria and when we see it from above there does not stop being curious the miscellany of minarets and of satellite dishes that pack the roofs and roofs of the city.

Photo of the satellite dishes in the roofs of the city of Alepo, Arab Republic of Syria.

The Big Mosque of Aleppo was erected in 1214 and one of his characteristics it is his square minaret, which we can see in the following photo. It is possible to begin to visit and to photograph, but it is necessary to remember that the man they must take long pants and the women will have to go covered and with veil. Nevertheless in the different earnings of the big mosque it is possible to take given veils to be adapted to the clothing. Since we always recommend the maximum respect for the persons who realize the cult in the mosque.

The citizens of Syria. In our trip to Syria and Jordan we could notice an important difference and we must emphasize it kind that were the Syrians with us. It is necessary to remember that his customs and beliefs are different from our own ones and be shared or it is not necessary to respect them. But in general the Syrians accept the differences and when you comment on some "incorrectness" indicate it to you with a smile.

In the top photo we can see a loom een the Zoco of the Craftsmen of Alepo, and next we can see a video of the loom in functioning.

The City Antigua of Alepo was declared a Patrimony of the Humanity by the UNESCO in 1986. His principal monuments are L to Big Mosque, the doting mother Halawiyé, that it occupies the emplacement of the ancient cathedral of Saint Helena, the citadel constructed in the XIIIth century on a hill partly artificial that one lifts 50 meters on the city, the zocos, the caravasares, the castle of Aleppo placed in the meridian of the city and the bath Yalgamma one of the most ancient Turkish SPA who impresses for his art arabesque of the ancient epoch.

History Connect:

Alepo the pearl of Syria

Alepo wikipedia

Related Arículos:

The putting sun in Palmeria, spectacular photos.

Petra's city, Jordan

Jordan Blog of trips.

Jerash, Gerasa the ancient blunt one in Jordan

The Weather vane: mosque or Cathedral?

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The square of the Virgin, Valencia. Water drops in the source of the Court of the Waters

The Square of the Virgin, placed in the heart of Valencia is one of the historical modality of the city. In the Square of the Virgin we can find the Door of the Apóstole s of the Cathedral of Valencia. In The Door of the Apostles of the Cathedral of Valencia they meet every Thursday the 12.00 for more than thousand years the Court of the Waters. This court is the most ancient current juridical institution of Europe, and probably also the most ancient of the world.

The court of the waters has competitions on the conflicts that arise concerning the use of the waters for the irrigation, realizes oral, public judgment, passes immediate judgment and it is not appealable.

In honor he constructed the Court of the Waters the Source of the Court of the Waters. The source has oval form in whose center appears a man's figure semirrecostado that it represents to the river Turia. The bearded man is surrounded with pedestals in which eight girls or naked adolescents appear with the ornamental comb and hairstyle of Valencian cultivator, each of them with a pitcher from which there comes the water, and that in turn eight ditches of the Turia represent.

The ditches belong to Benager i Faitanar, to Rovella, to Favara, to Quart, to Tormos, sde Rascanya, of Mislata, and to Mestalla. The source is a work of sculptor Manuel Silvestre Montesinos “Silvestre de Edeta“, realized the figures in bronze while the rest is of stone. It was inaugurated in 1976. In the top photo we can see the water drops in the source of the Court of the Waters.

The source of the Court of the Waters is placed in the center of the Square of the Virgin and surrounded by some of the monuments most emphasized from the city like the Palace of the Valencian Generality, the Basilica of the Virgin of the Helpless ones and the Cathedral of Valencia. In the Square of the Virgin or Plaça de la Mare of Deu, in flaws, of every year realizes the traditional flowers gift.

References

Valencian culture

Sources of Valencia

Gift of Flowers, Norms and recommendations.

Calendar of the gift of flowers 2010

What to see in Valencia?

The nit of the foc, pasaporteblog.com

Oceanográfico of Valencia, pasaporteblog.com

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To sleep in the hotel of Pretty Woman with a reasonable price

Is it possible to sleep in the hotel of Pretty Woman at an accessible price? In our trips blog we you go to tell how to do it. When we think about the hotel of of to movie of Pretty Woman to all there comes to us the Hotel Beverly Wilshire Beverly Hills (9500 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, California), the fantastic hotel placed at the beginning of Detour Drive in Los Angeles. But also we can sleep in the apartment that Julia Robers was sharing in the movie.

In our trip for the coast west we discover that there everything is decorated and atrezo. With a little of organization and information we also can be part of the movies and with a very cheap price. How? The hotel that was simulating the apartment of Pretty Woman has a much more accessible price in which if we will be able to sleep it is which be our budget. The hotel is Las Palmas Hotel, 1738 Las Palmas Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles.

Do you remember the end of Pretty Woman? When Richard Gere goes so far as like prince in his white horse (limousine) sword in hand (umbrella) to rescue his princess of the tower of the castle (balcony of the apartment). Since this balcony is not different that the hotel Las Palmas, placed to a few meters of Hollywood Boulevard, the street of the stars of Hollywood. In these photos you can see the hotel.

The small photo of the Hotel Las Palmas is not of pasaporteblog.com, it is an apprehension of screen of Google Street View, here I leave the linkage to you so that you could place the Hotel.

It is very curious to see like this detached house that in the movie is supposed is in a marginal area of Los Angeles is placed really to few meters of the walk of the stars. The truth in the studies of Hollywood they are not complicated very much looking for locations. To a few apples of Hollywood Boulevard we can go on from the apartment of Pretty Woman to the training camp of the institute where John Travolta tries to do the tests of athletics of Greese or to the beaches of Observers of the Beach to a few kilometers.

Here I leave a linkage to you (in English) of a web that shows others l ocalizaciones of the movie Pretty Woman, it is quite interesting.

Curiosity: The scene of the movie in which Richard Gere delivers to Julia Robers a box with a necklace so that it shows it in the dinner of this night, and Richard closes it suddenly and Julia begins laughing it was not in the script. This scene was an improvisation of actor that the director liked and stopped in the movie.

Details of the hotels and more things to be seen in the trip for the Coast West of the United States:

We can try to do a reservation in the Hotel of Pretty Woman of Detour Drive. When we do the reservations with advance sometimes we surprise the hotels and they are not so expensive as we could wait. Anyway I would not have confidence in it great, but for trying it …

Four Seasons Hotel Beverly Wilshire Beverly Hills

Hotel Beverly Wilshire Beverly Hills,

9500 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills,

California, U.S.A., 90212,

Tel.1 (310) 275-5200

http://www.fourseasons.com/beverlywilshire/

Las Palmas Hotel

1738 Las Palmas Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles

I am afraid that I have not found web official of the hotel, so you will have to use any hotels searcher to do the reservation. I have proved even with the semantic searcher hakia but I have not found it.

Two songs of Pretty Woman that have gone down in history:

Oh, Pretty Woman – Roy Orbison (1964)

It Must Have Been Love, Roxette

We can see in Google maps the Hotel Las Palmas and you will see it incredibly close that is of Kodak Theatry, where the delivery of the Oscars is realized.

To see bigger map

California and coast west the United States:

Travel Coast West in our trips blog

San Francisco, California
Las Vegas, city of the game
Road trip, rent of car, advices for cars rent in the United States
Santa Monica and Venice Beach, the beaches of Los Angeles
Death Valley, desert of Nevada
Giant Sequoias in the big parks.
Yosemite National Park
Statue of the Freedom, New York

What to see in San Francisco? The Garden of You Japanese and The house of Necessary Parents San Francisco

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