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Overall a very comfortable and enjoyable trip
The effort from the tour guide to keep us informed and entertianed made the tour more lively and informative. Otherwise in any city tour,what you generally see are monuments, statues, memorials, museums and sometimes few gardens and harbour cruises. These things seem to be common to any of the US city tours. But knowi..ng about the associated history and people makes it more memorable, than just watching the beauty of those buildings and admiring the size of the monuments.
Philadephia happened to be a short visit, where we had a glance at the Independence Hall and the Liberty bell. But were lucky to see a live parade of soldiers dressed in attire resembling the 17th century American freedom soldiers. There was a address by Benjamin Franklin (this guy dressed as Benjamin Franklin made us feel as if we are back in time and looking at the great man in flesh) on this occasion. He is one of the prominent historical figures in US and have invented the lightning rod, the glass harmonica, the Franklin stove and bifocal glasses. The US dollar 100 bills carries his image on them. He is the one, who took first steps in abolishing slavery from America.
The Air and space museum depicts the history of mans ambition to fly higher ans higher and you can see the first plane used by right brothers to space shuttles and supersonic jets and rockets eveything under one roof. But you know guyz, it just really get boring after a while, common I am here to see Washington DC, the streets and the gardens and the people. For one to actaully know all about these planes and war machines take out a day and you will get lost in those great technical wonders. Thankfully our visit was quite short and we were again on our bus in an hour's time.
Jefferson memorial was again a very asthetically beautiful monument, with a tall statue of Jefferson and the inscriptions of "the declaration of Independence" on four side of the wall. He was the principle author of the "The declaration of Independence". Jefferson memorial has a Washington Monument on one side and a beautiful lake on the opposite side and the view from top is really soothing to the eyes. We wished we could go on top of the washington monument and have a look at the city from the top, but that wasn't possible due to time constraints.
The Linoln memorial is face to face with the washington monument separated by a stretch of water fountains. The monuments looks really beautiful during night due to its illumination. You can see a beautful landscape and shoreline of the potomac river, behind this memorial. The staue took me back in time and just rememebred few words from his famous letter, he wrote to his son's teacher. We were made to read this letter in class 8th by one of our teachers and actually made an important mark on our minds, at that age. The War Memorials like Korean war memorial makes you feel introvert about the irony of this world and you salute those statues, who gave up their lives fighting for the motherland.
Virginia seems to be famous for its caverns and it has two beautiful caverns the lurey caverns and the shenandoah caverns. In this trip we visited shenandoah caverns. Cavern is nothing but a cave like structure below ground, where you can see beautiful formations of lime stones, sulpher, water and other natural elements. They are technically called as STALAGMITES and STALACTITES. They grow from the ceiling as water runs down inside them and deposits rings of calcite at their tips. The reflections of these structures in the rainbow lake were astonishing and it was worth a watch.
Baltimore has its own elegance and seems to be a oldest harbour in US and one of the tourist attarctions in Maryland. We got a chance to look at America's first Nuclear Ship and the view from our cruise ship was so panoramic. The harbourside villas, the parked boats, the old Domino's sugar factory,the fire guard boats, few sailboats gliding lazily in the harbour, all this gives you a feeling of tranquility and you start inhaling and enjoying the fresh air of chesapeak bay, allowing yourself to relax and capture the beauty of the shoreline. On a nearby hillside is a starshaped brick fort, above which a huge 18th-century American flag proudly flies.Fort McHenry is the birthplace of the American national anthem. The valiant defense of the fort and the harbor by American forces during the War of 1812 inspired Francis Scott Key to write "The Star Spangled Banner."
So overall a very comfortable and enjoyable trip for me and would recomment the shenendoah caverns for all of you, if you havn't seen any before. Read full review
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Different world
Took this tour as my first time out of the USA. I know it's only Canada, but very different for me. I loved it. Montreal is a beautiful mix of natural scenery and amazing architechture. The tour itself was great but wished I could have stayed longer. |
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My favourite city
Best side trip I've ever taken. Perfect one day tour that I enjoyed immensely. My first time in Boston and I was pleasantly surprised. I learned so much about the deep history of this city and the role it played in building what is now the United States of America. Saw a good deal of the city and I plan to go back. .. Read full review
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9 day tour
These tours are contracted to some tour operators.
Given below are the pros and cons of the trip.
Pros: You will be able to visit the key places in this trip.
Great value for money.
Cons: You can have chinese food for many opportunities(not sure if this in good/bad side). I do not recommend buy show ticket..s through the tour guides. It would be better and cheaper if you can do the booking all by yourself before you start on the trip but you want to confirm with Tours4Fun about the exact date in Las Vegas (apparently it is not a fixed date for everyone.) Hotels are sometime boring - If you are a couple you will end up getting double occupancy. Ensure you speak to them before you book the tickets Some of the hotels give you \"smoking\" rooms - difficult for \"Non-Smokers\" Hoover Dam is Just \"Hi & Bye Hoover Dam\" - Don\'t get to spend more than 15 min. It may be a good photo point. There were other viewpoints better for photo stop. Yosemite was a little waste as we spent a full day in travel to spend 1 hour at Yosemite. The tour guides may not have any control over guests. Some of them were oblivious to the fact that there are 25 other passengers and they take their own sweet time to board the bus. There is no proper breakfast available. Many hotels didn\'t have a kitchen. The boating trip in Grand Canyon is majorly an eyewash. They just take you few minutes into water. Why we find this funny is because we saw another party going exactly in the opposite direction of our boat. So we are not sure what we missed and we know what they missed. For the one day tours, come prepared in your sports gear because most of the time you will be chasing the tour guide who will be holding a flag high and walking as though he is participating in the 30 mile olympic walking competition. I suggest tell tour guide you would like to spend the time on your own in the theme parks and meet him up at the end of the day. We don\'t know if the above mentioned \"bad\" is actually bad but that is the part of the package that you are buying.
Recommended Vegas shows - O La reve ( No nudity but spectacular) Read full review
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9 day west coast trip
These tours are contracted to some tour operators.
Given below are the pros and cons of the trip.
Pros: You will be able to visit the key places in this trip.
Great value for money.
Cons: You can have chinese food for many opportunities(not sure if this in good/bad side). I do not recommend buy show tickets.. through the tour guides. It would be better and cheaper if you can do the booking all by yourself before you start on the trip but you want to confirm with Tours4Fun about the exact date in Las Vegas (apparently it is not a fixed date for everyone.) Hotels are sometime boring - If you are a couple you will end up getting double occupancy. Ensure you speak to them before you book the tickets Some of the hotels give you \"smoking\" rooms - difficult for \"Non-Smokers\" Hoover Dam is Just \"Hi & Bye Hoover Dam\" - Don\'t get to spend more than 15 min. It may be a good photo point. There were other viewpoints better for photo stop. Yosemite was a little waste as we spent a full day in travel to spend 1 hour at Yosemite. The tour guides may not have any control over guests. Some of them were oblivious to the fact that there are 25 other passengers and they take their own sweet time to board the bus. There is no proper breakfast available. Many hotels didn\'t have a kitchen. The boating trip in Grand Canyon is majorly an eyewash. They just take you few minutes into water. Why we find this funny is because we saw another party going exactly in the opposite direction of our boat. So we are not sure what we missed and we know what they missed. For the one day tours, come prepared in your sports gear because most of the time you will be chasing the tour guide who will be holding a flag high and walking as though he is participating in the 30 mile olympic walking competition. I suggest tell tour guide you would like to spend the time on your own in the theme parks and meet him up at the end of the day. We don\'t know if the above mentioned \"bad\" is actually bad but that is the part of the package that you are buying.
Recommended Vegas shows -
O
La reve ( No nudity but spectacular) Read full review
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It\'s a bilingual tour
good evening, i\'ve do this tour and i discover that it was a english/chinese tour. it starts from chinatown and during the tour you can eat only chinese food but overall it is a good tour with good value. |
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