Monterey Bay Aquarium

On the second day of my weekend in San Jose, we visited Monterey, California, USA. After a hearty sea food meal at Ocean side restaurant, we reached the Monterey Bay Aquarium. The tickets to the Aquarium are bit costly, but if you are staying on the West coast of USA its worth visiting this tourist attraction. There are many sections in side the Aquarium which cover different variety of sea animals. I would recommend you to spare minimum four hours to visit this place. Each section has shows of various fish or sea animals with trainer giving valuable information of these animals. So if you are with kids be sure you grab copy of the show timings at the entrance and follow the map accordingly.

Fishermans Wharf, SFO

The Fishermans Wharf, San Frasisco, USA is one of the popular tourist destinations. We wounded our SFO one day tour at the SFO Fishermans Wharf. The local area also includes the Ghiradelli Square, Crooked Street, etc which are must see. We finished our dinner at one of the Pizza joints and roamed on the street adjacent to Fisherman Wharf Street.
There were shops and street side vendors selling SFO Souveniers. As the name suggests there were few Fishermans shops selling fresh sea fish. The display of the various fish at the stall was amazing. Unfortunately, all our camera batterys were exhausted and we were unable to take pictures by night time.

Good Bye DisneyLand, LA, USA

The visit to Disney Land usually gets over around 7 o clock. As the Park closes for the day after the Disney Parade is over.
Sun has already set and it has already become dark in the Park.
The Park gets lit up with glittering lights all over place. And every one is in merry mood. Somewhere in the mind everyone is reluctant to leave the Park and go back to the hotel room.

All the Disney Land Cartoon Characters gather together at the Exit of the Park to bid a good bye to the visitors of the Park.
This is followed by small firework show. This is the last chance to see all your favourite
Disney Land Cartoon Characters at the
Disney Land Park, LA, USA.
Click here to watch video of Disney Charaters bidding Goodbye at Exit gate.

Disney Parade

The Diney Land hosts parade once a day in the Disney land Park. The timings of the Parade are fixed. The parade usually last for around one hour. So the visitors to the Park should check out the place and time of the parade and plan your visit in the park accordingly.
We had opportunity to watch the Disney Parade at Disney Land, LA, USA.
The Disney Parade usually consists of march of all major disney characters accompanied by the music of thier relevant film or character theme. Some times pictures speak more then words and Disney Parade is one of them.

Disney Land, LA, USA

We visited Disney Land, LA, USA on our second day of Los Angeles Trip. After parking the car in of the multi-storeyed car parks, you need to catch the Disney Lands bus heading towards the Entrance Gates. The Theme park does not allow you to carry food or water inside the park, so its advisable to eat your personal food items inside the car and then leave for the Theme Park visit.
After buying the tickets at the ticket counter you can enter the Theme park. The tickets are accompanied by fasttrack coupons and Theme parks maps. At Information counter, its advisable to check the rides of your intrest where the fast track passes can be used to avoid long queues.
The Disney land usually hosts Disney Parade at the end of the day. So its advisable to ask the destination of the Parade and plan your days visit accordingly.
The Theme park is divided in four or five parts according to the type of rides available.
Since we were group of four adults, we headed towards the Adventure Land first.

Hollywood

The visit to LA is incomplete without taking a snap in front of the iconic HOLLYWOOD statue. While roaming the Universal Studio we had opportunity to take a closeup snap of the Hollywood statue immitation. On our third day of LA trip we had tried to catch glimpse of the real Hollywood statue or hoarding from one of the streets of LA. Its difficult to park the car and take your snap along with the Hollywood hoarding. So some how we managed to take full view snap of Hollywood from our cars window.

Universal Studio Tour

Universal Studio in LA offers a internal tour to explore the various sets of the films produced at the Studio. There is a special open bus which takes you around the sets. The Tour lasts for about half an hour and is available after every 10 to 15 minutes. The tour is also available in multiple languages for conveniences of various tourist.

Jurrasic Park Film Set

Jurassic Park and Mummy Ride

The Jurassic Park and Mummy Ride at the Universal Studio, LA were one of the most memmorable rides I have ever enjoyed at the Theme Park. These rides are located next to each other and its expected to have huge queues for these rides. It made sense to couple these rides at the end of the day.
We tried to enjoy most of the rides in the theme park till there were couple of hours left for the end of the day.
As expected the crowd at these rides had comparatively less by end of the day and we were able to enjoy both the rides twice. One is not allowed to carry bags and other stuff in the Mummy ride. There are separate lockers provided to keep your belongings outside the entrance of the ride.