Top 10 Things to do in San Francisco
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1. Golden Gate Bridge
The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the opening of the San Francisco Bay into the Pacific Ocean.This is a must-see place for all visitors to the bay area. Not only a beautiful bridge, but a beautiful area of town
Bring your camera, binoculars, and fleece or coat - it can be really windy. Best time to visit is spring or fall, as often in summer there's so much fog you can't see the top of the bridge.
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2. Alcatraz Island
Alcatraz Island is an island located in the San Francisco Bay, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) offshore from San Francisco, California.
Today, the island is a historic site operated by the National Park Service as part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and is open to tours. Visitors can reach the island by ferry ride from Pier 33, near Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco. In 2008 the nation's first hybrid propulsion ferry started serving the island. Alcatraz has been featured in many movies, TV shows, cartoons, books, comics, and games.
3. California Academy of Sciences
The California Academy of Sciences is one of the ten largest museums of
natural history in the World.
Public Areas:
Steinhart Aquarium - which takes up most of the basement area, as well as
four-story dome that emulates a rainforest
Morrison Planetarium - devoted to things astronomical.
Kimball Natural History Museum - which, in addition to African Hall and a
Foucault pendulum.
4. Lombard Street
The worlds most twisted street. Lombard Street is an east-west street in San Francisco, California. It is famous for having a steep, one-block section that consists of tight hairpin turns.Lombard Street is best known for the one-way section on Russian Hill between Hyde and Leavenworth Streets, in which the roadway has eight sharp turns that have earned the street the distinction of being the crookedest street in the world.
5. Japanese Tea Garden
The Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco, California is a historical Japanese-style garden originally built as the Japanese Village for the 1894 California Midwinter International Exposition. Japanese immigrant and gardener Makoto Hagiwara designed the bulk of the garden and was officially appointed caretaker in 1894 until the hysteria surrounding World War II. In the years to follow, many Hagiwara family treasures were liquidated from the gardens, but new additions were also made.
Today, the Tea Garden is one of the most popular attractions in San Francisco, featuring beautiful monuments, bridges, native Japanese plants and ponds. Guests can also enjoy the service at the tea house and gift shop.
6. Aquarium of the Bay
Aquarium of the Bay is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums
and located at Embarcadero and Beach Street, at the edge of Pier 39 in San
Francisco.
Attractions:
The Aquarium has over 50 sharks from species such as Sevengill sharks, leopard
sharks, soupfins, spiny dogfish, brown smoothhounds and angel sharks. The
Aquarium also has skates, bat rays and thousands of other animals including
eels, flatfish, rockfish, Wrasse, Gobies, Kelpfish, Pricklebacks, Ronquil,
Sculpin and Sturgeons.
The Aquarium is divided into three parts: Discover the Bay, Under the Bay and
Touch the Bay.
7. Blue and Gold Fleet Bay Cruise
Blue & Gold Fleet, the Bay Area’s premier provider of Bay Cruise, Ferry Serviceand Motorcoach Tours, is located at PIER 39 in San Francisco. Blue & Gold Fleet's famous one-hour Bay Cruise sails along the City’s waterfront, past the PIER 39 sea lions, under the Golden Gate Bridge, by Sausalito, past Angel Island
and around Alcatraz.
Blue & Gold Fleet also provides
scheduled ferry service to Sausalito, Tiburon, Angel Island, Vallejo, Alameda
and Oakland.
8. Ruby Skye
Ruby Skye is San Franciscos premier Nightclub and Special Event Venue. We are conveniently located in Union Square and are within walking distance to many of San Franciscos most notable hotels.
A Turn of the Century Victorian Playhouse restored with all the high tech accoutrement, Ruby Skyes interiors were designed by Pamela Pennington Studios and presents a striking juxtaposition between its origional Art Nouveau archecture and its plush modern furnishings. Ruby Skye is housed in an historical landmark built in the 1890s and was formally The Stage Door Theatre.
9. Ocean Beach in SF
Ocean Beach is a beach that runs along the west coast of San Francisco, at the Pacific Ocean. It is adjacent to Golden Gate Park, the Richmond District and the Sunset District.
Surfing
The water at Ocean Beach is noteworthy for its strong currents and fierce waves, which makes it popular among many serious surfers.
The Ocean Beach surfing community is equipped with four of their own surf shops, several popular beach-themed cafes, as well as scores of local surfers devoted to its cold water and dangerous break.
Weather
The beach throughout the late spring and summer is almost always enveloped in San Francisco's characteristic foggy weather leaving average temperatures there at 50 - 55 °F (9 - 12 °C), thus scaring away many tourists and beach goers. Conversely, the beach is popular with surfers, and bonfire parties. More beach-friendly weather occurs in late fall and early spring, when the fog dissipates.
10. Fishermans Wharf
One of the busiest and well known tourist attractions in North America, it is best known for being the location of Pier 39, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, the Cannery Shopping Center, Ghirardelli Square, a Ripley's Believe it or Not museum, the Musée Mécanique, the Wax Museum at Fisherman's Wharf, Forbes Island and restaurants and stands that serve fresh seafood, most notably dungeness crab and clam chowder served in a sourdough bread bowl.
Hyde Street Pier
Other attractions in Fisherman's Wharf area are the Hyde Street Pier which is part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, the USS Pampanito a decommissioned World War 2 era submarine, and the Balclutha, a 19th century whaling ship
Movies
In 1985, the wharf was used as a filming location in the James Bond film A View to a Kill, where Bond (played for the last time by Roger Moore) met with CIA agent Chuck Lee (David Yip) in his quest to eliminate the villain of the film Max Zorin (Christopher Walken).
