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Posted: October 12th, 2007 under Travel in general.
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Washington
Extracts of the guide of voyage Ulysses Washington, D.C., by Lorette Pierson
Few cities throughout the world and the history had this chance to be intended to be used as receptacle for the capacity of a nation, even with the destiny of an empire. And even less had the privilege to preserve this vocation other than very other. However, precisely, Washington never served of other intentions but that being the capital of the United States of America.
Geographical overflight
The town of Washington, D.C. is located on Potomac, where the Anacostia river joined it, that is to say to some 120 km of its mouth on bay of Chesapeake and to 220 km of the opening on the ocean. The great area of the capital can conveniently be divided into three sectors: the coastal plain, the plate of Piedmont and the Appalachian Mountains.

Attractions

Capitol Hill
Capitole, which throne at the top of Jenkins Hill, constitutes one of the most visible bench marks of Washington. The architect Pierre Charles the Child, to which was entrusted the plans of Washington, decided to make of Jenkins Hill, modest 27 height m headland, the point of convergence of all the new city.

Washington

The largest library of the world, is Library of Congress, cabin in a building whose frontage points out the Opera of Paris curiously. Thomas Jefferson had one day declared that a member of the Congress was to always be in measurement to consult reference works on any subject. Of which act.

White marble the neo-classic building of Vermont which resembles a Roman temple is the Supreme Court, the supreme Court of the United States. Frame in 1935, this imposing building wants to be undoubtedly the symbol of the great power of highest the Court of Justice of the country.

Downtown area
The National Portrait Gallery and National Museum of American Art is presented as a monument of Greek inspiration in a city where Roman architecture is posted sometimes with excess.

Surroundings of the White House
Each year, more than one million and half of people is had a presentiment of with the doors of White house, celebrates it White House become a symbol of the United States. The French architect Pierre Charles the Child had, in the plans of the city which it had drawn for Washington, considered the construction of an imposing palate intended to accomodate the American presidents.

In the beginning intended to present works of art American, Corcoran Gallery of Art, one of the largest museums of Washington which does not form part of Smithsonian Institute, also have a very beautiful European collection.

Mall
The National Air and Space Museum invites the visitors, impassioned or not aeronautics, with living a single and unforgettable experiment. This museum exposes an impressive collection of planes.

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden was baptized in the honor of Joseph H. Hirshhorn (1899-1981), an American collector which bequeathed to the United States of America more than 12 000 works coming from its personal collection.

The National Museum of African Art presents arts and the ages of Africa at the south of the Sahara. It is besides the only museum of the United States of America to be exclusively devoted to these cultures resulting from sub-Saharan regions.

InArthur Mr. Sackler Gallery, the visitors will be able to plunge themselves in the evolution of the art of Asia and the Middle East, of Antiquity at our days. The museum was created thanks to a gift of more than 1 000 remarkable works of Arthur Mr. Sackler (1913-1987).

Very beautiful traditional building of Renaissance style florentine builds out of marble and out of granite, Freer Gallery of Art opened its doors with the public in 1923. The Freer gallery is the work of Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), one impassioned of Asian art and American art of its time.

US Holocaust Memorial Museum returns vibrating and moving homage to the six million Jews, like with the people gypsy, the handicapped people, homosexual, the witnesses of J

Posted: April 28th, 2008 under Travel in North America.
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Washington in flowers

More than one million visitors will go to Washington to admire the cherry trees in flowers.
For Jake Kwon, spring starts when the cherry trees are in flowers and that they embellish the reflections of Tidal Basin of their splendid pink and white petals.

However, Kwon thinks of fleeing the cherry trees this year. The stoppers of circulation, mud and the tourists in search of a perfect photograph aggravate it.

“It seems that it does not matter where one goes, there is crowd”, said Kwon, a resident of McLean, in Virginia, which works as consultant.

A festival feeric and very run
More than one million tourists are awaited the National Cherry Blossom Festival which takes place in Washington during 16 days and which finishes on April 13. But those which, like Kwon, prefer calms it, do not have anything to fear. They can avoid crowd the morning, thanks to a small course of jogging under the cherry trees, at the end of the evening or benefitting from an escapade on the Potomac river.

Since 1935, the festival is the tourist event par excellence of Washington. Diana Mayhew, director general of the festival, indicates that for better managing the multitude, it is possible that the period of visit is prolonged. In addition, the organizers incite people to go on the other side of the basin to admire the cherry trees.

To know some more:

Cherry Blossom Festival

This year, several activities underlining the gift of 3 000 cherry trees of the mayor of Tokyo, Yukio Ozaki in the United States, are organized.

The team of the national park set up an activity entitled Cherry Chit-Cat. Before the arrival of the horde of tourists, the guide Rebbecca Steketee accompanies the runners on a course by jogging by 5,5 km. The race begins with the Washington Monument, passes by Jefferson Memorial and finishes around Tidal Basin.

Throughout course, Steketee shares its knowledge in connection with the period of flowering. The first trees offered by Japan, for example, in fact arrived in 1910, says it. Unfortunately, they were filled of insects and so patients that the Service of the agriculture of the United States required that they be burned. On the other hand, certain trees survived and one can see them well in life on a golf course near.

The runners can also see single “the indicating tree” close to Jefferson Memorial. It thus is named since it flowers always approximately a week before the other cherry trees. “One does not know why it buds before the others, known as Steketee. It is a mystery.”

Cruisings and observation of night
Although the majority of the tourists are attroup

Posted: April 28th, 2008 under Travel in general.
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Washington and its many monuments

Washington is much more than the political capital of the country. The establishment of Smithsonian Institution in did one of the arts centres most important of America. Its many museums and its splendid galleries will be able to allure most curious. The White House, privileged site, accomodate each year of the million visitors. Quite as popular, the National Air and Space Museum makes dream impassioned planes and spacecraft. Another characteristic specific to Washington: the number impressing of monuments and commemorative places. Immense Washington Monument, homage to the first President, dominates the line of the roofs. The memorials dedicated to the soldiers died in the combat are poignant.
Capitol Hill
Some time after the entry into force of the Constitution in 1788, the seat of the political power of the United States is established in Capitol Hill. This site was chosen, in 1791, among the ten arpents of ground yielded by the State of Maryland. Pierre the Child decided to establish Capitole, centers new city, on a hill located at the east of this ground.

In a little more than two centuries, Capitol Hill became one of the most animated centers of modern America. The signs of an intense cultural activity are omnipresent: federal buildings in the shopping centres, while passing by the shops, restaurants or residential districts with the very varied population.

It is a district attended as well by influential personalities as by ordinary citizens come to present here requests at their deputies or, quite simply, to pose with them on the steps of Capitole.

Mall
On the original levels that the Child had drawn for the capital of the United States, Mall was conceived like a grand boulevard bordered of diplomatic residences of Art schools style. Its plans never were entirely carried out, but it is a splendid spectacle which this great extent bordered on both sides by the museums of Smithsonian Institution, and finishing, at its Eastern end, by Capitole, and on the Western side, by Washington Monument. This spectacular provision of Mall was adopted only after the second world war. Hitherto, space had been used for various installations active of the zoo at the station of railroads, while passing by an underwood. Mall is in the heart of the history of the United States. Very many demonstrations left Washington Monument to go towards Capitole. The pope said the mass there, Afro-American Marian Anderson sang there at the request of the first lady Eleanor Roosevelt and it is here that Martin Luther King made his famous speech I cuts has dream. Each year, July 4 (Day Independence), it is there that one commemorates the birth of the United States, ceremony enclosed by splendid fireworks. The evenings of summer, of the teams of federal employees play the softball on these lawns.

Old Downtown
Delimited in the east by Capitole and the west by the White House, Old Downtown was a long time the heart of the city. F Street, first paved street of the city, resembled a hive, with its shops, its Press Offices, its bars, its churches and the constant procession of the attachments. Downtown was also a residential district where the easy classes had elegant residences, while the tradesmen lived above their stores. But, since 1950, the suburbs attracted the inhabitants of the downtown areas with for consequences, in the years 1980, to make of Downtown a forsaken district. Fortunately, the rehabilitation began in the years 1990 with, in particular, the establishment of the MCI Center and many stores and restaurants.

The White House and Foggy Bottom
The White House, residence official of the President of the United States and inhabited for the first time in 1800, is one of the most known monuments of Washington. The majority of the buildings are of time in spite of the fire which has occurred during the war of 1812 against the English. Not far, other buildings deserve a visit: Daughters of the American Revolution Building and Corcoran Gallery of Art. The district of Foggy Bottom, in the east, was built on marshes. Its most famous buildings are the Kennedy Center, the State Department and Watergate, not test card of the scandal which implied Richard Nixon in 1970.

Georgetown
Georgetown developed well before Washington. The Indians had a camping there. In 1703, Ninian Beall accepted a field in concession which it called The Rock of Dumbarton. In the middle of the XVIIIe century, immigrants Scottish came to enlarge the rows of the population, and, in 1751, the city was renamed Georgetown. It quickly became a prosperous port thanks to the tobacco and the flour and was definitively made up in 1789. The port and Chesapeake and Ohio Canal were built in 1828, while the houses started to be aligned along the streets. The railroad carries a heavy blow to the saving in Georgetown which, in the middle of the XIXe century, was declining. However, the situation improved in the years 1950: the paved streets and the pretty houses attracting the young easy couples, well quickly the restaurants and the shops opened on Wisconsin Avenue and Mr. Street. Today, Georgetown cultivates its quiet difference and it is pleasant to stroll there.

Posted: April 28th, 2008 under Travel in general.
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Whistler, paradise of the full air
Extracts of the Guide Ulysses Vancouver, Victoria and Whistler

Mecque of the sports, inter alia the ski, the golf, the pedestrian excursion, the bicycle of mountain, the board with veil, the parapente and the board with snow, Whistler attracts people of everywhere throughout the world.
An imposing hotel infrastructure honours the small village with the foot with the mon

Posted: April 28th, 2008 under Travel in general.
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Williamsburg, a haunted city… Ian Robertson - SUN MEDIA

Posted: April 28th, 2008 under Travel in general.
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Hawaii became famous thanks to Hawaii 5-0, the famous turned telesery with Honolulu, capital of this 50e American State. But the island which gave its name to the archipelago is much known and much less attended than his/her seven sisters. However, it hiding place treasures. Outline of a destination to seizing contrasts!
The Hawaii, largest and southernmost of the islands of the archipelago of the same name, was formed starting from volcanic lava. It would thus be believed very arid; however, it conceals meadows spread out as far as the eye can see where feed of immense herds. And although it is located in tropical zone, snow there is found!

Higher than the Everest
It is also in the island of Hawaii, the “large island” as it is called, than is the most top of the world: the volcano Mauna Kea. Formed on the ocean floor, it is 10 203 m height - the Everest culminates to 8850 m.

At the top of Mauna Kea, to 4205 m of altitude (compared to the sea level), one embraces an infinite horizon, concerning practically stars. As Hawaii is the world capital of astronomy, the ridge of the mountain does not accomodate less than 13 telescopes, of which most imposing 10 m diameter measure. But there is no need to be astronomer to admire the lunar landscape of this deadened volcano which one reaches in the commercial vehicle sport.

Attention with the pernicious effects of the rise. In spite of an obligatory stop in the center of interpretation, located at 3000 m, several visitors support altitude badly: headaches, nauseas, losses of balance. Fortunately, the majority are free for breathlessness and dizzy spells (at the top, there are only 60 % of oxygen, compared to the rate which exists on the sea level).

See the sun to lie down on the brownish cones and the craters holds of the unreal one! And what to say club of local Alpine skiing?

Earth in an island
The scientists listed 13 climatic zones on our planet. With it only, the island of Hawaii includes/understands 11 of them. It misses there only the climates the Arctic and Saharan.

To the west, one passes from the arid fields of lava to a desiccated vegetation strewn with cactus. Then, as one goes up, the temperature is refreshed, and the gilded meadows turn to the intense green. It is the kingdom of the pastures, where the horses and the cattle feed. Close to Waimea, to approximately 1000 m of altitude, the herd of the Parker Ranch, the most important ranch with single owner of all United States, counts more than 30 000 animals.

In the east, a tropical vegetation covers the escarp

Posted: January 17th, 2008 under Travel in general.
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The beach, fine sand, seafood at will, environment surfing in the USA… It is forgotten that it is at side. Direction: Hampton Beach!

Since the episode of Sex and the City in which one saw the famous New Yorkeans in a rich person villa on the edge of the sea with Hampton Beach, the popularity of this small city of New Hampshire climbed. To go on the boardwalk at the rate/rhythm of the waves and to make shopping in the small shops of Portsmouth are now activities of true fashionistas!

Restaurants and left
For one evening young relaxes (not expensive), Portsmouth Brewery remains one of the most animated places city. Puffs out is excellent there, and the small terrace with the back is charming! To test, the beer tasting (10 in all) been useful in miniverres, which are aligned on a long wood plate. 56, Market Street, Portsmouth.

Posted: January 17th, 2008 under Travel in general.
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Photograph: Newspaper of Montreal

Typical seaside resort of the American East coast, Hampton Beach preserved its a little old-fashioned charm. The Inhabitants of Quebec which visited it there are 20 or 30 years will find it almost intact.

Less foil that Old Orchard and Wildwood, Hampton Beach offers to the holiday makers a nice family atmosphere, a splendid beach and a walk which changed little.

As formerly, the stands of hotdogs, fried and pizza pie are aligned at the sides of the salesmen of tee-shirt, the arcades and the shooting ranges. The old casino of Hampton Beach shelters the same plays apparently as those which made it possible to the children to gain gigantic doggies there is more than one quarter century.

The Ocean Boulevard was repaired. With foot or in the car, it is always also pleasant to circulate there to admire the visitors in light behaviour there.

One always finds there many motels at a cheap rate and of old country cottages of summer in gray shingles which one can rent at the week.

There are certainly some innovations: water a slip, modern hotels along the Ocean Boulevard, a project of condos of luxury… But essentially, Hampton Beach counts still and always on the natural beauties of its sandy beach and the Atlantic Ocean to attract the tourists.

Early the morning, the first visitors walk calmly along the beach of ten kilometers. Quickly, calms it morning made place with the agitation of the bathers.

The weekends of heat wave, approximately 200 000 people can invade the beach. With share of the Inhabitants of Quebec, one finds there mainly Americans of New Hampshire and area of Boston, hardly at one hour of road from there.

Nobody seems too much rejected by another of the things which did not change in Hampton Beach during years: water cold, sometimes frozen, of the Atlantic Ocean.

TO ALSO SEE:

The Inhabitants of Quebec are back

Small guide of the beaches of New Hampshire
Portsmouth, a rich history

N.D.L.R. The Newspaper was the guest of the Office of tourism of New Hampshire.

Posted: January 17th, 2008 under Travel in general.
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Haiti, located at the heart of the zone of the Caribbean, offers the traditional attractions of tourism of this area, but also a certain originality due to its history (first black republic in the world). Its charm is still accentuated by an exuberant tropical vegetation, coral benches attended by multicoloured thousands of fish, cascades, caves, pits, and still well of other treasures!
Geographical overflight
The Amerindians who populated the island of Hispaniola (or of Haiti) were Ta

Posted: January 15th, 2008 under Travel in general.
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The name of Guatemala comes from the word Cuauhtemala, which means the “ground of the trees”. Just like the ceiba, the mythical tree of the Mayas, Guatemala has deep human roots going up at the beginning of times, of the millenia before the arrival of the Spaniards. The metaphor of the tree has still more to offer to us to include/understand this country host of the Mayas.
Geographical overflight
Guatemala has the particular characteristic to be exactly in the geographical center of the American continent. The country divides its borders with Mexico in north and the west, with Honduras and El El Salvador in the south, and finally with Belize in the North-East. Of a surface of 108 899 km2, the territory of Guatemala offers a primarily mountainous landscape. The volcanos which are drawn up at the horizon represent derechef the most spectacular elements of the country.

Attractions
With its three million inhabitants, Ciudad of Guatemala, commonly called Guat

Posted: January 15th, 2008 under Travel in general.
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