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.

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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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I admit it: child, I dreamed of the castle of Beautiful with wood sleeping and of the charming prince. Twenty years later, the castle was transformed into 6 1/2, and the fair prince as a king of the jungle with dreads. But can I still let me gain by “the magic of Disney”?
TUESDAY
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Posted: January 11th, 2008 under Travel in North America.
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The fabulous chain of the Rocky Mountains is reproduced naturally on any route of voyage in this corner of country. But such a tour would remain incomplete without the visit of Calgary and its famous Stampede; undulating plains of the south of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba; splendid lakes and rivers of the north of these provinces; metropolis of the coast of the Pacific (Vancouver) or dazzling littoral, of the GULF Islands and the fruit-bearing valleys of the south of the Colombia-British.
GEOGRAPHICAL OVERFLIGHT

The Colombia-British, at the edge of the Pacific, is primarily occupied by important assembly lines. Alberta starts on the Eastern slope of Rock and extends towards the east along the large Canadian central meadow to the close province: Saskatchewan. Lastly, always towards the east, Manitoba is wedged between Saskatchewan and Ontario.

Climate
The Canadian West offers a climate which varies area in area largely. Thus, the area of Vancouver profits, to some extent, of a microclimate due to its geographical situation between the Pacific and the Rock ones. The temperature of Vancouver oscillates between 0oC and 15oC in winter, and the summer sees mercury assembling few degrees. The remainder of the Canadian West, because of altitude of Rock and the wind of the Meadows, has a very varied climate. The winters are cold and dry, whereas mercury can reach 40oC below zero, but the average is of 20oC under the freezing point. The summers are dry everywhere, whereas the temperature plank the 25oC in the plain and is maintained lower in altitude.

Time shift
The Canadian West covers four different time zones. As a Colombia-British, it is nine hours earlier than in Western Europe, while in Alberta it is eight hours earlier. When it is midday in Montreal, for example, it is 9h in Vancouver and 10h in Calgary.

ATTRACTIONS

Canadian west

The Colombia-British
The imposing landscapes of the Colombia-British are hustled in front of our eyes dazzled by the sea, the eternal snow and the colors of the spring, which starts very early in this area. The appointment with nature is memorable; the rivers which wet the deserted beaches invite to the relaxation and the daydream. The majestic forests take care of the serenity of the inviolate places by the forestry development. Rich person of several national parks and provincial, the Colombia-British offers a landscape very varied, since the eternal snow, while passing by rivers which abound with fish, to the desert valleys. The province is considered, for a long time, for its varied and unexpected activities of full air. The mountains, often covered of eternal snow or glaciers, occupy 80% of the territory there. The lakes which collect the glacial silt relative of iridescent colors. As for the forests, they form part of most prestigious world.

The Rock Ones
The Rock ones, this chain of high mountains at the tops varying between 3 000 m and 4 000 m, are formed old crystalline and metamorphic rocks raised, rocked then modelled by the glaciers. Directed north in the south and located at horse on the provinces of Alberta and the Colombia-British, they cover the Yukon Territory. Extending more than 22 000 km2, this vast area, recognized in the whole world for its natural beauties out of the commun run, accomodates million visitors each year. Landscapes of high mountains of a rare beauty, unchained rivers on which the amateurs of descent of rapids are given some to heart joy, of the lakes slacks whose color of water varies green emerald with turquoise blue, a fauna diversified and omnipresent in the parks, of the ski resorts famous and a hotel park of a great quality, all contributes to make the stay unforgettable.

Alberta
Vast wide that you will cross while traversing southernmost Alberta of west in east contrast hard with the high snow-covered tops of the Rocky Mountains culminating behind you. Rows of corn and the other graminaceous ones carefully aligned, balls of hay of a studied roundness, hills slightly undulating subjected to so to speak desert and lifting conditions of scattered grains are about all the distractions to which you will have right in this part of the province. The center of Alberta covers a vast side of the province which includes Canadian Badlands, the buttresses and Rocky Mountain Forest Reserve just as the central grounds, that is to say an area which conceals a priceless quantity of natural resources. The vast back-country of North albertain offers excellent occasions of activities of full air, but also the chance to discover some of the cultural communities of Alberta, as well as the national park Wood Buffalo and Mackenzie Highway.

Saskatchewan
The spectacular valley of Which Calls extends on about two thirds of the width of the province by digging in the plain a broad punctuated furrow of deep glacial depressions which cut through a path to the river. You in north venture a little more, to the two principal cities of Saskatchewan, and astonishing architectural accents will be offered to your glance. In other areas, it is the preponderance of the Eastern-European churches which jumps to the eyes with their painted domes, such of sumptuous and delicate Easter eggs, which rise above the meadow, vibrating testimonys with the impossible to circumvent Ukrainian influence. More to north, the meadows abruptly yield the step to the hills, then with the mountains, the forests and the lakes, attenuating the surprise somewhat to learn that here, the wooded grounds cover half of the province and occupy more space that the cultivated grounds! In the final analysis, time runs out always also slowly in Saskatchewan.

Manitoba
Flattened by the large glaciers of the last diluvial period, the southern part of Manitoba does not comprise any unevenness. Where thousands of square kilometres of high uninterrupted meadows undulated formerly under the effect of the wind, covered coloured fields of durum wheat, flax, canola and sunflower push today. And in the wet areas, of the thousands of small marshes accomodate a variety of watery species from here and besides. However, the topography of the province presents also fertile arable lands and immense lakes around whose innumerable birds elected residence. Actually, the part planes province counts only for 40% of its total surface; the remainder is composed of hills and rivers carved in the Canadian Shield, this immense hard and old stone ring which surrounds Hudson Bay and which is done more visible here and in the north of Ontario.

Posted: January 7th, 2008 under Travel in North America.
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Posted: January 6th, 2008 under Travel in North America.
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