So here I am after covering Chicago, St Louis and San Diego.... my next stop is a round trip...New York-Washington- Philadelphia-Baltimore- New York..
My sister had done all the ground work and had booked tickets for me and my mom for a trip with a Chinese tour agency.
So we were on a two day trip to cover DC, philly and Baltimore...We went 2 days before our trip date to New Jersey and stayed with a relative.. I had done a bit of homework on the New York city map.., fixed up sightseeing spots, booked tickets for the museum, statue of liberty and the empire state building.
New York maps are simple to understand... city is well planned. streets and avenues are perpendicular to each other and increase in number when u travel to the north... (I love maps.. and New York was very interesting )
And travelling from New Jersey to New york is also very easy..one just has to connect to the net and look at the bus timings between New york and NJ and stand at the bus stop.. sharp at the time mentioned a bus will arrive.. wonder when pallavan transport will become so techie ;)
And so everything moved as per plans.... first stop was statue of Liberty.. its a beautiful statue.. made of copper..and the oxidation gives it the green colour.. read a bit about the place.. enjoyed clicked manny photos and came back to New york... to walk by wall street and visit the site where the famed WTC buildings once stood....
Wall street means a lot to me.. i dint want much.. just to see the Meryll lynch bull by the end of the street and click a pic or two in front of NY stock exchange ;)
And after that.. walked a looong way around NY..Went to the United nations building.. theres a guided tour in that place, where one is taken through how the United nations works.. a must visit..
Evening was for the Empire state building.. since we had booked tickets online our wait was reduced a lil. we waited only for about 1.5 hrs to get to the elevator..(and yes the wait is clearly mentioned on the website)
Wanted to really see Empire state by the night..but couldn't cos we had an early morning bus from new Jersey to start our tour to Washington...the rest of New York we covered after our DC tour.. where we went to the natural history museum... its huge..and i loved it.. New york was fun in a different way.. the rail system in NY is awesome.. u can get something called a fun day pass for 7 $ and go in any train for the whole day.
The DC tour now...like i said we were on a Chinese tour bus.. so maximum people in the bus were chinese.. The tour guide was chinese but he'd tell about the place in English and then Chinese so we were fine ;)
Our first stop was philly.. just about half an hour for the place where we saw the Liberty bell and the capitol building..since its a timed two day tour one has to adhere to the timings the tour guide fixes..
The next stop was Washington where we started with Smithsonian Museums... this was a space museum.. now in general i find museums very intriguing...i could have spent hours there... but we were alloted very lil time :-( so did a quick tour of the air and space museum.
The other places were ofcourse the White house(from outside :)) the natural history museum,Jefferson memorial, the korean war memorial, Abraham Lincoln memorial ..
the night stay was also arranged by the tour company and we stayed in a very comfy hotel..
Day two of the tour was Baltimore.. Baltimore is a sea port.. so we had a boat tour of the place.. saw naval submarines, ships and some lovely buildings by the port side...
After a quick and tiring two day tour we were back to NJ.. we had one more day to cover the remaining portions of NY and then we were headed towards Boston.. my last and final stop.. before I go back to Louis to the fag end of my trip :(
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