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the new

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less Los Angeles is situated in Southern
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on the West Coast of the USA home to 80
million people

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Los Angeles is a collection of distant
cities that rolls out from the dry Santa

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Monica Mountains

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to the Pacific Ocean %uh

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LA's sunshine per entertainment industry

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and her openness to newcomers a new
ideas has made the city

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a magnet to dreamers many of those whose
dreams become reality

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like walt Disney and john paul Getty
board their wealth back into the city

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helping make LA one of the great culture
capitals of the world

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downtown Los Angeles is a center a
global business

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and home to some of the finest examples
of American civic architecture

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dome it's also the birthplace of the
city

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wonder down old Paris Street one of the
oldest surviving areas in LA

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to experience the colors and tastes
evolve Mexico

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just across the road from Olvera Street

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is Union Station one of the world's
great railway stations

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you'll be forgiven if you experience a
sense of deja vu here

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Union Station has been featured in
almost 30 big-budget movies

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including Pearl Harbor & Blade Runner
home

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stroll south to Little Tokyo work J town
as the locals know it

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which is home to a Buddhist temples
galleries and museums

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while you're there

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wanna try some super fresh sushi after
all the California roll was invented

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right here

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home

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half a mile to the west is the Walt
Disney music all

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looking like pieces of sheet music
thrown to the wind

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this stainless steel wonder is home to
LA's

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philharmonic orchestra

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hail a taxi for the short ride west

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to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
the 100 piece collection at LACMA

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houses works that spanned the ages from
the Classical periods

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through the edge just a retard %uh

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right next door is a very different kind
of gallery

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at the La Brea Tar Pits and George see
page Museum

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remains up incredibly preserve mammals
insects and plants

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are continually excavated and brought
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into the Californian sunshine I'm

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heading further west along Wilshire
Boulevard

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the aroma changes from the smell apart
bids to

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Monday welcome to rodeo drive

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in the heart of Beverly Hills this is
the world's most expensive

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and exclusive three blocks up shopping
but you don't have to be a star to enjoy

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rodeo drive

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most folks are content to window shop
dreams

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but there's more to Beverly Hills then
just blames

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only a street or two away awaits a world
of levy boulevards

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an incredible Homes and Gardens

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head north to Hollywood the epicenter of
the world's entertainment industry

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track down your favorite star on the
historic Hollywood Walk of Fame

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and catch a movie at Grauman's Chinese
Theatre the most famous

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first-run movie theater in the world but

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ha I take a walk on the wild our site
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to West Hollywood we ho is a haven for

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artists and designers home

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as evening falls boogie on down to
sunset strip

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home to iconic clubs such as the Viper
Room and the whiskey a go-go

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Tokyo

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Griffith Park

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is the largest and wildest urban park in
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here perched high on the slopes of Mount
Hollywood

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and offering superb views a LA you'll
find the Griffith Observatory

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built on land donated by mining magnate
Griffiths J Griffiths

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admission to the main building and
grounds is still free of charge

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according to his wishes Universal
Studios

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is the oldest continually running movie
studio

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in america it features a theme park
based around its blockbuster movies and

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popular TV shows

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however the star attraction he is the
studio tours

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which winds its way through acres up
sound stages and back lots

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and if you have that sense of deja vu
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it's no wonder sum up the sets have been
featured in dozens of movies and are

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still in use today

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20 miles southeast of downtown

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is not to bury farm originally a berry
farm in the 1930s

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this theme park has grown into a family
favorite with child-friendly rides

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short cues and offers a real taste
america's pioneering heritage

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just down the road in Anaheim

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is Disneyland Park since its opening in
nineteen fifty-five

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over $600 million gas have delighted in
seeing

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disney's much-loved characters brought
to life

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this the Port of Los Angeles the biggest
container port in the USA

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sits on San Pedro Bay climb aboard the
USS Iowa

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a world war two battleships which saw
service in some of the most dramatic

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episodes in world history

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nearby

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at the Aquarium of the Pacific 500
marine species

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sway swirling dive through the various
marine systems have the vast Pacific

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from the sun drenched coast of Baja to
the frigid waters of the Arctic

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Long Beach was once the birthplace of
California surfing scene

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but a breakwater has not tamed the wild
waves

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making the beach and ideal destination
for families

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from Long Beach hop aboard a ferry

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and take a one hour trip to Catalina
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once the whole month hotter hunters
smugglers and gold prospectors

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these days day-trippers and weekenders
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interested in working on their golden
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up the mainland

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heading west from LA santa monica is one
of the most popular resort towns in the

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Santa Monica epitomizes the California
lifestyle apps on

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sand and the body beautiful dodge

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and right at her heart is her iconic
Pierre things get a little fun here just

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down the coast

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at Venice Beach loan the Centara LA's
counter-culture

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business is more than just a beach
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the main attraction here using the prom
a non so call on your

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inline skates enjoy the colorful and
sometimes bizarre

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human uranium

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I'm after the craziness a Venice Beach

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had five miles north to the tranquillity
up the Santa Monica Mountains

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the Getty Center houses the
extraordinary

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art collection a billionaire john paul
Getty

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water features prominently throughout
the complex encouraging

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quiet reflection I'm

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hire a convertible and follow the scenic
Pacific Coast Highway

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to Malibu 21 miles up crime californian
coastline

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said it was sold in coastal sage many a
ballet stars

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live in homes that claim to these
dramatic hillsides by the Pacific

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which is the perfect metaphor more LA a
city built on a

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unshakable optimism and a devotion to
creation both human

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and natural welcome to the City of
Angels

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home