Yeah, make sure your wear something red or blue though.
Los Angeles, must see attractions
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Yeah, make sure your wear something red or blue though.
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This to be honest.
Until you see a big pile of rags and then realise it's a homeless person on the beach!
Go to the Hollywood Walk of Fame if you wanted be completely underwhelmed and accosted by pee soaked wino's in filthy Homer Simpsons costumes!
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Yeah if you want to get shot by one of Dr Dre's nephews - unless you're reppin him by wearing Beats by Dre.
I think I saw the best LA has to offered by...
a) Land LAX at 5pmish. Collect rental car. Go to bed.
b) Wake up at 4am, jeg lagged. Go to Hollywood (Which is a complete dump) and Beverely Hills and check out Mullholland Drive.
c) Leave. Be in San Diego for lunch
And Vegas isn't?
Spent a couple of days in LA and the best bit was going down to Orange County, stunning. The rest... Well...
And Vegas isn't?
Not in the same way as LA, no. Remember, Vegas is quite concentrated too, LA is just a huge urban sprawl of meh with the odd attraction dotted around.
Unless you gamble Vegas can be done in 2 days... Walk the strip and look at the casinos one day (and do the rides on stratosphere) then go shooting and do a show the next night, leave the next morning for somewhere nice the next morning! Vegas is just like a glorified Blackpool IMO. I spent 10-12 days travelling through the SE US a few years ago and the worst bits were LA (proper) and LV...
Plenty to see and do, but make sure you get yourself a car as its all dotted around, majority of which is outside 'downtown'. Everybody always refers to LA as a dump, granted there are nicer places around but its still worthy of look around over a few days.
Driving up into the hills in Beverly Hills (mainly residential) is pretty cool, incredible views and some amazing houses. Plenty of places to pull over with your camera also. Rodeo drive is also worth a look (one of if not one of the most expensive streets in the world to shop).
Walk of fame is worth doing, photo opportunities of the Chinese theatre and the disney theatre whilst you're there. The walk of fame itself is a bit underwhelming though, never seen so many 'adult' shops on one street before
Venice beach is really nice, so much activity on the beach front (loads of weirdo's but entertaining nonetheless), and a pretty 'cool' place to be. The beach itself is really nice though. Better than Malibu beach imo though, which is still worth a trip out.
Griffith Park and the observatory are also worth a look.
Driving up into the hills in Beverly Hills (mainly residential) is pretty cool, incredible views and some amazing houses. Plenty of places to pull over with your camera also. Rodeo drive is also worth a look (one of if not one of the most expensive streets in the world to shop).
Walk of fame is worth doing, photo opportunities of the Chinese theatre and the disney theatre whilst you're there. The walk of fame itself is a bit underwhelming though, never seen so many 'adult' shops on one street before
Venice beach is really nice, so much activity on the beach front (loads of weirdo's but entertaining nonetheless), and a pretty 'cool' place to be. The beach itself is really nice though. Better than Malibu beach imo though, which is still worth a trip out.
Griffith Park and the observatory are also worth a look.
And Vegas isn't?
How dare you.
As said, LA is a bit of a dump. Still love it though, but mostly for that skyline...
That's exactly what I thought of Vegas. I loved it, but with the tacky shops, homeless people, beggers, constant getting hassled by prostitute promoters and the fact it is really very dirty, it's not by any standard a nice city.
I loved LA. Santa Monica was cool. Lots of great bars/restaurants too. The main attractions Hollywood, Walk of Fame, LA Zoo, etc weren't that great.
Thing that made the Zoo worth while for us is that this flew overhead.
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