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Sunday Street is an event celebrated every year in San Francisco. This year, they have decided to expand the outdoor community event in a more successful way by adding more dates and including more neighborhoods. Last year was the first year celebration hosted by San Francisco and few events and celebration were made regarding health, fitness and community. Sunday street event got inspiration

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As earth day is coming ahead, everywhere around the world started to be the part of earth hour.  San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge becomes dark for an hour on earth day. Even, other American attractions will also become dark. It includes Mount Rushmore and all 110 storeys of Chicago's sears tower. Other monuments include Sydney Opera House in Australia followed by variety of famous monuments in

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Passengers will be redirected from San Francisco cable cars to buses starting in January as the cable system is upgraded. Cable cars, the picture postcard element of the city tourism industry carry riders to and from fisherman's wharf up and down steep hills and to pier where boats depart for Alcatraz Island. $24 million is spent by San Francisco municipal transportation agency on car's

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San Francisco may be the fall-back weekend getaway for Angelinos, but with flights on Virgin America and South west starting at $49 each way right now, a jaunt up north is hard to resist. Now is a great time to consider a weekend in the Bay Area because Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants, the well-regarded boutique chain, has a San Francisco hotel sale going, with rooms starting at $85 per night? Best

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Hainan has launched 12 new tours to encourage the construction of Hainan International Tourist Island and catch up with the trend of tour products internationalization. "New tour products growth will be the basis for building the international tour island," said Lu Zhiyuan, the head of the Hainan Tourism Development Committee. "With an international view, we will have an international outlook

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"If you are filming a horror flick or a slashes movie, this is the place for you. If you are a NORMAL person, avoid it like the plague!" one traveler warned about an October stay at the Heritage Marina, which has earned negative marks from 80% of Trip Advisor reviewers. (Management at the Heritage Marina, located downtown about a 15-minute walk from Fisherman's Wharf, didn't reply to requests

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Despite delicate economic growth in major source markets such as Europe and the U.S., growth returned to international tourism in the last quarter of 2009, contributing to better than expected full-year results, according to the latest edition of the UNWTO World Tourism Barometer. Prospects have also improved with arrivals now forecast to grow between 3 percent and 4 percent in 2010. This

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India Information: India is the land with the customary, colorful, exotic, modern destination to enjoy roughly all types of holidays. The tour to India fulfills all the expectations of the travelers of every type. The country is having the varied topography, valleys, high mountains and peaks and free flowing rivers. The festivals of India, the local fairs and the warmth of hospitality of the

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The Go San Francisco Card is an all access attraction pass which offers the ultimate in expediency, cost savings, and flexibility for Bay Area visitors. Choose one, two, three, five, or seven day cards at a low, pre-paid price. Use the card to gain access to any and all of the 50 included attractions, saving up to 40% compared to individual admissions. The California Academy of Sciences,

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The Spanish hotelier Axel Hotels will carry its gay hotel chain to New York City in 2011. Axel currently operates "hetero-friendly" hotels in Barcelona, Berlin and Buenos Aires, considered the gay capital of South America. Visitors can choose between the typical "do not disturb" sign or the more risky "please disturb." Renate Siebenhofer, development director of the hotel chain, confirmed the

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The flag of San Francisco, California depicts a rising phoenix, often assumed to be symbol of the city's recovery from the 1906 Earthquake and fire, but it dates several years earlier to about 1900. San Francisco suffered several devastating fires, including six fires between 1849 and 1852 (the last destroying almost the entire city), along with two earthquakes. Every time the city, just like

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The American Public Transportation Association (APTA) got the majority media's concentration during the holiday season after reporting that the dismal economy had helped push transit ridership down by 3.8 percent during the first three-quarters of 2009, when compared with the previous year. But among the bleak data from cities such as Cleveland, where rail ridership fell by more than 14 percent

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Whether you aim to follow the crowds or avoid them on New Year's Eve, you may find a recently released Priceline list interesting-and even helpful, if you're unprompted and have not yet cemented your plans.For the sixth year running, the travel-booking website has put out a list of the top 50 New Year's Eve destinations. The collection of areas globally is based on more than 30,000 "Name Your Own

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The blubbery sea lions at Pier 39, one of San Francisco's smelliest and most famous tourist attractions are gone. During the last month of November, they left the wooden docks on which they have spent the last 20 years and no one knows if they'll be coming back."We have no idea where they moved on to or why," said Shelby Stout, who manages a team that helps stranded animals in the San Francisco

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The Police Department is slash overtime costs for police officers patrolling special events and neighborhood hot spots such as North Beach as San Francisco works to close its present budget shortfall.The Police Department must close a $6 million shortage before the end of the fiscal year in June. It also has as much as $47 million in cuts to contract with next fiscal year, when The City faces a

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To remember the 75th anniversary of the groundbreaking San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, several events are intended, including the launch of The Anniversary Show, a museum-wide exhibition, December 19, 2009-January 16, 2011, with more than 400 works from the collection.On display are seminal paintings, drawings, sculptures, videos, photographs, design objects, and archival resources by a

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Holiday lights lovers can have a magical experience Sunday night, when the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition presents its sixth annual Christmas Lights Ride.Tour the best and brightest Ride leader Robin Marks is a veteran of evening excursion. She recalls that the night of the first ride was cold and foggy, so she was amazed when 30 adventurers turned up."A lot of people

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Visitors and residents can now get the chance to see Abu Dhabi as never before with the launch of a new open-top sightseeing bus tour.The Big Bus Company, a family-owned firm that has operated tours in London since 1991 and Dubai since 2002, now operates in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates.The carefully-designed Big Bus Tour routes take in all the major Abu Dhabi landmarks -

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On a recent visit to San Francisco, I visited the Japanese Tea Garden and ran into this amazing bronze Buddha statue.There really was something that struck me about this statue at that moment. It was my first visit to SF, and I'd spent a pretty magical day w/my husband in the very great Golden Gate Park, which reminded me of Central Park, NYC, only with a Pacific Ocean beach at one end and some

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Bridge officials are searching for a new way to cover the cost of frequent budget deficits and are considering adding an interactive experience and a history center to San Francisco's most famous tourist attraction, The Golden Gate Bridge. In recent years the only option to raise funds was to increase the cost of bridge tolls and transit fares, but the fee increases have been very unpopular with

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Pompeii, with its ancient mosaics and buildings sealed by the volcanic eruption that buried the town, is one of the world's most interesting destinations. But now you don't need to board a plane to visit: It's on Google Street View.Google has mainly focused its 360-degree panoramic service on major living-and-breathing cities around the world like New York, San Francisco, or Rome [USA Today]. But

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What if you could see how different Solano County would be in 2100 if projected temperature increases come about as the earth continues to warm?What if you could see how much of Mission Bay, San Francisco and Oakland airports and large parts of Alameda and San Mateo counties would be underwater if sea levels rose four feet by 2100, as some global-warming models project?That's the goal of Cal

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An oasis of tranquility exists in the midst of bustling San Francisco. A feeling of peace will envelop you as you stroll through the Japanese Tea Gardens in Golden Gate Park.Roundabout along quiet paths and over bridges, you can observe Japanese maple trees, cherry trees, azaleas, dwarf cypress and cedar trees, and ponds teeming with koi. Pagodas, bronze and stone sculptures, and waterfalls give

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How about a San Francisco Giants jersey worn by one of the American caddies during a practice round at The Presidents Cup -- and signed by the entire victorious United States team?The jerseys, which feature the number of Giants greats like Willie Mays stitched below the name of the PGA TOUR player -- in this case, Tiger Woods, are being auctioned off to benefit the Junior Giants program and The

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