Inject Some Variety to Your Summer Travel Plans
Posted in General Interest on 12/08/2009 10:02 am by EditorWould you like to know about a summer travel destination that offers a tremendous amount of diversity in the vacation opportunities and activities? We are all different in exactly what we’d like to do during our summer travel. Some of us want to visit Disneyland and some just want to relax on the beach. Others love to see historical sites and still others love to play golf.
An obvious destination is the Disneyland Resort, which includes Downtown Disney and Disney’s California Adventure (by the way, the company is spending like a billion dollars on a major renovation of California Adventure over the next several years).
Anyone who has not visited Anaheim in awhile will be surprised at its evolution over time. California Adventure exhibits the diversity of California culture, from citrus orchards to downtown Los Angeles to the northern California Wine Country. If you do any people watching, you will notice a very international mix of visitors at the Resort. It is a great place for people watching—a veritable cultural melting pot.
There are not a lot of other places in the world where you’ll find such a complex melting pot of nationalities as in Southern California. Although there are often visitors from Europe, Africa and Asia, the countries along the Pacific Ocean are particlularly well represented.
Along with visits to theme parks and the beach, it may be worthwhile to visit some of the permanent ethnic communities spread around Orange and Los Angeles counties in particular. These include Chinatown, Little Tokyo and Koreatown in Los Angeles County. Some of the best-known ethnic communities in Orange County include the Vietnamese community in Little Saigon, and the Hispanic community around Fourth Street in Santa Ana.