Travel Tips

As tourist, when we visit a city, it is always interesting to check out the various tours of that city that are offered. Many cities have tours that are similar to basically any other city. Seattle, Washington, however, is different from most other cities. Not only do they have tours that really can’t be compared to anywhere else on earth, they have tours that are delightfully fun and entertaining in and of themselves.

One of the more interesting and most popular tours of Seattle is called Ride the Ducks of Seattle. This tour takes you on amphibious World War Two vehicles throughout the city giving you a great tour of Seattle from land and water. The tour lasts about ninety minutes and will be unlike any other tour you’re ever likely to take again.

The second tour of interest is a toss up with another tour for my favorite land excursion. I’ll tell you about both; hopefully, you will try both and decide which one you like best. This would be called Bill Speidel’s Underground Tour. This tour is strange, hilarious, and fun all at the same time. It is also shocking and disturbing in ways too. The idea that a city was built basically on top of itself is a little strange, but to discover that the original city isn’t ruins makes the tale even stranger to those who don’t know the story. The story is great and the telling is even better. The only drawback to this tour is that young children might find it either disturbing or boring, or both. So be prepared to entertain. The terrain is also not suitable for strollers if you have very little ones.

My next favorite tour is called Private Eye Tours. This tour takes you to scenes of crimes some solved, some unsolved throughout the city. There are three tours that you can currently take. Each one costs $25 per person and lasts about two and a half hours, except for the ghost tour, which lasts three hours. The different tours are: The Queen Anne Mystery and Murder Tour, The Capital Hill Mystery and Murder Tour, and Haunted Happenings, which is also known as the Seattle Ghost Tour. Each of these tours is great fun for those who are not squeamish and make a great gift for a true crime fan or someone who loves those old fashioned detective novels.

If you are interested in whale watching there are several excursions you can take. First of all, during the height of the season (June and July) you have an excellent chance of seeing whales if you watch from the western side of San Juan Islands. This is probably the best way to see whales from land. Beyond that you can take several chartered whale watching excursions. Here are a few of the companies offering whale watching cruises: San Juan Safaris (you can also do a five hour Orca search by kayak with this company), Salish Sea Charters, Island Adventures (this tour offers a discount for early birds and they offer a whale spotting guarantee), and Maya’s Whale Watching Charters, which for a slightly higher price gives you a much smaller boat and puts you much closer to the water for a better view of the whales.

Tours are a great way to get the most of your vacation experience. I hope I have showcased some of the more unique and colorful tours that Seattle has to offer. There are the general tours of the city and walking tours as well, these are just the tours that stand out and leave an impression.

Considering how San Diego is one of the best cities in
the United States, its really easy to tell how popular
the city is for tourists. Among the many accomplishments
behind San Diego, let’s take a look at several facts behind
this amazing city.

Fact 1
Inside the city limits of San Diego, more than 1 million
people live there. This makes the city the second largest
in California and the sixth biggest in the entire United
States! For the city to be this big, the residents still
have that hometown experience – which is quite amazing!

Fact 2
No matter what type of year it is, it’s never the wrong
time to visit. The weather is near perfect year round, giving
you the chance to experience everything to offer here. With
an annual high of 70 degrees and a low of 55 degrees,
you can pretty much go swimming year round.

Fact 3
If you visit between December – March, you can catch some
glimpses of the impressive gray whale. All along the coast
or on a cruise, you can catch this very amazing mammal.

Fact 4
If you travel just 23 miles south, you’ll be in the beautiful
city of Tijuana. What was once thought of as dangerous,
happens to be an amazing place of Mexican hospitality,
with great restaurants, shopping, and a pleasing nightlife.

Fact 5
San Diego offers an amazing array of flowers and roses. With
the climate being dry, it’s the perfect conditions for roses,
wild daises, and other exotic flowers. With different flowers
in the winter and summer months, avid flower lovers will fall
in love with everything San Diego has to offer them.

Fact 6
It’s no secret that one of the biggest attractions to San
Diego are the beaches. Make sure you read the signs though,
as the beauty behind the beaches vary almost as much as the
rules do.

Fact 7
When it comes to nightlife, San Diego has something to please
everyone. From country dancing to singing in a bar, the city
has a very happening nightlife. No matter what you like to
do at night, San Diego has it all – and probably a bit more.

Fact 8
The most attractive feature to San Diego is the zoo. The 100
acre zoo here houses almost 4000 animals all of which who have
plenty of room to roam around. With pandas for everyone to see,
the San Diego zoo is reason enough to give the city a visit.

For more reasons than one, San Diego is the perfect city to
visit. You can visit here with family or friends and know that
you’ll always have places to go and things to see. Winter or
summer, San Diego is the one place you’ll never find boring.