Suggested tour: San Diego Walking Tour: Balboa Park with a Local GuideĤ. An emblem for the park and San Diego is the Botanical Building, one of many splendid holdovers from the 1915-16 Panama-California Exposition.Īmong the largest lath buildings in the world, the Botanical House contains 2,100 individual plants and is fronted by a pond with annual displays of lilies and lotuses. There’s a tapestry of gardens around the park, planted with more than 350 plant species hand-selected at the turn of the 20th century by the botanist Kate Sessions, the “Mother of Balboa Park”. You’ll keep returning to this 1,200-acre urban park for its world-class zoo, restful cultivated areas, museums in refined Spanish Revival buildings and live shows.
Balboa Park Source: Andrew Zarivny / shutterstock Balboa Park Let’s explore the best things to do in San Diego: 1. Set just north of the border, the city has a Mexican influence that spreads to its delectable cuisine, and there’s a deluge of culture at the museums, monuments and theatres of Balboa Park. San Diego’s easy-going culture and miles of beach breaks may awaken the surfer dude in you, while Coronado and La Jolla have two of the best family beaches in the whole country. The colossal aircraft carrier USS Midway speaks to this, and stands as the mother of all museum ships. To go with the comfortable climate and laid-back style, San Diego Bay and its natural harbour have a rich military heritage. California’s birthplace and the first spot in the Western United States where Europeans stepped ashore, San Diego is a city with universal appeal.
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