Attractions in DC

Washington DC Like any other state capital is full of  state departments and whole lot of museums.  There are many sight seeings organized (Open top Bus). Even there is a free guided walking tour.  The parliament building is called as Capitol here.  I could see the whitehouse from some distance. They this National Mall here.  Looking at the name I thought it must be something to do with a big shopping mall. But guess what ? It is a just a stretch of garden in between two major streets. It seems the Independence day parade is held here every year.

One more thing DC stands for District of  Columbia.  It’s like an union territory sort of thing. DC is between the states Virgenia and Maryland. The  horizontal streets are named on numericals and vertical streets are named on alphabets excepting some major streets which have their own names. I came to know that America had it’s first president way back in 1789, Mr. George Washington.  It needs no explanation for the system they have now. People say Rome was not built in a day. But I don’t care. I want to see how many years it took for US.

Somebody told me, Germany was the first to start the Freeway. America followed imitated them. Somewhere around first worldwar US had come up with this Infrasturucture project which took them 20 yrs for building all the road network. Need to google this and verify the authenticity.

I am not a museum freak. I had been to this National Air & space museum where they display the Apollo which went to Moon.  You see the history of Aeroplane and from where it started.

There are some scientific dispalys that will teach the airflying principle. You feel the drift etc. Overall it is worth dekho, mainly for highschool kids.  The main advantage of washinton is you can roam around in subways. There are four different train routes which are well organized. In fact I use metro daily.  In this month of August (summer holidays for kids) we see lot of families visiting the city. They have map in one hand and water bottles on the other. This is the city where you can spend 3 days holidaying without using the car. Don’t about NY.

The popular Video game which is always sold out in major stores in Nintendo Wee.  I became the proud owner of  this game in this city.

To be contd….