GEORGIA: THE PEACH TREE STATE
BY CLAY
LARROY
Traveling is great
personal interests because it will make a more open-minded person when it comes
to inter acting with people. It also made it easier to understanding as to why
people act the way they do in their own society and in a society as diverse as
the U.S. It has long been said that travels “broadens the mind”. Now new
evidence proves that jumping on a plane will not only make you smarter, but
more open-minded. When you need
to plan a vacation contact me! Georgia is delightfully
diverse, mixing shiny skyscrapers and antebellum architecture, forested
mountains and low-lying swamps, with no end of irresistible Southern
charm.
In the booming city of Atlanta (known as "The City in a
Forest"), magnolia and dogwood trees surround handsome Georgian-style
homes, yet only blocks away, dazzling contemporary buildings add to the city's
ever-growing skyline. The glitzy Georgia Aquarium and the World of Coca-Cola
(sugar overload alert) are visitor magnets, while locals bike the Eastside
Trail and refuel at Ponce City Market's cosmopolitan eateries.
Small-town Georgia shows its stuff on the Antebellum Trail,
winding through over 160km (100 miles) of sprawling plantation estates,
colonnaded antebellum homes and beautifully preserved inns dishing up Southern
soul food of grits and fried chicken.
Hundreds of hardcore thru-hikers start the Appalachian Trail at
Springer Mountain every spring, but if you don't have a spare six months to
trek all 3,510km (2,181 miles) to Maine, fear not. Hikes to Blood Mountain, the
trail's highest point in Georgia, or Long Creek Falls, are both doable in a
day.
To the east, wild horses roam on Cumberland Island, a plantation
turned Carnegie family retreat, and now a place to camp, flop on undeveloped
beaches and hike through untouched coastal forest.
History buffs can visit Civil War battlefields and sites across
the state, including Old Fort Jackson on the Savannah River, Georgia's oldest
intact brick fortification, with ear-splitting daily cannon firings. And movie
aficionados may recognise a few spots from The Hunger Games or The Walking Dead. Fortunately, you're unlikely to meet
any zombies.
Things
to see and do in Georgia
Canoeing
Paddle a canoe through the
Okefenokee Swamp keeping an eye out for the resident alligators.
Fame and flags
Tour the Georgia State
Capitol on Washington Street, Capitol Square, Atlanta. It also houses the
Georgia Hall of Fame and the Hall of Flags.
Georgia Aquarium
Located in downtown
Atlanta across from Centennial Olympic Park, the brand new Georgia Aquarium is
the largest indoor aquarium in the world. It boasts an impressive 8 million
gallons and 505,000 sq ft, and features more than 100,000 freshwater and
saltwater fish and mammals representing 500 species from around the globe,
divided into 60 different habitats. The largest one holds over 6 million
gallons of water and was specially designed to house whale sharks alongside
tens of thousands of other coral reef and open ocean creatures. Another
striking feature of the aquarium is its 30m (100ft) long tunnel, one of the
largest aquarium windows in the world with views into whale shark habitat. The
second largest habitat (800,000 gallons) was specially designed to simulate the
natural habitat of beluga whales.
Gold rush
Pan for gold in Dahlonega (www.dahlonega.org),
an old mining town.
History
Visit Madison, an historic
town spared from ruin during Sherman's 'March to the Sea' in 1864.
History
Visit Madison, an historic
town spared from ruin during Sherman's 'March to the Sea' in 1864.
Island getaway
Spend the day at Tybee
Island (www.tybeeisland.com)
featuring sands, fishing piers and a marine science centre. The city is also
home to the celebrated Savannah Jazz Festival in September. Explore Jekyll
Island's (www.jekyllisland.com) unspoiled natural beauty and
fascinating history. It's an ideal destination for bird watchers, golfers and
history enthusiasts, and was once the winter sanctuary of some of the US's
wealthiest industrialists, such as William Rockefeller and Richard Crane.
Play golf
Play a game of golf on one
of over 400 golf courses in the state. Georgia is a paradise for outdoor
enthusiasts due to its temperate climate.
Presidential sights
Travel to the Pine
Mountain area (www.pinemountain.org), noted for its Callaway
Gardens and for President Franklin D Roosevelt's Little White House (www.fdr-littlewhitehouse.org)
at Warm Springs.
Shopping
Shop in Underground
Atlanta (www.underground-atlanta.com), a restored
four-square block shopping and entertainment area, located near the business center
of Atlanta and home to the Zero Mile Post, which marks the city's birthplace.
Stone Mountain
Climb or ride the cable
car to the top of Stone Mountain (www.stonemountainpark.com),
where gigantic representations of three confederate heroes (President Jefferson
Davis and Generals Robert E Lee and Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson) have been
carved into a cliff-face.
Visit an icon
Pay your respects to an
icon at the Tomb of Martin Luther King (www.nps.gov/malu),
located at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.
White water rapids
Raft the rapids on the
Ocoee (site of 1996 Olympic events) or Chattahoochee Rivers.
Wild encounters
See the wildlife at the
Atlanta Zoo (www.zooatlanta.org) in Grant Park. While at the
park, tour the restored Confederate Fort Walker, and the Cyclorama, a
world-famous 123m- (406ft-) circumference painting of the Battle of Atlanta.
View over 100,000 fish and sea creatures at Atlanta's Georgia Aquarium (www.georgiaaquarium.org),
billed as the largest aquarium in the world.
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I
look back on my life, comin' out of Macon, Georgia - I never thought I'd be a
superstar, a living legend. I never heard of no rock and roll in my life.
Little Richard
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