Browse below through descriptions of ideas by the dozen for thing to do and see during your visit to San Diego	SAN DIEGO AREA ATTRACTIONS After you are done here, visit our planner page listing most attractions in the area. Click here to Purchase advance tickets for over 25 of the San Diego area attractions, reserve tee times at dozens of Golf courses.
	Sea World	buy tickets for Sea World
		Buy tickets for Harbor Excursions and Whale Watching
	Missions	Museums
	San Diego Zoo	Buy tickets for the Old Town Trolley Tour
Golf

 

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The world famous San Diego Zoo currently has the Giant Pandas from China. Visit the Orangatans, Gorilla Tropics, Tiger Alley, Hippo Beach, Bear Canyon, and birds, plants and other animals from all over the world. Enjoy the petting zoo, skyride, bus tours, fair weather strolls. The surrounding area of Balboa Park has the San Diego Air and Space Museum, the Museum of Man, the Space Theater and Science Center, Automotive Museum,, RailRoad Museum,  Sports Museum, Photographic Arts Museum, Natural History, as well as Folk and other Art museums. Other attractions include botanical gardens, restaurants and the Old Globe Theater.

Free Concerts in San Diego's beautiful BALBOA PARK : Experience the magic of one of the great concert organs of the world. Free to the public, Sunday afternoons from 2:00 to 3:00 San Diego Civic Organist Robert Plimpton and guest artists perform a variety of familiar classics, contemporary favorites, organ masterworks and more. The Spreckels Organ and Pavillion have been in almost continuous use since December 1914 at the opening of the Panama-California Exposition.

In addition to the numerous museums in Balboa Park there are many others in the area:

• Cabrillo National Monument - site of 1542 arrival, the lighthouse, ocean and harbor views
• California Center for the Arts Museum in Escondido
• Carlsbad Children's Museum ------ as well as the Children's Museum of San Diego (Downtown)
• Marine Corps Recruit Depot Command Museum - Marine Corps as part of S.Calif history since 1846
• Museums of Contemporary Art - in La Jolla and Downtown
• San Diego Maritime Museums - 1863 Star of India, 1898 Berkley, 1904 Medea. Step aboard.
• Serra Museum - Site of first mission and presidio. Exhibits of Native, Spanish and Mexican heritage.
• Stuart Collection of Sculpture at University of California, San Diego

San Diego County has 70 miles of beaches and coastal activities. Swimming, surfing, sunning, fishing, and wildlife viewing are all here.
	Whale watching excursions are available to view the great whales as they migrate from the Arctic feeding grounds to the calving grounds along Baja California.

Other area attractions and activities include:

• Mission San Diego de Alcala - first of 21 California missions founded by the Franciscans
• Quail Botanical Gardens - one of the worlds most diverse plant collections.
• San Diego Wild Animal Park - 1000+ acres of animals in their natural habitat.
• Hot Air Ballon Flights
• Harbor Excursions and ferry to Corodando Island and cruises to Mexico. Buy tickets for Harbor Excursions and Whale Watching
• Sea Port Village -Waterfront shopping, dining and open air concerts.
• Wineriess and vineyards - in San Diego County and further north in Riverside County
• Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography
• Hotel del Coronado in the beautiful town of Coronado on an island in the bay.
• Sea World of California - buy tickets for Sea World
• Take a trolley ride to:
• -- San Diego Old Town - an historic preservation of early San Diego pueblo.
• -- Border with Mexico - Tijuana, Tecate, Baja
• The San Diego area is the largest military complex in the world. Predominately the Navy and Marines. Dozens of ships stationed here from aircraft carriers to submarines.

: The San Diego area has dozens of golf courses. Click here to reserve a Tee Time.


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