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Travel / Los Angeles
1. Hollywood Boulevard,
made famous by celebrity
names imprinted
on the sidewalk.
2. Get a selfie with
Spider-Man on the
Walk of Fame.
3. Hollywood Boardwalk,
stretches nearly two
and a half miles along the
Atlantic coast.
4. Created in 1923,
the iconic sign overlooks
Los Angeles.
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Getting there
LAX
Codeshare route with
Delta Air Lines
Airways flies 7 times a week
Currency US Dollars
Time Zone UTC -7
Transportation
Californian language
May Gray – clouds that roll
in from the ocean in May.
Dirty Dog – delicious hot
dog with the dog wrapped
in bacon.
5
senses:
sight
La Brea Tar Pits
E/ Bizarrely, in the
centre of LA sits
La Brea Tar Pits,
a still-bubbling
prehistoric lake
whose sticky tar has
captured hundreds
of mammoths,
sabre-toothed tigers,
wolves, birds and more
since the Pleistocene
epoch (40,000 years
ago). Blackened fossils
have been extracted
from the site since
1905, and the work
continues today.
I/ Uniknya, di tengah
LA terdapat La Brea
Tar Pits, danau
prasejarah yang masih
menggelegak dengan
tar lengket yang telah
menelan ratusan
mammoth, harimau
gigi pedang, serigala,
burung dan banyak
lainnya sejak era
Pleistosen (40.000
tahun yang lalu).
Fosil di situs ini telah
diekstraksi sejak 1905
sampai sekarang.
Stay
superstar cars – Bugattis,
Lamborghinis and Ferraris frequent
the parking bays day and night –
as it is for their glitzy drivers.
At the top of Rodeo Drive are the
Four Seasons Beverly Wilshire
(the hotel in Pretty Woman) and the
Beverly Hilton, which has hosted
the Golden Globes for the past 50
years. In true Hollywood style, the
hotel opened to great fanfare with
red carpets, uniformed brass players
and pink-painted elephants.
Drive along the Sunset Strip, past
the Boa Steakhouse on the corner
of Cory Avenue, and enter the
musical heart of Hollywood. Famed
nightclubs such as the Rainbow,
Whisky A Go Go and The Viper
Room have played host to
generations of music legends.
You’ll find more of the same
laid-back attitudes all the way
along Sunset Boulevard at the
Old West-themed Sassafras
Saloon on North Vine Street.
North from here, Hollywood’s leafy
cul-de-sacs and lollipop trees begin
to stretch out, climbing up and over
Mulholland Drive, before cascading
down into the San Fernando Valley.
Prime Hollywood real estate, this
area is a honeypot for the mega rich
because of its privacy, space and
gorgeous nightly views of
the city as it twinkles and glows at
dusk. Stargazing takes on a different
meaning in Hollywood, but on
Mulholland they arrive like
constellations.
As night falls, park up above
the Greek Theatre on Mount
Hollywood Drive to see the sun
drop west of Malibu into the Pacific
Ocean like a coin into a slot. Your
lungs full of fresh air, you may feel
inclined to twirl and tap-dance like
the stars of ’La La Land’. Or you may
be content to soak up the cityscape
and peer across to Downtown LA.
A motherboard of skyscrapers,
business headquarters and hotels,
its streets are reminiscent of a
colossal film set and it’ll feel
like an old friend.
Perspective: that’s what a trip
to Tinsel Town gives you. Sure,
Hollywood is superficial, existing
as a tangle of contradictions, but
it’ll always lift you up with stardust
and a happily-ever-after ending.
“Hollywood is a place where
they’ll pay you a thousand dollars
for a kiss and fifty cents for your
soul,” Marilyn Monroe once said.
It’s a sentiment that seems just
about right.
For more information, visit the Los
Angeles official visitor website,
DiscoverLosAngeles.com.
Petite Ermitage
$$$ – Suites from $398pn
Luxury boutique hotel
between Santa Monica
Boulevard and Sunset Strip.
www.petitermitage.com
Dining
Pinks Hot Dogs
$ – The Brando Dog, $5,80
Legendary food cart on
La Brea Ave since 1939;
there’s always a queue here
for their chilli hot dogs.
www.pinkshollywood.com
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