| If you've never been to New York City, you may be | | | | giant community of strangers from different cultures, |
| surprised to know that there is so much more to this | | | | different pasts, and different futures. |
| great city than skyscrapers, lots of people, and really | | | | Most people visit New York with certain preconceived |
| fantastic parades. While it is in fact the wonderful | | | | ideas and certain goals for their visits. Hopefully the |
| people of this city that make it the exciting place to | | | | preconceived ideas will all be challenged and the plans |
| visit that it has become, there is so much more to this | | | | that you have made are flexible. There is so much to |
| city than what you'll see on the television shows and in | | | | do and see that you could go one block each way |
| the news. | | | | from your hotel and probably notice something new |
| New York City is a city full of exciting people from all | | | | each and every single time you went by. My point in |
| kinds of backgrounds with all kinds of hopes and | | | | this is that you need to leave time to experience the |
| dreams of the future and experiences of the past. | | | | wonderful things you won't discover in the guidebooks. |
| You will find artwork here like few other places in the | | | | There is only so much of this city that any one person |
| world, you will see more nature here than in most big | | | | could possibly find to write about. I can imagine that |
| cities around the world, and you will enjoy seeing more | | | | there are New Yorkers that could eat in a different |
| cultures and nationalities represented in the space of | | | | restaurant each and every day without eating in the |
| an hour in this city than most people who live | | | | same one twice in five or ten years. I find it hard to |
| elsewhere experience in their entire lives. New York | | | | believe that a guide book is going to be able to hold |
| City is the true melting pot of the world and the rest of | | | | everything you might find interesting in this city and if |
| America is simply trying to catch up. | | | | you spend your entire visit with your head in the book |
| You will find music and art that is representative of the | | | | you might miss something truly worthwhile. |
| many cultures that call this grand city home. You will | | | | That being said, it is a good idea to make plans |
| experience the sights, sounds, and scents of worlds | | | | according to your budget and the things you wish to |
| that are exotic and foreign simply by walking down | | | | see, I'm just urging you to leave room in that schedule |
| neighborhood streets where people are cooking dinner | | | | for change. The Statue of Liberty is great, but it takes |
| at night. You will hear more languages in one day than | | | | a while to get there and back. Could it be that you |
| you probably ever dreamed imagine and while you | | | | take some photos, buy some post cards and do two |
| may stand around with sensory overload thinking | | | | or three other activities that you could have enjoyed in |
| anyone would be crazy to live like this, most of them | | | | the space of time it takes to get there and back? |
| are looking at you thinking you'd be crazy to live | | | | Plans are made to change whenever |
| anywhere else. | | | | possible-especially while on vacation. I seriously |
| This is perhaps the greatest thing about visiting New | | | | recommend that you reserve two hours minimum |
| York City. You get to experience for a moment the | | | | each day to do something that you discovered rather |
| excitement that comes from living in this fascinating | | | | than something you planned. |
| city. You get to understand what it is like for those | | | | Want to find out about panda pictures, pandas in china |
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| it is like to be alone in a city of millions and yet by being | | | | Bin website. |
| there, being one of them, belonging somehow to this | | | | |