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Travel Blogs from San Diego
Deej and Stains' day at the zoo!
... condors, wolves and so in this area. This is an interesting spin to put on the animal groupings, and makes a change from the modern zoogeographic or family-centric approach that you usually find in zoos. Coming out of this area we found ourselves back with the big cats, and in my favourite part of the whole day, we watched the four month old baby jaguars, Tikal and Maderas, playing for ages. Tikal (named after an important centre in the ancient Mayan region) was ...
Animals, animals and more animals
... right in the heart of a suburb and then bam, all of a sudden, you are in the parking lot and this amazing setting. It is not just a zoo for housing animals, but contributes massively to conservation and protection of a range of species. San Diego Zoo is one of the only zoos in the world to have success with their Giant Panda breeding, they have helped re-establish California Condors, have the only elephant care house that is always open to the public ...
San Diego Rehabilitation Stop
... of the cheaper items on the menu, the way they decided to split the check didn’t help me at all…. $20 later.
Then they showed me the seals at the Children’s Beach. Here I learnt that I should not mention the rest of my backpacking trip so much, when James didn’t appreciate me telling him I saw seals when I was in Alaska. Like it meant his seals weren’t good enough or something… which they were. It was a cool location, ...
May 25, 2012
... spotted a restaurant "Jersey Boys Diner" and decided to give it a try; it was a small restaurant featuring dishes with some relationship to New Jersey, where the owner was from. It was a wonderful meal and we are glad we stopped. After lunch we headed south to the Mexican border, Valerie wanted to see the fence, we heard about on the evening news, we only saw a small section of fence ...
San Diego
... the way back to the
pier so we went down to the bar and ordered a nice Californian Savignon Blanc.
We went back into the Gaslamp District to have lunch and do a bit of shopping
then headed to Old Town San Diego, which is very close to the Mexican border
and has a very Mexican feel to it - Mexican shops, restaurants etc, we had
tortillas and margaritas and explored ...