Our trip to San Francisco

Hi everybody ! 

I Would Like to go to Chinatown during our trip in San Francisco.
The chinatown in San Francisco is iconic, because it's the oldest chinatown in North America and the largest chinese community outside Asia.

It's a fantastic place where we are never bored !! We can go to visit small museums, to discover the chinese culture and temples, as the Tin How Temple the first thing that will catch your eye here is the beautiful wood carving.

We have the opportunity to eat local specialities as sushis, noodles and raw fish thanks to food markets. The inhabitants have a healthy life, they avoid rich food and practise the sport contrary to New York, where we eat rich. It's very pleasant and good for our Health !

Moreover there are lots of shops, tearooms where we can relax and spend a good moment at the end of the day. We can go to a very famous factory of cookies, her name is Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory, They seem delicious. 

Not only it's a lively area with lots of shops but also a natural community.
There are two big parks : St Mary's square and Portsmouth square in Chinatown. Portsmouth is the best we have to go here ! because there are lots of activities wich we can make as the taï-chi, dance, play chinese checkers, have a nap on the lawn, make a jogging. It's fantastic.
On top of that, We can go to visit the island of alcatraz which is situated in 2,5 kilometers from San Francisco, and to see the celebre prison where there are the most dangerous murderesses, it is fascinating!

I choose to go to Chinatown because it's a tourist place, where we can discover cathedrals, statues, architectures famous and a new culture in the centre of San Francisco. Furthermore it's a peaceful district, with numerous natural reserves, where we feel good. People seem cheerful, friendly and nice, we can hear music, iconic sounds in streets. It's amazing and cool !
 It's an attractive place !

Are you interested ?
I look forward to hearing from you.
See you later !

Hi everybody 

I agree with you Coralie and Nicolas ! Chinatown is a beautiful  and dynamic neighbourhood to discover an other community and the chinese culture ! And cable cars shapping the city with cables and bells bring animation with their sounds

I will add the amazing Golden Gate Bridge:)
This bridge is in the center of the famous city of San Francisco in the USA. I think it is interressant to visit this bridge for a school trip !
The mythic Golden Gate Bridge was inaugurated in 1937. There was a story with this bridge about his colour. Everybody thinks is gold (in deduction with his name) while is orange in the reality... It's so funny because the US navy paint bridge in black or yellow like strips for rising. This bridge is so hire !
On this bridge, there are more trafic.
This bridge can be good memories because we can take a lot of photos with this symbolic place of San Francisco. Even people coming few days, visiting this emblematic bridge...
This place can enable us to go out the city and change of scenery. Indeed, this place reminds us to the sea, with the seagulls, the boat and the sea...

What do you think about this visit ? Thank you for your attention and your answer 

Mathilde B.

We should definitely visit Chinatown for us San Francisco trip!

We absolutely have to feel and really understand the Chinese culture.

It will be a really great educational school trip!
One of my friends told me once that this city is so exceptional and it’s so surprising to see the actual community living and breathing.  Peoples are known to be warm and welcoming.

Moreover, it’s not just a city, it has his own soul. Coming here is not just making tourism, coming here is trying special foods like fortune cookies down the street, and test a lot of famous Chinese dishes like Chow Mein or Wontons, it’s listening and feeling traditional music, a kind of rich sounds with Chinese violin for example. But it’s also playing mahjong around the street, an important game for those peoples.
Staying there is this only way to figure it out, what is a warm community who shows us solidarity. We will be able to discover a little place trapped in time, a trip down memory lane to see traditional behavior and costumes.

And for a little break and moment of rest we will have the choice between two exceptional parks: The first one is Portsmouth park, a place were people are dancing, practicing Tai chi and meditation, so we can absorb the atmosphere, and the other park is the St-Mary.

Chinatown is an old town, it gets a lot of complexes, stories and historic infrastructures like “The Chinese historical society of America” at the 965 Clay Street.

Finally, for me Chinatown is the most interesting and fascinating place to visiting in San Francisco.

 What’s your opinion?

Coralie.c