San Francisco

Lima, Perú 8.5.2015

We drove to San Francisco from San Jose in a hour or two. Once it was our last day with a car we decided to drive the Golden Gate bridge and see the Redwood forests in Muir Wood National Park.

Muir Wood was really impressive and the redwood trees so massive. The park was crowded near the entrance but as soon as getting on a higher path we met only few people. We did the 4-5 hours trail and saw many animals including hummingbirds, deers and lizards. The flowers were also beautiful. And the view of the ocean from far up.

In San Francisco we walked a lot and it is quite funny with all its up and downhills. The thing that hit us the most was the quantity of homeless people. San Francisco has the biggest number of homeless people compared to the number of SF citizens in US. And it shows.

We also visited Alcatraz which is good to reserve in advance because it was sold out for few days ahead. Alcatraz was really interesting and does not only cover its history as a prison but also as a American Indian activist history in 1970. Nowadays it is a important habitat for many animals as a national park area.

San Francisco city have a huge bay area with tens piers. Lot of sea lions were hanging out around pier 29. They are funny animals. We walked through Chinatown which was as walking some street in China since it is one of oldest and biggest Chinatown in the world. In the city there is also a Levi's museum and shop since it is founded in San Francisco. The museum is quite small but it is in the building where they used to make jeans and that is now their office. It was quite cool to see 100 years old jeans that looked as the ones one can buy nowadays.

The city itself was nice and even more the people living there. It is an innovative city with a lot of young people. And great food :) This time we didn't visit Oakland and the other areas around, so we have to come back!