Los Angeles

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The two and half days at the beginning of our trip were just enough time to see Hollywood and Beverly Hills, to grab a lunch in Little Tokyo and Chinatown and to visit the still cool (as in temperature) beaches in St. Monica and Venice. On the way back at the end of our roadtrip we drove along Mullholland drive and had some night view. LA was however constantly under fog, so pictures are not very nice:-/ We also visited two interesting museums

• LA, Hollywwod, Beverly Hills 90210, etc...
• LA downtown is not so impressive...
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• Skyscraper
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• Funicular similar to the one at Petrin;-)
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• This is our car;-) To explore LA by car is really useful.
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• Mulholland drive is basically a very very long road winding through hills above LA (on the way back we drove from No 32000 down to 6000)
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• LA from viewpoint at Mulholland drive. Visibility is bad due to smog:-(
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• Trying to zoom through with small success
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• Walk up to the viewpoint
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• Hollywood sign was not visible very well, at night it got a little bit better, but still nothing special
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• Nightshot of LA
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• Warner Bros studios
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• And this is Hollywood
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• The pavement with stars was a disappointment, we expected some broad pedestrian boulevard, but it's just a street like any other, with stars at the sidewalk. Nothing special, really...
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• Tom Cruise's church
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• Souvenirs, trinkets, etc...
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• Here you can take picture with Hollywood sign without actually going there;-)
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• The entertaining thing are street performers like this Spiderman
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• Guy with a huge parrot like in the Pirates
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• It's just before Pirates III premiere
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• Cinderella making balloon-animals
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• Movie money: buy hundred bucks for three!
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• Donald Duck was here exactly 23 years ago - Today is May 21 too!
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• Now move on to Beverly Hills
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• The pink Beverly Hills Hotel built in 1912, many celebrities like Marlene Dietrich, Humphrey Bogart or Katharine Hepburn stayed here
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• University of California in LA has its campus in BH
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• Some people prefer practical lemon tree in their garden...
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• ...others might chose the beauty of Magnolias
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• Signature mailbox
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• After a long day, an American dinner comes handy;-)
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• Food market in downtown LA
• What will I try today?
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• Something Mexican: taco
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• Chinese food = Comida China. You must be bilingual here or you lose half of customers
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• all sorts of nuts...
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• ...and fruits too
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• Little Tokyo
• It's called Little Tokyo, although...
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• ...Japanese Village Plaza is the official name
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• Will Shoko feel like home?
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• She might - truckloads of sushi are readily available
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• It's hard to choose which one to get first.
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• Omnipresent japanese invention: karaoke
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• Yamazaki bakery
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• Souvenir shop
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• Cherry blossom
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• Japanese and Czech intellectuals
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• Lonely singer
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• If you grow tired of sushi, Cuban food is right across the street
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• Chinatown
• Chinatown is next
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• Let's get lunch first. Shoko has her favorite meal: fish
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• Local customer
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• China town stretches along one main street
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• It's not much different from Vietnamese market in Prague...
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• ...as you can see;-)
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• But further down it gets more specifically Chinese...
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• ...and prettier
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• Statue of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, the "founder of modern China"
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• Balloons are everywhere...
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• You have to slalom among them
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• Umrellas for protection against sun
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• Head in the middle of some stuff:-o
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• Like little kids...
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• At least you should be mature!:-)
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• Fortune-teller with magnifying glass
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• Old men playing checkers
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• Beaches
• beach at Santa Monica with the pier
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• on the pier
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• ...
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• In LA you need to look cool!
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• Bubba Gump shrimp company - established only after the movie Forrest Gump to capitalize on its success
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• At the beach: you can do many things here, like...
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• you can swing with Shoko...
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• you can roll this to draw some picture on the sand...
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• you can meditate...
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• you can chase sea gulls...
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• you can take picture of yourself...
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• you can surf (BTW, if you notice the pier in the background? It is the Venice beach Pier where the final scene of the movie Falling Down starring Michal Douglas was shot:-)
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• or you can even play in the (really cold) water if you are tough like this girl
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• Looks familiar...
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• This one even has a car parked, let's wait for a while, maybe we'll spot...
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• Sorry, Pamela didn't show up:-) I guess she was already taken by Borat...
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• Imel on a pipeline
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• Kids at Venice Beach Promenade dancing while a guy on the street plays guitar and sings
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• Couple with twins stopped to listen too
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• Chess players
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• Ocenside appartment complex
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• Rail museum and California/Wild West Museum
• We first headed to the Southwest Museum of American Indian, but it is under reconstruction till 2009 or so, so they sent us to their sister museum of American West. Girls at least took picture with this totem:-)
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• On the way we stopped in Travel Town in Griffith Park, which is basically a railway museum, something for Madal:-)
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• There are different engines that ran trains in the Wild West
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• Quite nice, though not too big museum
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• Imel in a train car
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• The old 3025
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• Manually propelled personal vehicles for use on the railway
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• After that we came to the Museum of the American West. This painting depicts the "Spirit of the West" in somewhat romanticized way...
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• Gold panners
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• Indians
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• Desperado
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• Interesting exhibition of guns
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• Don't mess up with me, pal!
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• Sheriff's star
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• Stars can be five, six or even seven-pointed
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• Typical wagon for West explorers included foldable kitchenette
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• California Stagecoach - luxurious upgrade
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• Meat was plentiful, until bisons were nearly exterminated
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• Indians were exterminated together with bisons, this whisky ad shows Custer's heroic charge on the savages :-/ What did they mean by that? If you drink whisky you will become a hero? Or if you drink whisky, you can be easily slaughtered?
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• Famous statue "End of the Trail" by J. E. Fraser from 1915, symbolizing the victory of white man over natives: nowehere to run anymore, the West has been conquered. One of the most popular and most copied statues in US (I can confirm that, I've seen it many times)
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