Myself & 3 of my colleagues decided to end 2009 in a trip. & this time the trip was to Disneyland , Hollywood & Vegas.
we started of on 28th Dec morning from Provo & headed towards Disney land .our 1st destination..
En route we came across a fort called.. cove fort which was located between provo & vegas,this place had an historical importance & we decided to break here & visit this place..
Though a very small place..the people here were very friendly & they took us around the fort real quickly & expalined us what ever they could in the short time..It was freezing cold there & we could not withstand it more than 30 minute.
We ran back to our car after that & then took our breakfast which we had carried.After relaxing for a couple of minutes we again started towards LA..
INFO:-This place is around 120 miles away from provo towards vegas.Big sign boards on I15s will guide you to this place.
From here it was around 9 hours of continous driving before we reached Disney land.We stayed @ super8 hotel in Disney DR.The rooms were pretty decent for the money paid & it was close to the disney parks.
After a couple of hours of tea,coffe & chit chat,we decided to head towards the famous Hollywood walk of fame.it was almost a hour & half drive from Disney land.
& then on that night we walked on some of the greatest names of hollywood.
The next day we decided to start exploring Disney land fully..my friends decided to cover both the Disney parks namely the Disney land & the Disney adventure park.Myself not being a big fan of the adventure rides decided to stay out of the adventure park .
INFO:-don’t forget to checkout passes for these parks..The passes come with multiple entries to these parks & are much cheaper too..Southern california pass is a good value for money though…
Being a holiday season the park was literally over crowded still i managed to cover almost every thing in Disney land.
I had returned to my childhood days & was running around on different rides.I had never had so much fun in my life..around 9:30 in the night the sky was lit by Disney’s special holiday fireworks which was an amazing experience.
After these spectacular fireworks it was time to enjoy the beauty of the castle standing silhouetted against a dark sky.
That marked the end of tiring but a very beautiful day…
30th morning we woke with Hollywood on our minds..It was the day when we were visiting the famous universal studios..
The traffic on that day got us 3 hours late to our destination
INFO:-Try to reach around 9:00 & if late cover the lower part of universal studios first & then come to the upper level.Usually all tourists will be stuck at the upper level & thats when all the rides on the lower level will be free.
The first show we watched was the shrek..the 4D experience of this show was amazing..This was followed by the studio tour were they took us through different location.A slight drizzle ruined the entire fun of this trip & i could not capture any snaps which are worth mentioning during this studio tour.
After the studio tour it was time for us to watch their other shows.AltogetherIt was a wonderful experience.
31st we were returning back to Vegas for celebrating new year in Vegas..but we seldom knew that this day was going to be our most tiring day of our life’s..
While returning back we visited a near by beach called newport beach..
INFO:-If you are not used to directions,don’t even think of coming to LA without an GPS assisted car.even though we had GPS we were lost a couple of times.
after spending some time in this beach we left for Vegas & reached vegas around 6:00 in the eve…
we stayed @ Arizona charlie hotel in vegas which was a bit far from the strip
INFO:-look out @ vegas.com for deals on hotel & try to get a hotel near by the strip
we went straight away to the hotel that day and around 7:00 in the night we returned to the vegas strip.We expected rush on the streets on that day but what we got was 10 X of what we expected..The entire US was on that strip & what a crazy crowd..we almost escaped a stampede on the new year..
But still somewhere we enjoyed the craziness & on the 1st around 3:00 am we returned back to our hotel to grab some sleep & to give our paining legs some relief.
On that day around 10:00 am we left Vegas & reached back in Provo safely around 7:00 in the night.
That marked the end of a beautiful year & start of a even wonderful one…
See the complete pictures of this trip here….
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