Travel The World While Staying In San Francisco
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San Francisco is a terrific vacation destination for aspiring world travelers who don’t currently have the time or money to actually travel the world. Considered the most European of all American cities, a general trip to San Francisco affords the chance to see a bit of the European lifestyle right here at home. But if you make your San Francisco vacation more focused and plan to visit specific neighborhoods in the area, you can get even more than this European air.
The most obvious neighborhood that you’ll want to see in San Francisco is Chinatown. Visitors often say that they don’t need to go to China after visiting San Francisco’s Chinatown because the experience is just like one of going to another country. The colorful languages, the smells of the open markets, the tall apartment buildings filled with small apartments and the dim sum restaurants all take you away to China.
But Chinatown isn’t the only San Francisco neighborhood to take you away. Visit Japantown to experience sushi boats and the technology and anime stores of the big underground mall. Make your way to North Beach to hear the Italian language and taste the pasta. Go to the small alley way of Belden Place if you want to eat coq au vin and speak in French. Make sure to get burritos and horchata in The Mission and drink the vodka at a bar in Russian Hill.
Each neighborhood offers a look into a different culture, and it is not a touristy look either. The people who live in San Francisco’s ethnic neighborhoods really live, in many ways, as though they are back in their home country. And yet, these neighborhoods exist side-by-side in the thick of tourist traffic, showing off the diversity that makes San Francisco such a comfortable place to travel.