Best winter resorts in USA: Miami

Hot girls dressed in Bikini are enjoying the winter sunshine, white spray, lively seabirds and long beach full of life, this is Miami: one of the best winter resorts in USA. Every winter, many rich Americans fly here to avoid coldness.

Miami, a USA city without USA flavor, walking on the road, most people are from Cuba and other American countries, and at least a half of local people speak Spanish......

As one of the best winter resorts in USA, the South Beach should be one of men's favorites: pure water, warm beach and charming Bikini... In additon, the Wynwood District is the world of creative art: graffiti and gorgeous color, maybe mean nothing, just like the sun of Miami, but has been attracting many tourists from all over the world.

The pictures are from here.
Author: Lisa 20151127

The Top 6 Festivals In New Orleans for 2019

Every year, New Orleans parties like no other. The most well-known blowout in Crescent City is undoubtedly Mardi Gras, what if you’re visiting when Mardi Gras has passed?
There are tons of other social gatherings at any given time in this congenial city. Dozens of annual celebrations and galas honor a love of the city’s rich culture, history, food, and music. Nobody does festivals quite like New Orleans. Here are the top six most exciting festivals in New Orleans.

1. French Quarter Festival
Since 1984, the French Quarter Festival has been a celebration of the most lively neighborhood in NOLA. The now famous French Quarter Festival was once celebrated by locals but the festival has drawn so much attention to itself that tourists have caught on. The festival honors the city’s most prized music and food.
Musicians are set up in nearly every corner of the French Quarter, from Bourbon Street and beyond, with 23 stages for local bands to play live music. Music of all genres can be heard, including New Orleans jazz, Latin, funk, zydeco, swing, rock, and more.
Some of the city’s finest restaurants set up booths in Jackson Square. More than 60 booths of food and drink will be set up throughout the French Quarter for hungry festival-goers. There are plenty of activities like photo booths, book giveaways, and crawfish eating contests.
Dates: April 11–14, 2019
Location: French Quarter
Price: Free

2. New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival celebrates the history of jazz music in its birthplace, New Orleans. Visitors of the music festival can not only expect to hear some of the best jazz musicians, but also many other genres of music like gospel, R&B, and rock. The many types of performers make this festival appealing to music lovers of all sorts. It’s no doubt that music is the primary lure of this festival, but there is much more to experience.
The fairgrounds are filled with food vendors that offer hundreds of types of food including traditional Cajun and Creole favorites. There are two cooking stages at the festival that offer typical New Orleans fare like po-boys, fish tacos, and an assortment of crawfish dishes. Along with dynamic music and appetizing bites, creative arts and crafts vendors display unique cultural art, paintings, photographs, jewelry, and more.
Date: April 26–May 5, 2019
Address: 1751 Gentilly Blvd., New Orleans, LA 70119
Price: Starts at $70

3. Oyster Festival
 Oyster Fest is held in Woldenberg Park annually. Every year, local and visiting foodies come to experience the “Oyster Capital of America” and watch professionals execute oyster shucking and cooking demonstrations. Visitors get the chance to enjoy local Louisiana Gulf oysters and learn about how they can contribute to raising money for coastal restoration in Louisiana.
There are two stages, one for musical talents and one for the cooking demonstrations. Aside from cuisine, the all-day affair presents live music from several local bands, arts and crafts vendors, and exciting contests. The oyster shucking and oyster eating contests provide the crowd with plenty of amusement.
Dates: June 1–2, 2019
Address: 1 Canal St., New Orleans, LA 70130
Price: Free

4. Bayou Country Superfest
Country music lovers will appreciate the Bayou Country Superfest that has been held every year on Memorial Day weekend since 2010. This huge country concert has hosted some of the biggest country stars like Kenny Chesney, Keith Urban, Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood, and Miranda Lambert.
The past two Bayou Country Superfest concerts have held a free outdoor kickoff celebration before the weekend begins. There are different ticket packages available to fit a range of budgets. VIP packages include exclusive access tickets, a parking pass, access to a luxurious club, and other benefits like private buffet dinners and massages. The ticket packages and musical lineup have not been announced for 2019 yet, but check their site for the latest details.
Dates: May 24–26, 2019
Location: Mercedes-Benz Superdome
Price: Tickets start at $50

5. French Market Creole Tomato Festival
The French Market Creole Tomato Festival welcomes tomato season every June by honoring Creole cuisine and one of its most significant features: tomatoes. This festival celebrates traditional Louisiana cuisine, local ingredients, and dedicated farmers that provide the city’s freshest ingredients for the delicious native fare.
The tomato-centric celebration provides festival goers with cool attractions like auctioning off the season’s first tomato crops to resident chefs, tomato eating contests, and a Bloody Mary Market.
There are several music stages that offer guests a fun atmosphere, along with cooking demonstrations and free recipe handouts. Food vendors provide some of the best tomato dishes like fried green tomatoes, tomato crepes, Creole tomato and shrimp salad, and tons more.
Dates: June 8–9, 2019
Address: 1008 N. Peters St., New Orleans, LA 70116
Price: Free

6. Southern Decadence
Southern Decadence, also known as a Gay Pride Mardi Gras, is celebrating its 48th anniversary in 2019. The Southern Decadence Festival honors the LGBTQ+ community and the music and culture of New Orleans. The culture of NOLA is open-minded, accepting, and diverse and Southern Decadence is a tribute to these principles.
The festival, held in the French Quarter, includes many events including drag shows, block parties, and bead tossing. Many bars hold events or themed parties during the festival. Festival attendees indulge in the pride and merriment of the occasion with brightly colored clothing, flags, and signage to showcase their self-love and spread awareness. Southern Decadence is one of the most recognized gay pride celebrations in the country.
Dates: August 29–September 2, 2019
Location: French Quarter
Price: Free, but VIP passes will be available for purchase


Read more at Domio .
https://blog.staydomio.com/the-top-6-festivals-in-new-orleans-for-2019/

The best goldfield ghost town in the USA

Bodie town in the USA was founded due to local goldfields, and as more and more people came here to dig gold it finally became a big town in the past. but now it just means the past, over half a century ago, after the last gold mine was closed in 1940, this big town in California, founded for gold seekers has been deserted for ever…

best goldfield ghost town in the USA

Standing in Bodie town, you seems traveling through time, because you see it as it was nearly 80 years ago, ramshackle houses, furniture covered with a thick layer of dust, old muffin pan, rusty cans, dilapidated kerosene lamp… with the help of local government, nowadays it should be the best goldfield ghost town in the USA, or in the world; each year many travelers come to visit Bodie just for feeling the past.

best goldfield ghost town in the USA

In addition to tourists, this desolate and uninhabited town is also a heaven for small wild animals, sometimes wolves, lions or bears come here to take a stroll.

best goldfield ghost town in the USA

The pictures are from HERE.

Best Favorite Disney world is in Orlando

If you want to go play in Disney World and theme parks, Orlando is the best choice, why?

Orlando City owns the most theme parks and best favorite Disney world in the world, all kinds of amusement parks are very popular with kids as well as adults, including Disneyland, Magic Kingdom, Future World called Epcot, Hollywood Studio, Animal Kingdom, Water Park, Universal Studios, Adventure Island and Harry Potter Park and so on, so it need take about 1 week to play at least.

best theme parks for kids

Local Disney is the world's largest theme park with an area of about 62 square kilometers, very rich in entertainment programs, definitely being a colorful and memorable experience. Orlando’s Universal Studios is also the world biggest studios, composed of Universal Studios Florida and lslands of adventure.

best theme parks for kids

How to book tickets and plan your trip?

Of course, online booking tickets is very important, before leaving for Disney world or theme parks, print out the electronic tickets to carry with you, the whole ticket fee for seven days is about US $560 each adult, the below is the official websites for online booking tickets:
Disney：https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/tickets/ 
Universal Studios：
https://www.universalorlando.com/Ticket-Store/PurchaseTickets.aspx?ParkTickets
Sea World：
http://seaworldparks.com/en/seaworld-orlando/book-online/tickets/mostpopulartourist/

best theme parks for kids

Finally, it's the HD map electronic version of seven amusement parks, you may print out in advance to understand the terrain and hot entertainment programs, then make a plan.
http://www.greatorlandodiscounts.com/orlando-maps.htm

The pictures are from Here and Here.
Photographer:  Alicey and Fulangxisiming

A good winter resort in USA: Saipan Island

Saipan Island is a good winter resort in USA:

Saipan sea is colorful in the sunlight, deep blue, light blue, light green and dark green...  you may see beautiful fish scales very clearly, they swim between your fingers... 

Saipan Island doesn't have winter with an annual average temperature of 28 degrees. From May to October is a rainy season, but come fast and go fast, lasting less than 10 minutes, additionally a beautiful rainbow can always be seen after rain. Now i'ts has been one of the best winter resorts in USA, especially good for the travelers who dislike the cold.

When the sun goes down, sea wind blows gently, lying in the sea to see stars, warm water pats your skin, very comfortable...  because of local strong ultraviolet radiation, sunscreen, sunglasses and sunshade, it's necessary to take. Of course you should wear a piece of tight clothes when swimming, otherwise the sun will burn your skin.

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Places to visit in Florida

Places to visit in Florida:

Swimming with dolphin in Orlando city, Sarasota city is the best place for dolphin watching, visitors watch in a boat but can not dive into the water, so you have to go to Orlando city for swimming with dolphin...

places to visit in Florida 

Walking at sunset in Amelia Island, Amelia island’s beach is one of the most mysterious places, desolate and spotted with shells.  On the beach you may also ride a horse, or go on a picnic.
Rafting in Everglades’ swamp, all kinds of canoes, travel through swamps, mangroves and Florida Bay, the travel time ranges from a few hours to a few days. This is a good chance to see wild animals, especially birds.

places to visit in Florida 

Paddling in the mangrove forest in the Gulf of Mexico, that's a lot exercise; or explore the Woolverton trail through a large number of small islands which are home to hundreds of thousands of birds, and pick up shells on the beach.

places to visit in Florida 

The pictures are from HERE, HERE and HERE.

Top 3 hiking trails in the USA

If you are brave enough and in good health, must try the top 3 hiking trails in the USA, absolutely a challenge for backpackers:

The hardest hiking - Continental Divide Trail
4988 kilometers long, it passes through New Mexico, Montana, Wyoming and Colorado, nearly no supply points, and no enough guideposts, more serious is that you’ll meet with frozen snow, thunderstorm as well as grizzly bears, but in Bob Marshall Wilderness you may enjoy the most spectacular Wilderness Scenery.

The coldest hiking trip -- The Ice Age Trail

About 1931 kilometers in Winconsin, you may be here in search of mammoth footsteps, near the Milwaukee river have many geological features after the ice age: drift boulder, potholes etc., some temporary shelters can also be found here. So far only a few of backpackers have passed through the whole trail.

The oldest trail– the long trail

The most ancient long-distance trails with a history of about 90 years, located in Vermont, 438 kilometers long, but there is a rest room every 15 kilometers or so, the best season is from the end of Sep to early Oct.

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Best 9 campsites in the USA

The List is about best 9 campsites in the USA for your reference:

1: The Appalachian Trail is very famous, if want to camp in the hill road, the best place is Roan Mountain State Park,Tennessee. 
2: free camping in national forests: If you love the ecological exploration, camping in the San Gorgonio's wilderness is the best choice. Hiking enthusiasts will love here, there are 12 roads to choose.
3: The Cumberland Island dotted with spanish moss is a good campsite, may camp in Paul Brickhill cliff, but because of the humidity there are some mosquitoes.

4: campsites in California USA: Kirk-Creek campground is located 30 miles away from the south of Big Sur coast in California, where you can watch the sun slowly falling into the Pacific Ocean at the 100-feet-high cliff. 

5: Go camping at the coast, please select the Mount Desert Island in Acadia National Park. You may experience a high-tide adventure, climb sea cliff, or hike along the coast. 

6: Arkansas White River, since the campground is located just within the Ozarks fishing area, trout and salmon make it the best fishing campsite.

7: The Juniperus forest campsite in Catskills，New York, is a family-oriented and open place to relax, you can enjoy a barbecue, partying, and singing in the middle of the night. 
8: Stirling Highway in Kenai Peninsula, Alaska. From the crossing of Stirling to Homer Spit, is nothing but a charming coastal scenery, best to go here in the summer, you may enjoy the world's biggest salmon fishing party. 
9: national forest campgrounds Colorado: USA Colorado National Park has more than 60 campsites, don’t forget to take a fishing rod.

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Top 6 seaside hiking trails in the USA

Like hiking, but also like sea, then try the best 6 seaside hiking trails in the USA:

Andrew Molera Loop in the Big sur scenic spot of California, 14.2 kilometers long, when climbing the mountaintop, you can see spectacular coastal cliffs and beautiful Redwood forest.

Ocean Trail in the Bar Harbor of Maine, runs zigzag up the hill, but as flat as a board, some towering trees stands on coastal cliffs.

Top 6 seaside hiking trails near me in us

Seacoast trail in Oregon, is a remote scenic spot, 614.8 kilometers long, 39%of the hiking trail is along the seaside.

Napali coast trail in KAUAI island of Hawaii, only 17 kilometers long, a beautiful seaside hiking trail, the sea view is very spectacular.

Top 6 seaside hiking trails near me in us

Chimney Rock Trail in Drakes Bay of California, from Mar to Apr, is not only a time when wildflowers are all blooming, but also a good opportunity to watch gray whales’ migration.

Anhinga Trail in Everglades National Park of Florida, less than one mile long, very quiet, sometimes lovely wild animals can be seen.

Top 6 seaside hiking trails near me in us

The pictures are from HERE, HERE and HERE

Photographers: Deng Mingming, .Kuaile and Xueliaidaogu

The most sunny hiking trails in the USA

Hiking in the sun,  enjoy the sunbathing and take good photos:

Sedona located in Arizona, was once voted the most scenic place in the USA, unique red rock, clear streams, spectacular canyons, as well as shining brightly all the year round, even in the winter, so many tourists prefer to come here during the New Year, to hike, bike, climb and camping.

Florida Trail in the Sunshine State is the best sunny trail in US. 360 kilometers long from Big Cypress National Park to Gulf Islands National Seashore. Throughout the year here always owns pleasant weather, green grass and flowers in full bloom... after hiking, you may also go to the seaside to swim.

The photos are from HERE and HERE.