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Seattle walking tours

Seattle walking tours

Located in the north central region of Washington, Seattle is a beautiful destination housing the Green Lake and beautiful park. The atmosphere of this beautiful destination is quite calm and cool suitable for the Enjoy Walking Tours Seattle. Earhart Seifried was considered the first settler in this region. He built a homestead covering as much as 132 acre of land in the year 1869 on the north-eastern shore of Green Lake.      

The most elegant feature of this city is the residential buildings which are quite extensive in their variety. Since 1995 the Seattle neighborhood has gone through substantial development process. Many buildings and complexes have been impressively remodeled and renovated. There is a spacious Green Lake library, covering nearly 5000 square feet in the vicinity of this township. It is estimated that the library contained as much as 54,000 cataloged items in 1999.  Later in 2003, the library went through remodeling process and it again was reopened in the year 2004 boasting more enhanced facilities and luxuries of reading its collections.

The great Green Lake has a 2.8 mile path going around it used by the runners, skaters, bikers, walkers and many more. The athletic field is located near the lake and is also used by the local people. People come from different countries to walk around the park and use the lake for different purposes like picnics, swimming and boating.

For the travelers Seattle walking tour can be a great destination for walking. Normally a two hour or longer traipses through the city can give you great joy. There are many tourists’ attractions like Bell town, Pioneer Square, Ballart and many more in the city of Seattle. Ballart is indeed a nice place where the Bell Tower is situated. Marvin’s garden is another place that is enriched with plenty of natural beauties. Pike Place Market is another attraction that is always buzzing all the way. Just consider a quality two hours spending at this place and you can get lost in the huge maze of shops and stores in this uptown locality. Pioneer Street can be considered another attraction where you can see the imposing historic pillar – Pioneer Square Totem.  The Garden China Gate Building is another iconic skyscraper which was constructed by Andrew Willatsen in the year 1924. Consider a visit at Samuel Chin located in 7th Avenue S in the International District of Seattle. The amazing frontage and strange design over here are something that will leave you bewildered all the way.

While in Seattle consider a casual strolls along the waterfront. It is indeed a blissful experience. Visitors start from Pioneer Square and walk till Pike Place Market. The Pioneer Square is considered the significant historic neighbourhood of the downtown Walking Tours Seattle. You can also consider the Fremont District that will give you great experience of walking. However, there you can find many quirky and unusual shops. The walking tour of Seattle will not only allow you to enjoy the panoramic beauty of the place but also help you explore various events and characters that are supposed to be conducive to the transformation of this fledgling outpost.

All these major attractions in Seattle are not only steeped with great exotic beauty but also offer you a great delight and satiate your senses. There are many online travel and tourism service providers in Seattle. You may hire their service and plan your itinerary to make an exotic stay at this beautiful place. You may also consider your family or your friends to take them for this tour. Grab the exclusive package and make sure that the itinerary is well planned in advance. Make sure you enjoy the Seattle walking tour while you visit this remarkable metropolis in the US.

Alaska Blog -XIII – Seattle

Seattle

Seattle

May 31st, 2012
Roberta and I caught the American Airlines plane from St. Louis to Chicago to Seattle, arriving Seattle at 1 PM. I had called and was told we would have to pay for our checked baggage which would have been $45 each since we had boots, sleeping bags, mats, raincoats, and more. I had paid 50,000 miles for each of us round-trip, and we could have gone first class (though the times were inconvenient). So it was a great pleasure to see when we checked in that our baggage was free.

Paulette had arrived around 11 AM and was waiting with her sister Elaine who lives in Seattle and was our host that night. Paulette had come in on Delta, 50,000 round trip on my MasterCard miles. She had to pay for her baggage which was too bad. Paulette had come it early and was chatting with a stranger at baggage. Elaine hugged her, and then hugged the stranger, thinking it was me.

Elaine’s apartment is at the back of a house on top of a hill. From the front street you go down and from the back alley you go up through beautiful gardens. I’d never been to Seattle and the arts and crafts homes just knocked my socks off. All of them were fronted by steep rock gardens. Bungalows, gabled roofs, mullioned windows. They all had porches and decks, the better to enjoy the outdoors.

We went to the market and bought a bunch of flowers for Elaine, poppies, iris, peonies. The abundance of all the flowers, the steep hills, the pretty houses were a delight. At the City Fish Company at the market we bought fresh smoked Alaskan Copper River salmon, caught the day before, to eat the next night on the ferry. Big signs in the market said the salmon run on the Copper had begun May 27. And we were on our way there!

We picked up Julie and Peggy at their hotel. They had arrived in Seattle at 4:30. Peggy knew only Julie, and Roberta and Julie had never met. So we did introductions and went out to dinner. We ate salmon, of course, at Chinook’s at Salmon Bay.