Virtual Tours of Things to Do in California
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Take a walk across the Golden Gate Bridge with virtual tours online.
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Virtual tours of California give a bird's eye view of potential destinations, allowing viewers to capture the essence of the experience before visiting the area in person. With current technology available on the web, you can view the Yosemite Valley in a 360 degree panorama or you can learn about the California Missions and listen to the music played there in the 1800's. You can tour the Hearst Castle online, take a walk across the Golden Gate Bridge and relive childhood memories on Disneyland rides utilizing virtual tours.
The California Missions
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The California Missions are located approximately 20 miles from one another (one day's walk) along the California coastline.
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From Sonoma to San Diego, the California Missions offer beautiful adobe buildings and unique arched architecture, graceful gardens with fountains and ornate Catholic churches, along with historical museums on site. The California Missions were constructed down the West Coast between the late 1700's and the early 1800's, and they tell the story of early California. Spanish explorers, Mexican priests, Native Americans, and European settlers all embarked on this area during the Spanish, Mexican and then American ownership of these lands. There are several virtual tours of the missions online. A Virtual Tour of the California Missions website offers pictorial tours of paths most visitors take inside the mission grounds, maps and descriptions of all the missions. The California Mission Site's virtual tour includes historical photographs and music from the missions, along with links to other California Mission resources.
Outdoor Recreation
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The California coastline affords stunning views.
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California offers outdoor recreation ranging from skiing to surfing. Many national, state, and local parks offer virtual tours. Full Screen 360 hosts a 360 degree view of Yosemite Valley and El Capitan online, and Yosemite 360 offers virtual tours for all of Yosemite's major attractions online as well. A San Luis Obispo company hosts links to web cams on the Central Coast that includes the areas of Big Sur, the Los Padres National Forest, Morro Bay, Pismo Beach and Montana de Oro.
Los Angeles and San Francisco
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Hollywood is a world center for museums, movie studios and art galleries.
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California is an entertainment capital of the world, and many amusement parks and entertainment venues offer virtual tours. Disneyland offers virtual tours for many of its rides, including slide shows and full descriptions of the ride locations, themes and restrictions. Alice in Wonderland, It's a Small World and Peter Pan's Flight are among the rides featured on Disneyland's website tours. Seeing Stars offers an interactive online map of Hollywood Blvd., where one can click on different locations to learn about them. San Francisco Click offers virtual tours of a walk across the Golden Gate Bridge, Castle Crags, the Lacis Museum of Lace and Textiles, Fisherman's Wharf, Embarcadero Center, Golden Gate Park, Alcatraz, Muir Woods and the Shasta Dam.
California Virtual Tour Indexes
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Whether you stay on the coast, or travel inland to explore deserts and forests, California has something for everybody.
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Destination 360 offers virtual tours for many California destinations including Hollywood, the Hearst Castle, Palm Springs, San Francisco, Monterey, ski resorts and theme parks. Virtual Tourist offers virtual tours of 50 California cities, offering photos, maps and lists of local hotels, activities, customs, tourist traps and warnings, transportation, sports and shopping information.
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