Name: 目的地特價。舊金山 (Destination Special: San Francisco)
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San Francisco’s airport is not the scariest in the world.

But if you’ve never flown there before,

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you might find yourself trying to remember where your life-jacket is.

San Francisco is a bit bigger than Frankfurt and a bit smaller than Cologne.

Along with New York, it’s one of America’s most iconic cities,

and its economy is based on tourism, banking and technology.

“San Francisco” is Spanish for “St Francis”, and hints as the city’s origins.

18th-century Spanish settlers sought to convert the natives to Christianity,

and in 1776 founded La Misión de Nuestro Padre San Francisco de Asís,

popularly known as “Mission Delores”.

The original building was replaced by this one in 1791,

and it’s San Francisco’s oldest surviving building.

The church next door is much more modern:

it was built after a previous 19th-century church was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake.

the first church west of the Mississippi to be designated a basilica.

But it was the Gold Rush of 1849 that really made San Francisco.

Within one year, the population rose from 1,000 to 25,000.

And with so many people arriving to find their fortunes, banks were founded,

To this day, the finance sector is one of the city’s most important industries.

San Francisco is located on a peninsula at the entrance to the San Francisco Bay,

The Embarcadero stretches along much of the eastern and northern coastline,

a series of piers where boats could dock.

at the end of Market Street, San Francisco’s main thoroughfare.

Although the terminal building is now used for shops and offices,

Most of the piers, of course, are now used as offices, warehouses or parking lots.

Pier 27, however, has been transformed into a terminal for cruise ships.

converted in the 1930s into a shopping centre

with an unusual attraction: a double-decker carousel.

The kitsch factor might be a little high for some people’s tastes,

but Pier 39 is popular with the tourists,

and is also popular with visitors of a different kind.

After the 1989 earthquake, sealions discovered one of the pier’s docks

Although they normally avoid humans, they seemed quite happy here,

and have become a tourist attraction in their own right.

There weren’t many this year, as the water is too warm for the fish they usually eat,

but some years there can be several hundred of them.

Behind the Embarcadero is Telegraph Hill.

The tower on its summit, Coit Tower, was built in 1933,

but before then there was a semaphore signalling tower.

When a ship entered the Golden Gate, the signals could be set

to show whether it was friendly, hostile or in distress.

The city’s famous Chinatown also had its roots in the second half of the 19th century,

beginning with railroad workers, who tended to be Asians, settling down here —

mostly because, at the time, it was the only place where they were allowed to settle.

Today, it is one of the largest Chinese communities outside of Asia,

and another of San Francisco’s major tourist attractions.

Much more recently, a Japantown grew up a little way out of the downtown area.

In the 1960s, whole blocks were demolished

to make way for a new expressway and the new Japan Center.

Perhaps I just visited on the wrong day, but I personally feel

that the Japanese community deserves better than this unlovely concrete plaza;

It’s also a little confusing to be a place called “Japantown”,

But just a few blocks away, old San Francisco is still intact.

This houses are not Victorian style, but Victorian-era:

with elements borrowed from a variety of different times and places.

It was about this time that San Francisco looked with envy at New York’s Central Park,

The result was the Golden Gate Park, one of the world’s biggest urban parks.

so that at any given time of year there was always something in bloom.

The Shakespeare Garden contains all the plants mentioned in Shakespeare’s plays,

but when I was there it was booked for a wedding.

The Golden Gate Park also has its own surprising carousel:

perhaps the most British of all sports, bowls, is played here.

The growing city needed a way of transporting large numbers of people

to wherever they needed to go; but there was a snag.

San Francisco is very hilly, but the streets are laid out in a grid.

This means that many of them are simply too steep for horse-drawn vehicles.

It grips a permanently-moving cable, which then drags it along.

Only a few lines are left, but these are preserved as a tourist attraction.

In the 1980s, the system was shut down for a couple of years for renovations.

For the sake of the tourists, historic streetcars

from cities across America and even around the world

were operated along Market Street and the Embarcadero.

This proved so popular, that not only are these trams still running,

they, like the cable cars, are part of San Francisco’s official public transportation.

Modern trams also run in parts of the city.

But when they reach Market Street, they go underground,

forming a metro system very much like a German stadtbahn.

This is supplemented by the Bay Area Rapid Transit system,

which also runs underground through San Francisco, exactly like an S-Bahn.

In fact, local public transport is pretty decent.

But where Germans would be disappointed is long-distance travel.

While Frankfurt has two major stations and a third at the airport,

from where high-speed trains whisk you away to all parts of the country,

San Francisco has the Caltrain terminal, for local services to San Jose.

The nearest Amtrak station is on the other side of the bay, in Oakland.

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