Santa Monica Beach
A beach suburb of LA with a amazingly long stretch of pristine beach. The sight of Santa Monica and Venice beach are enough to want to make you relocate your life to that part of the world.
Muscle beach is a spectacle dependent on when you go there. We went to both the Santa Monica muscle beach and the more populous Venice muscle beach home to where Arnie used to train. The pictures below are from a mix of the two beaches. We had a showman doing his workouts and he treated the crowds to some muscle ups and handstands on the bars. Very impressive!
The whole LA activity scene got me really excited as this is the kind of place you want to be with access to all possible types of activities you may want to do. This place was very similar to the lifestyle you encounter in the Australia and South Africa (Cape Town).
As with everything LA - even a photograph cost money. So be careful the many with the insanely strong fingers doing the pull ups asked me for money. Obviously being of a more fiery nature and not used to being spoken to like that I told him where to go and did not take any more photographs!
Griffin Observatory
The other common thing to do is the Griffin Observatory, essentially this is a view point over LA and best visited at night so that you can see the city lights. They close the observatory religiously so you you will equally have to observe the times. There is along windy road up to the observatory and there are car parks at the top and people park cars on the road up. Note they actually close the road up to the observatory so do not assume that if you've parked on the road you're safe.
As something to do in the evening the view are worthwhile
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