VISIT PAGE, GETTY, GRIFFITH PARK: DAY 25

Sunday, May 18, 2014....

Entrance PAGE MUSEUM

Morning after breakfast at 10 am, we walked to Page Museum and La Brea Tar Pits.
The La Brea Tar Pits (or Rancho La Brea Tar Pits) are a group of tar pits around which Hancock Park was formed, in urban Los Angeles. Natural asphalt (also called asphaltum, bitumen, pitch or tar - brea in Spanish) has seeped up from the ground in this area for tens of thousands of years.

DISPLAYS AT MUSEUM

The tar is often covered with dust, leaves, or water. Over many centuries, the bones of animals that were trapped in the tar were preserved. The George C. Page Museum is dedicated to researching the tar pits and displaying specimens from the animals that died there.
PAGE MUSEUM - After Ice age excavations, creatures are brought inside the Page museum, Here best fossils are on display and can see  Paleontology in action.
We spend an hour at the museum, Vishwa came to pick us, from there went to Nikhil's swimming classes and back to house.
Anu packed lunch for all and we left for GETTY villa at Malibu, an hour's drive.

GETTY VILLA

The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center in Los Angeles houses European paintings, drawings, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, decorative arts, and European and American photographs.
The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa in Malibu opened on January 28, 2006, after the completion of a major renovation project. As a museum and educational center dedicated to the study of the arts and cultures of ancient Greece, Rome, and Etruria, the Getty Villa serves a varied audience through exhibitions, conservation, scholarship, research, and public programs. The Villa houses approximately 44,000 works of art from the Museum's extensive collection of Greek, Roman, and Etruscan antiquities, of which over 1,200 are on view.
We ate puliogare and mosaranna in the premises and went round the place and spent about 2 hours.
From there we proceeded to GRIFFITH PARK at Santa Monica Mountains.

GRIFFITH'S OBSERVATORY

VIEW OF HOLLYWOOD HILLS

SUNSET FROM THE PARK

Griffith Park is a large muncipal park at the eastern end of the Santa Monica Mountains in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. The park covers 4,310 acres (1,740 ha) of land, making it one of the largest urban parks in North America. It is the second-largest city park in California.
The GRIFFITHS OBSERVATORY which sits atop the southern slope of Mount Hollywood, was featured prominently in the 1955 classic "Rebel without a cause."
We stayed even after 8pm, when it is still not dark, and had food at Indian Kitchen hotel.

Hollywood Walk of Fame

Nikhil enjoying street attractions

Afterwards we went to see HOLLY BOULEVARD.  Hollywood Walk of Fame,  is one of the most well known attractions in the entire city was created in 1958 as a tribute to artists working in the entertainment industry.
After having some ice creams returned home.
written Saturday, 31st May 2014, Bengaluru