New York City of Diversity If you've never been to New York City, you may be surprised to know th at there is so much more to this great city than skyscrapers, lots of people, and really fantastic parades. While it is in fact the wonderfu l people of this city that make it the exciting place to visit that it has become, there is so much more to this city than what you'll see o n the television shows and in the news. New York City is a city full of exciting people from all kinds of back grounds with all kinds of hopes and dreams of the future and experienc es of the past. You will find artwork here like few other places in th e world, you will see more nature here than in most big cities around the world, and you will enjoy seeing more cultures and nationalities r epresented in the space of an hour in this city than most people who l ive elsewhere experience in their entire lives. New York City is the t rue melting pot of the world and the rest of America is simply trying to catch up. You will find music and art that is representative of the many cultu res that call this grand city home. You will experience the sights, sounds, and scents of worlds that are exotic and foreign simply by w alking down neighborhood streets where people are cooking dinner at night. You will hear more languages in one day than you probably eve r dreamed imagine and while you may stand around with sensory overlo ad thinking anyone would be crazy to live like this, most of them ar e looking at you thinking you'd be crazy to live anywhere else. This is perhaps the greatest thing about visiting New York City. You ge t to experience for a moment the excitement that comes from living in t his fascinating city. You get to understand what it is like for those l iving there. And you get to understand first hand what it is like to be alone in a city of millions and yet by being there, being one of them, belonging somehow to this giant community of strangers from different cultures, different pasts, and different futures. Most people visit New York with certain preconceived ideas and certai n goals for their visits. Hopefully the preconceived ideas will all b e challenged and the plans that you have made are flexible. There is so much to do and see that you could go one block each way from your hotel and probably notice something new each and every single time yo u went by. My point in this is that you need to leave time to experie nce the wonderful things you won't discover in the guidebooks. There is only so much of this city that any one person could possibly find to write about. I can imagine that there are New Yorkers that could e at in a different restaurant each and every day without eating in the same one twice in five or ten years. I find it hard to believe that
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a guide book is going to be able to hold everything you might find in teresting in this city and if you spend your entire visit with your h ead in the book you might miss something truly worthwhile. That being said, it is a good idea to make plans according to your b udget and the things you wish to see, I'm just urging you to leave r oom in that schedule for change. The Statue of Liberty is great, but it takes a while to get there and back. Could it be that you take s ome photos, buy some post cards and do two or three other activities that you could have enjoyed in the space of time it takes to get th ere and back? Plans are made to change whenever possible-especially while on vacation. I seriously recommend that you reserve two hours minimum each day to do something that you discovered rather than som ething you planned. PPPPP 665
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