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Car Rental San Francisco / Motorcycle Rental

 Alamo  -  Luxury Discount Auto Rental Company
 Avis
 Budget Rent A Car
 Dollar Rent A Car

Hostels

 HI-USA  -  American affiliate of the Hostelling International network

 TheBackpacker.Net

Hotels San Francisco

 Booking  -  Hotels in San Francisco  -  Hotel Guide San Francisco

 HotelCentraUSA
 USA Lodging
 Hotels.com

Tour Operators / Travel Agents

 ATA Vacations
 Expedia 



 San Francisco Fire Engine Tours & Adventure
Looking for something different and exciting to do ? San Francisco's Fun and Only Spectacular Big Red Shiny Mack Fire Engine. The RED HOT way to tour the Bay !

Travel Guides San Francisco / Related books

 Amazon.com

Transport / How do I get to San Francisco

 San Francisco Airport [ SFO ]  -  transfer time to city is around 45 minutes
 Metropolitan [ OAK ]  -  18.3 km
 Norman Y Mineta [ SJC ]  -  63.0 km

  Airline Tickets / Bargain Flights

 BART - San Francisco International Airport (SFO)  -  Undergound Railway Station

 511 Transit website  -  trip planner, schedules, maps / route maps, fares

 Golden Gate Bridge 
Operating the Golden Gate Bridge, Golden Gate Transit and Golden Gate Ferry.

The city is compact, so you can walk or take a ride on the famous street cars.

 Mapblast! Driving Directions  -  streetmaps etc.
Provides interactive maps and driving directions, as well as extensive information on services and products near a user's address or travel route.
 Mc Nally  -  Route Planner USA
 Multimap.com


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 Travel Insurance 

 San Francisco Convention & Visitors Bureau 

 Alcatraz
Alcatraz Island, which operated as an 'escape-proof' prison from 1933 to 1963. Al Capone, 'Machine Gun' Kelly and Robert Stroud, the 'birdman of Alcatraz,' were among the prison's unsavory residents.
 Cable cars  -  Downtown SF
Cable cars rumble down the west side of the square; try looking down Hyde St towards Aquatic Park, down Washington St to Chinatown and the Financial District, or down California from Nob Hill.
 Downtown  -  Union Square
San Francisco's densely populated downtown is squeezed into the hilly northeastern corner of the peninsula.
 Chinatown
A few blocks north of Union Square is Chinatown. It's a great place for casual wandering through narrow alleys, where on quiet afternoons you can hear the clack of mah jongg tiles from behind screen doors. The most colorful time to visit Chinatown is during the Chinese New Year in late January or early February, with a parade and fireworks and other festivities.
 Coit Tower
One of the city's most famous landmarks, the tower is a prime spot to let loose your postcard-vista voyeurism. The 360° views from here are superb.
 Financial District
 Fisherman's Wharf
Directly north of Russian Hill. Packed with shopping centers, hokey museums and countless accommodations, it's also the gateway for several top attractions (Alcatraz, the Maritime Museum and the Historic Ships Pier). Pier 39 is the area's focal point - it's become as popular with a colony of sea lions as it is with tourists.
 Golden Gate Bridge
The beautiful Golden Gate Bridge crosses the 2 mile (3km) mouth of the bay. Completed in 1937, the bridge remains the symbol of the city despite competition from modern constructions. At the time of its completion, it was the longest suspension bridge in the world and the 746ft (224m) suspension towers were higher than any structure west of New York City.
 Golden Gate Park
Golden Gate Park stretches almost halfway across the 6 mile (10km) wide peninsula, from the Pacific Ocean to the Haight's Panhandle. Apart from gardens (including a flower conservatory and a charming Japanese tea garden), lakes (rowboats, pedal boats and motor boats can all be rented), sporting facilities (including horse riding, archery, softball, golf, lawn bowling, horseshoe pitching and petanque), the park also has a host of museums and an aquarium, making it a useful escape even when the fog rolls in and the temperature plummets.
 Haight-Ashbury
Home of flower power in the late 1960s. Today, the Haight is still colorful, with its pretty Victorian houses
 Nobhill
 North Beach
North Beach is sandwiched between Chinatown and Fisherman's Wharf. It's a lively stretch of strip joints, bars, cafes and restaurants that started as the city's Italian quarter and gave birth to the Beats in the 1950s.
 Pacific Heights
 San Francisco Bay
 SoMa  -  South of Market Street
A combination of lofty office buildings spilling over from the Financial District, fancy condos along the Embarcadero, a touristy gallery and museum precinct around Yerba Buena Gardens and the late night entertainment scene along Folsom and 11th Sts.
 The Marina
 Union Square  -  Downtown
Union Square is San Francisco's downtown tourist center. It's a mishmash of glitzy shops and hotels, flower vendors and homeless people.

Beyond San Francisco

 East Bay
The East Bay communities of Oakland, Berkeley and Alameda spring up across the eight-mile San Francisco -Oakland Bay Bridge, offering a fascinating mix of culture and history. Jack London Square and Village is a captivating collection of shops and restaurants on Oakland's western waterfront. Lake Merritt in The City's downtown corridor is ideal for jogging enthusiasts and midday daydreamers. Berkeley, a well-known liberal stronghold, is home to the University of California, offers unique shopping, trend-setting restaurants and world-renowned cultural and performing arts.
 Marin County  -  north of SF
Just across the world-famous Golden Gate Bridge lies Marin County, a hill-coated haven combining the quaint and alluring with the mighty and majestic. The Alexander Avenue exit off Highway 101 leads to Sausalito, a charming Mediterranean look-alike nestled along an inviting shoreline eight miles north of San Francisco. Rustic houses cascade down deep slopes to the bay, overlooking shops and open-air restaurants. Ferries from San Francisco make frequent crossings to Sausalito, as well as the nearby towns of Tiburon and Larkspur.
 Monterey Peninsula  -  south of SF
The Monterey Bay Aquarium, Cannery Row and the 17-Mile Drive along Pebble Beach are musts for Monterey Peninsula visitors. Carmel is tucked away under a blanket of trees; its downtown shopping sector resembles a peaceful turn-of-the-century marketplace. A short distance beyond Carmel lies the gorgeous grandeur of Big Sur, a good argument for applying the brakes.
 Tri Valley  -  east of SF
In the Tri-Valley area near Dublin, Livermore and Pleasanton, 15 award-winning wineries make this one of the most accessible areas for wine adventures.

 Children's Fairyland
 Moscone Center  -  Convention Center
 San Francisco Zoo
 PIER 39 Fisherman's Wharf
 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
 Aquarium of the Bay
 Conservatory of Flowers
 Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Museum
 California Academy of Sciences
 Golden Gate Park
 Presidio of San Francisco
 Ghirardelli Square  -  Shopping Area
 Metreon  -  Shopping Area
 AT&T Park  -  Stadium / Arena
 New Conservatory Theatre Center
 San Francisco Symphony
 American Conservatory Theater

 News  -  San Francisco Chronicle

Cuisine  -  San Francisco Cooking

 Historic American Recipes 
Apple-Fritters | Dough-Nuts | Cocoa-nut Drops | Molasses Gingerbread | Common Gingerbread | Election Cake | Indian Meal Pudding | Fried Sweet Potatoes | Sweet Potato Pie | Beef-Stake | German Chicken Stew | Jack Rabbit Stew | To Roast a Pig | Broiled Scrod | To boil a Cod's Head.

History City of San Francisco

 History San Francisco [ Wiki ]
Contents : Precolonial history San Francisco, Arrival of Europeans and early settlement, 1848 gold rush, Labor, Paris of the West, 1906 Earthquake and Fire, Reconstruction, After rebuilding, Period after World War II , Urban renewal, Counterculture, 1980s: "Manhattanization" and Homelessness, 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, 1990s dot-com boom, Post boom, Historic Populations.

 America Hurrah!
 J.B. Monaco  -  photographs by JB Monaco (1856-1938)
Old San Francisco, 1906 earthquake and fire.
 Prelinger Collection at archive.org  -  Videos of San Francisco
 San Francisco History Index 
 Shaping San Francisco
Shaping San Francisco is an ongoing multimedia project in bottom-up, participatory history... recovering lost history and sharing the story of daily life in the City by the Bay.

 Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco
 San Francisco Cable Car Museum 

 National Park Service - Links to the past
Explore America's cultural resources - buildings, landscapes, archeological sites, ethnographic resources, objects and documents, structures and districts.

Music, Arts & Culture, Events & & Entertainment

 Culture of San Francisco

 SFMISSION  -  Music, Restaurants, Entertainment, Galleries, Theatres, Bookstores

 List of San Francisco Bay Area festivals and fairs

 San Francisco in popular culture

Web Portal / Search Engine / San Francisco Directory

 SanFrancisco.com - The Complete Guide to San Francisco, California
 SFMISSION  -  SF Guide
 Things to do in San Francisco 
One of the USA's most attractive cities, San Francisco's hilly streets provide some gorgeous glimpses of the San Francisco Bay and its famous bridges. This is a mosaic of a city, a big picture made from the colorful tiles of bustling Chinatown, the gentrifying Mission, gay Castro, clubby SoMa, hippie Haight-Ashbury and faux-hemian North Beach.
San Francisco has an atmosphere of genteel chic mixed with offbeat innovation, and a self-effacing flutter-of -the-eyelids quality so blatantly missing from brassy New York and plastic LA. This is a place that breeds alternatives: it's the home of the Beat Generation, flower power, Critical Mass direct action bike rides and gay pride.
 San Francisco Guide Wikitravel


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